Rick Jones' Journal

my week in geek
Watched:

On tv: Middleman, Dr Horrible & the last episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I talked about Middleman already and the whole net's commented on Dr Horrible. That leaves ATLA. I was impressed with the scale of events, and it was nice that the two non-super-people were just as crucial to Saving The World as the Avatar and the other Benders. When my games get to the epic scale of power, I totally want that kind of BIG BOOM ending.

Movies: Hellboy 2. I liked it. It was incredibly awesome visually, and the story was okay. My only real problem was that The Good Guys repeatedly would stop and let the Evil Thing (on at least 2 occasions I can think of) power up. I don't mind letting the villain get their monologue, but when you give them time for a big FX sequence to start, then you're just letting the FX take over. I kept thinking "Gamers would have squashed that thing before it was knee high."

Books:

Finished the Darkwood Mask. They did pull some surprises twists at the end, and I'm usually hard to surprise. (I'm nigh-psychic with TV & Movie plots, but books have more room to pull fast ones.) I started another Eberron book (Voyage of the Mourning Dawn) which is pretty good so far. Lastly, amazon finally got another copy of Brave Men Run and it's finally on the way to my doorstep.

Gaming: We did Greg's 3.5 FR game again. We turned a CR 12 critter into a wet smear in 2 rounds thanks to our Damage Machine doing two crits against something in his sweet spot of "stuff I'm extra good at killin'" and the paladin throwing all his buffs into one hypercharged attack that also critted. Next week, we're clearing this level and then I'm back in the saddle for Keep on the Shadowfell, part deux. I also started work on an adventure all my own.

Other Stuff Not realy geeky in the traditional sense: Kat, Jack and I went to the Houston Dog Show. Jack liked flyball and agility games, and getting to pet all sorts of very good looking dogs.

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