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As some of you might know, ChattyDM.net is soon to "close" and be merged with Critical Hits - another pretty cool RPG blog. I was goofing off in Chatty's comment board and suggested he get himself an audio bumper for when users switch to his category on the new Web site. Here's what silliness I ended up coming with (click on the "play" button below...):
(I kinda like the "Critical Hits" scream!)
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Here is the list of games I own, I have played or want to play. I plan to upgrade this list with links to descriptions on other blogs and reviews on this blog, as I write them. Games I Own
Games I Played
Resources
Wish Lists
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Wow are things slower than slow around here! People who know me in the net might have noticed my prolongated absence these last few weeks (or have they been months?) Lots of stuff happening in real life slowing this end of my activity spectrum. A large chunk of it is my mom's cancer diagnostic and the preparation for the treatments (surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy) that are to start in a few short weeks. While my DnD playing has just about stopped (my regular group has been tougher to gather), my love of board games has been rekindled. I have also had the pleasure to be invited as a regular player to a game of Star Wars RPG by Franky (one of ChattyDM's buddies) and had the pleasure to be invited at their table during a "Geek Out Day". "Geek Out Day" came not too long about I learned about my mother's condition and was a very welcome event - I absolutely loved the games I played (Chinatown got to be on my "to buy" list) and especially the company I was with. The movie was cool as well. Can't thank you guys enough! :) Since then, I've been toying with the idea of doing some sort of "Geek Out Fridays" - I have a lot of friends who like board games and we all have lots of board games. Maybe that'll be something to blog about :P My soon-to-be-wife, in a successful attempt to cheer me up, planned a surprise "geekout" last Friday and invited all of regular group of friends to play board games - of my choosing, none the less! I had to let go of my planned evening of Dragon Age and instead had tremendous fun playing "Citadelles" and "Le Cercle". Many thanks to my buddies and to my fiancée for the amazing evening! I've also had a request directly from Simon - the boy for whom I DMed more than a year ago - for another session of DnD. He asked me if they would play the same characters and if they would get to level 2. For this blog, it means : be ready to hear my thoughts about board games and some more Dungeon Master prepping (letting go of the training scenario I discussed earlier). All of this sporadically, of course :)
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Just about every time I met up with ChattyDM and his merry group of gamers, we end up playing a game of Dominion. I've taken an instant liking to this game and ended up buying it for myself during the holidays. The game is what I would call a "Deck Building" card game - even though I wrote board game it the title. Three core concepts/ideas make it stand out to me:
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We're adding auto-responder and mailing list to the list of services we offer. While we like to develop everything in-house, sometimes its just great to start a package that has everything. After a few searches on the Internet, I ended up with two most likely contenders - both commercial applications. One is Mailing List Manager Pro, a reasonably priced open-source package that has most of the features we'd be looking for and sports a professional-looking user interface. The other one is Oempro, a somewhat more aggressively priced package (though still quite reasonable) that has just about all the features I could ever want. Drawbacks? The user interface is a bit odd - through light-years ahead of most free open-source solutions available. Biggest drawback: closed source (using IonCube/like technologies). It really is standstill - one is opened, but lacks a few features (proper support of multi-client architecture), the other one has it all, but cuts off from customizing the software ourselves (something that we often get asked). I have a soft spot for the open-sourcedness of Mailing List Manager pro - they seem to be actively looking for new features to add. If the software grows in the direction we are going for, we might be willing to start with less features. So, basically, it boils down to the health of both project - Mailing List Manager Pro lacks a visible forum/community to allow us to see if the project is still alive. Its competitor, Oempro, has it all, and shows us traces activity. I resorted to communicate with both companies - their support will most likely dictate our decision. 3 days gone and still waiting for an answer on both accounts... If any of you know of a solution we should be looking at, feel free to comment (we'll be making our decision this week). We're looking for:
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