Civil War

 Jack, Brian, & I went and saw the opening of Civil War at the Spectrum...we had a great deal of fun taunting the Team Cap fans and taking our pictures with the standees...

 Jack nailed it--my hatred of Scarlet Witch & love of Hawkeye's bow is captured well in this photo.

Brain also nailed it--flipping off the Juicers while joining Team IM with fire and vigor.

We picked up the collectable cup & metal popcorn container.

 We played Magic in the VIP section.

It was a really fun time--felt like a return to a great time that Brian & Jack used to have...

International TableTopDay 2016 Recap

International Table Top Day 2016 was not the huge hit that previous years had been--Team Schwarm had trouble finding shops that were actually particiapating this year--things just did not seem to be as organizied and it was not clear how to make chartible donations--rather then a celebration of table top, this year felt more like a promotion of Geek & Sundry which is not a bad thing at all, I really like the stuff that they do, but not what I was hoping for--I am looking for a global game day, which maybe is not the goal of TableTopDay?

In any event, we started with the game that started it all--Tsuro!

Cody like the Dragon's in Tsuro by the Sea and once again defeated me.

This lead directly into a game of Pillow War

which may not be a TableTop game, but is clearly one of the big games for us these days.

Next we played some X-Wing

We do not have enough ships OR enough understanding of the rules to really make this fun--we just fly around and blast each other--which is good, but not great.

After three table top games at home we went to Kingslayer Comics. KSC was doing more Magic-the Gathering Gameday stufff--scheduling TableTopDay and MtG Game days should be avoided in the future.

We started up a quick game of D&D

Continuing the game that Cody and Josh have been playing

I had a quick set up of the Kings Chamber, the Encounter with the Giant, the Kobold Betrayl, and the Princess Corruption--we got to the Giant before the kids got hungry and we left for food.

There were some fun Crits and some fun Fumbles

And we played with Travis, the shop owner's kid who was named Logan and really loved the Harry Potter pregen I had printed from Geek and Sundry Site.

After this we headed to Dice House Games! 

Tuan was on Fire--the shop was packed--but they had no TableTopDay stuff--evidently ~800 shops signed up & only 50 got boxes of promo stuff.

Jack and I drafted Shadows over Innistrad--sight unseen!

We had never seen the cards at all-we listened to Judge's Corner and Wedge on the drive down to figure out what was up...

I played a blue white spirits deck which did not really work.

 This was the only thing I won all night.

But it was great to be back at the best game shop in California playing Magic.

International Table Top Day 2016

This year for International Table Top Day, which may just be Tabletop Day, I plan to run some D&D for Cody and his seven year old friends in the morning.  In the afternoon play some Magic.

I am likely going to be doing all of this at Kingslayer Comics.

Enter the Battlefield

I watched this on YouTube last night & thought it was totally excellent. The Patrick Chapin stuff was my favorite stuff by a lot--but I also liked the Peach Tree Oath and the Melissa stuff. A really strong documentary with some great family moments & an amazing narration by Wil Wheaton.

Totally worth checking out.

Kingslayer Magic League

Shadows Over Innistrad Game Day

Magic: the Gathering Duel Decks

Jack & I Return To Magic

Jack & I sat down to play some Magic the Gathering last night

I am running Blue this Block and was all fired up with my All Jace All the Time!

Cody joined us playing his latest Pokemon Deck

Jack was ready to roll with a fairly well thought out deck

I was playing all the Blue cards we got from the Fat Pack--which is really really bad strategizing, for the record

March Madness

Muffins were out for Magic!

Matt was there....

Jack was there...

Andrew stopped by late to finish off the food...

The rest of Tuesday was missing in action...

We did have a rules question on Ugin's -X effect

and his ability to effect the Hex Proof Fleecemane Lion.

We ruled that FL would be exiled because he was not targeted.

Post Prerelease Planning

Tuesday morning is here again & that means 8th Graders playing Kitchen table Magic. Jack was ready for school.

I had my coffee ready

My Dice

And my cards

The boys posted up--Jack is still working to break the meta on the post Dragons of Tarkir world. Andrew has the story down better than anyone else these days.

Derek played a few massive monster games against Andrew that were fun to watch.

 Preston crushed me with his Deck--my Abzan team just could not close.

Even with the Emo King on my side
  

Always sad when Garruk ends up in the yard.

It was another fun week full of great Magic Fun--we are in the planning stages for Release FNM & a Game Day event at Monsters and Magic.