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From the monthly archives:
July 2006
I wrote a D&D adventure for a game-day event in Gainesville I attended called Mike’s Mini Meet. I was worried about making a “funny” D&D game. Some people take their gaming waytoo seriously and don’t appreciate it when the rest of the players (and especially the DM) do not as well. This can be a particular [...]
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It’s a shame, really. One bad experience, if it’s frightening enough, can shape a person’s feelings about a thing for the rest of their lives. When I was five, I was taken to a dentist who thought he’d save a little cash on Novocain while drilling a cavity by simply telling me to “be a [...]
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Many, many years ago, Mike Jones decided to put together a gaming convention for his friends. He named it not for himself, but for his then-infant son, Alexander Jones, who quickly became the con mascot. The first couple “conventions” were in Mike’s apartment, where his extremely patient wife played hostess to an expanding pack of gamers. Following [...]
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We were in Epcot, clowning around and trying out new things. Lena and I had gotten the Florida Resident season passes for Disneyworld and were burning them up. It was great. We knew we could come back any time we wanted—the only times “blacked out” by the pass were times we certainly would not have [...]
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As I might have mentioned before, I admire folks who have kids and are able to fit them, with love, responsibility, and enthusiasm, into their lives. I admire them all the more because I am not one of them. To me, being a parent is like being a cop. The are necessary, to be admired, [...]
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