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On Saturday, I did one of my favorite installments of my Legion game thus far. The whole group was able to show, and it was a superhero-flavored take on Cthulhuian horror - starring DC's M'nagalah, naturally.

Any game that ends with your heroes luring a giant cancer-god away from a planet so it can be bombarded by an armada, can't be bad.

Tired. Somewhat depressed. Not sure why, as to either.

Had a fun session on Saturday, of my Legion game. Probably should have recorded that one, but ultimately, I didn't feel like making the effort.

Really looking forward to vacation..

Had some massive rain here yesterday! I went to leave work, and I think I saw an ark float by. It had eased up by the time I got home, though.

I need to get my Halloween decorations up. I already bought the candy..

Running my Legion game this weekend. Membership drive time!

Well, I made more reading progress - the next thing on my to-read list is Terry Pratchett's first Discworld novel. And I got to run a small session of my Legion game, and share the movie Gremlins with my friends afterward. Not a bad weekend at all.

Had a nice weekend, fairly easygoing. Did some mini-painting; got to catch up with Matt, a former member of my gaming group that had his free time evaporate due to various personal issues; ate some pizza at one of the best places in the area; got my truck fixed; and least importantly but most entertainingly, I actually finished a novel from my massive 'to be read' pile.

Robert Asprin's Phule's Company. Fairly light read, but entertaining. I have a couple other Phule books and several of his Myth books, along with a pile of Terry Pratchett, and others, still waiting..

I used the free Monday evening to take care of several things - paying bills, cleaning my razor, writing up my Previews order for the month. It was wonderful. I even did a little work on my Legion campaign - I really need to decide if I want to run that, or D&D, on Saturday. Hmmm..

Watched some amateur stand-up comedy yesterday, had a good time.

Feeling kinda tired and run-down today - I wonder if I'm coming down with a cold, or something.

Still really digging my Legion game. Every time I sit down for five minutes, it seems like I come up with some new idea for it.

My upstairs actually got below 70 degrees last night. So nice.

I am concerned about the Pathfinder Planescape game I was planning to become involved in. I have a great character concept that I want to play, and it's my all-time favorite setting - but it sounds like the GM wants to ignore the 3rd Edition conversion of the setting that's already available in official materials so that he can convert the settings (and its attendant rules) to Pathfinder, creating a hybrid of Pathfinder and *shudder* 2nd Edition.

That's like sawing the back half off of your Lamborghini and welding on a truck bed, so you can have an El Camino.

At least some of the rules he's talked about bringing over would torpedo my character concept out of the gate - but unfortunately, he can't give us a list of the modified rules, because he hasn't decided all of them yet. And yet, he was ready to have us start playing yesterday.

I cannot abide the prospect of 'rules in flux' to that degree. The game's rules are the contract between the GM and players that define their relationship - sure, you can change them after the game starts, but you need to have buy-in from your players; and with him, I almost get the sense that there's going to be a different set of house rules every session. Without some consistency, I can't make informed decisions in building my character.

I think maybe I should just back away and take the extra free time I'd have for the rest of the summer to paint miniatures.

.. of Lego Batman 2, that is. Got all the achievements, checked the last box, and done. I've had a surprisingly productive week in terms of clearing out hobby backlogs. Maybe I will get back to miniature painting this month!

No, probably not. But I'll try, dammit.

Running my Legion game on Saturday! Looking forward to it.

I am 75% done with Season Two of Community, and there's only one bad episode so far, so.. that's pretty damn good.

Somewhat to my surprise, we launched my Legion game this past weekend - I put it up for a vote between that and the Golden Age game, and the runaway favorite was Legion, so : allons-y! Some beautiful roleplaying and teamwork moments there - I'll probably gush in greater detail on my dedicated blog for that sort of thing.