While wandering the dealer and exhibitor halls at Dragon*Con, I came across an interesting booth.  What caught my eye initially was a screenshot with a very distinctive graphical style, something I’ve seen many times before.  It was a shot from a “Rogue-like” computer game.  I’ve loved that style of game ever since I first encountered […]

Last night was a good night at Little Shoppe of Games.  Chad had bought a new game while we were at Dragon*Con, and brought it along.  From everything I’d seen and heard at the booth at the con, Playing Gods sounded pretty awesome, and I was really excited to see it in action.
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One of the things I have really enjoyed about watching my daughter grow up has been seeing her mind get sharper and sharper. I can really see it when we play games together, as we did last night at Little Shoppe of Games. I’ve always tried to make a point of getting and […]

As we were getting ready to leave the Little Shoppe of Games last night, I mentioned to Lane that I had been by Borders before coming out and picked up a copy of Cloverfield. He said he’d been wanting to see it, so I asked him what was on the schedule for Wednesday night […]

We had a really good Family Game Night at Little Shoppe of Games last night. D&D had been canceled the night before so Lane could close up shop early to attend to a friends birthday, so I was really needing some quality gaming.

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Due to changes in my daughter’s schedule, we’re now able to have dinner together on Tuesday nights. This means, of course, that she’s going to start joining me for Family Game Night at the Little Shoppe of Games. She’s been very excited about this ever since we first talked about it, doubly so […]

With both a costume sizing going on at ballet, and unexpected traffic on the freeways coming back, I was running even later than I’d expected getting to the Little Shoppe of Games for D&D night last night. As it turned out, that wasn’t a problem. Gene didn’t make it either, so the guys […]

Last night, Gene didn’t make it to our gaming session, but we decided to forge ahead without him. We joked over the course of the evening that I was carrying his character around on my back much like Chewbacca carried the disassembled C3P0 in The Empire Strikes Back. We needed the character, you […]

After a fine dinner and book buying evening with my daughter, I finally made it out to Little Shoppe of Games for our weekly game night.
I got there just in time, right after Chad and Lizzi arrived, to join in a game of The Haunting House. Lane and Jess already had it laid out on […]

So last night we finally got to start playing in our full metal fantasy campaign.
The adventure brought us together in one of the standard fantasy role-playing tropes: we were hired to guard a caravan. the first two weeks of our trip were completely uneventful, but as we got close to our destination and entered […]