Sliver Battle Finale

2014 Renaissance Faire.

Jack & I picked up Tom and his Kids and their significant others & headed to first weekend of Faire on Sunday.

First Stop was to get some new Juggling sticks

I picked up a very cheap set for 20 bucks just to have some.

Then we headed over to seen WOW, who is not the not greatest Knot wizard.

He was awesome.

Jack and I shared some Cheese Fries which were amazing

Then we went to the Joust. We were in a party section and it was awesome.

One of the best things I saw at Faire this year was these Bug Wing Ear Wings:

2014 Table Top Day

This year, things started early with some a very close game of Dixit.

Kate won--this is her game and she usually wins. Lisa and I tied.

Then Cody came downstairs and we started some Pokemon.

It took a while for Cody to straighten out his cards & get all the guys he wanted--but Kate was patient.

We have a surprising number of Pokecards.

Cody was off to a great start

Kate stabilized and started to come back.

But in the end Cody was victorious and received the Wolf Throne Trophy! 

Next we headed over to Brookhurst Hobbies

It was super crowded and full of fun--we saw Jace, Mike, Sara, John, Raymond, Henry, and all of the other regulars. It was awesome

We started with some Fluxx--receiving this free promo card:

 and then moved into some very serious Tsuro.

We brought Alexander who played very well.

And then we headed over to Dice House for some Magic Drafting.

Tuan's shop was packed with players--super high energy and a lot of fun.

I got crushed 1-3 playing mono red--but had some fun games. Me and the Emo King ended Table Top Day on a fairly good note:

Actual Play Scourge of the Sword Coast--D&D Encounters S17 S7

Scourge of the Sword Coast--D&D Encounters S17 S7

This week started with Jeff expressing his opinion that the Beatles suck. Unfortunately, I did not catch it on tape, but basically his theory seemed to be that they simply copied other artists--like Jimi. It was amazing & awesome.

But before we could really get to the bottom of things we were distracted by Weird Al...and when I tried to describe the Al Yankovic vs Weird Al accordion issue, I simply confused matters further.

Basically, the perfect start to a game session.

DM Brian was in great form again this week--he prepared with amazing Desert Skittles and ran another combat intensive dungeon crawl--of course, I immediately split the party and had a total blast.

Thor continues his streak of amazing roles playing a fighter ranger. This week he also crushed Jack in Pokémon. Jack argues that he got lucky & may have been cheating...we can only wait for the rematch!

Jeff was on fire this week--great stories, epic D&D'ing and just having a great time.

Richard was a little late this week, but had another great hoodie & joined the boys for Pizza from next door--which he argues is great for the price.

Brandon did not think he was going to make it so he was late. He had to recreate his Cleric again this week--his new name is Francis. He was having a blast.

Jack, besides loosing to Thor & being one shot by a dual halberd wielding gnoll, appeared to have a pretty good time.

I am trying to invent a new photo style called the Floory. Here is a strong example of the genre.

I had plenty of room at the table this week.

 The players are fairly distracted--no one is even sure what is going on in the story.

DM Brian does not take any goofing off at his table.

Our mini's look really good this season.

We ran around fighting a lot of Gnolls.

Richard purchased a tiny die.