Kids Playing Dungeons & Dragons in Parks, Session 1

Cody, Josiah, Josh, and Aiden have started to play D&D in the Park. I am currently running them through this Eberron adventure from the DMs Guild:

Here is some live action video of how it is going.

Wild Wild Country and D&D

There is a Netflix documentary called Wild Wild Country about the conflict of an Indian Guru coming to Oregon. IMDB describes it with:

When the world's most controversial guru builds a utopian city deep in the Oregon desert, conflict with the locals escalates into a national scandal. A true story.

During Episode Two there is discussion around how this relates to the Jim Jones' Massacre in South America--mostly about how there was a strong anti-cult sentiment in the media. Here is a clip (I removed the sound & went with subtitles):


In any event, to demonstrate this "dangerous cult" point the filmmakers used images from the 1st Edition Dungeon Master's Guide:

And Players Handbook (one of D&D's Most ICONIC images):

Both books were written by Gary Gygax and are considered classics. They have nothing to do with cults & everything to do with the creative gameplay--in fact, the DMG is still often cited as the greatest RPG book ever written.

There is absolutely no reason to include these images in a discussion of cults--in fact, it perpetuates a Satanic Panic response which still affects RPG's.

Lost Mine of Phandelver Week 3

Lost Mine of Phandelver

Lost Mine of Phandelver!

 

DM Bill drew some amazing maps



Played some Lost Mine of Phandelver



It was a good night and nice to be back in the shop with Cody

Avengers: Infinity War

Jack, Kate, & I went to Avengers: Infinity War at the Spectrum.

We were in Row C in IMAX which did not sound good, but it turned out to be great!



We loved the film--the "needs of the many vs needs of the few or the one" is a family favorite theme and this film captured a solid unique aspect of that.