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my girlfriend Rita told me the other week that her youngest son joined a D&D school club and we needed to write up a character sheet. we sat and picked a race/class and her youngest Sam picked of all things, gnome barbarian named Hamish. we rolled for stats and filled out all the slots and information for him to play his first legit D&D game. so a week later we were told the person who's running the D&D club is starting the characters at level 3, why i have no idea, you figured new players would start at level 1? so we "leveled up" Sam's character and we played out a small session to get Sam familiar with the basic rules. Breena and Hamish explores the sewers under the city, only to run into a black pudding. from the shadows the a tortle emerges. the ascended dragon, Quirog!   didn't realize how much damage the black pudding, so i added some help to the adventurers. crawling down a sewer pipe, Hamish runs into a Banderhobb. this was a mistake being tha

 spent the last few days painting some more wild west figures. for some inspiration i have been watching AMC's Hell on Wheels television series on Tubi.com which i may add has all five seasons streaming. after going through the Zombicide: Undead or Alive miniatures that i have been painting and planning to use for my western games, there are characters who have come to bring faith to the wild west. i have two characters, two females in some what nun outfits, to finish for this group. the Faithful. Brother Thomas and Brother Winston. Father Luke, holding the sigil of the Almighty and Preacher Paul. "where is William, where did the boy go?!" Preacher Paul asked. Brother Thomas replies "that is William!!" "i guess these folks won't be attending services this Sunday?"

 few weekends ago we started a new campaign of Dungeons and Dragons, with our friend/group member Jon taking the helm as dungeon master. not knowing what or how we were starting this time around was sort of the exciting part for me as a player. with Jon as the DM i left it up to him for the responsibilities of providing us a board to play on and miniatures for us to battle with. and i have to admit way things came out and looked, it gave off an old school vibe feeling. at times i did provide miniatures if he didn't have certain kinds of creatures or terrain features on hand. Jon scratch built tiles using spackle and cardboard with printed tiles. even though they didn't look polished and professionally made, still gave off a good vibes. reminded me of my 40k days back in the late 90's playing on a modular set-up with buildings and structures covered in spackling and putty. as the game opened up we found ourselves locked up with other characters we did not know and our gear w