A potpourri of unrelated items for you today:
- The older I get, the further behind I seem to be on what’s hip. For example, I still use the word, “hip.” I mean, what is the deal with Napoleon Dynamite and Superbad? These were two movies that hit it big with the young crowd. I couldn’t get them. It wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy them, or that I couldn’t follow the plot line, or that I didn’t get what the director was trying to do. I just didn’t get them, not in the way that other people seemed to get them.
- Speaking of missing it, how can it be that I’m this far behind on gaming geek stuff so as to have missed DM of the Rings completely until 5 months after it ends? Hell, I wasn’t even that far behind in discovering OOTS.
- Occasionally, I’m in the middle of the curve, if not ahead of the curve. Yax over at dungeonmastering.com has an article today about keeping players focused. This, only 4 days after my discussion of the question here (of course, that was a response to PhilGamer’s post two days prior. I might not have been first, but dammit, I’m not last.
- This all probably makes me in the minority when it comes to gamers who remember Don Adams as Maxwell Smart. While I like Steve Carell, I’m worried about the Don Adams legacy. For your enjoyment:
- Hell, I didn’t get into Heroes until season 2, CSI until season 6, 24 until season 5, and I’m still not watching Smallville.
Or are they unrelated?
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I will tell you this: I think I’m going to be right about 4E. And I’ll be the first one, in my little circle of influence, to do so. I can feel it already; even the skeptics are starting to get a little bit excited. The guys that swore they’d never buy the books are interested; and my fence-sitting co-DM has become optimistic. And for good reason: the folks designing the game are the same designers we’ve been riding along with for the last several years in 3E. Monte Cook left before 3.5; if 3E relied solely on his genius, WotC would have shut the line down by now, because no one would have bought it.
Then again, I didn’t go 3E until early 2002.
Happy Tuesday, all.
