(personal/writing/to-dos) Thump.

[vg_ford]

That, my friends, is the sound of Val falling back into the world after a heck of a morning. Actually, after a heck of a weekend.



Friday night, watermelontail came up and we made Ember Day Tarts. Yum! I'll post recipes later. Suffice to say, they are yummy, but I need to do mine (when I make them for me) with shallots rather than onions, and chopped fine. Just a personal preference.

Saturday was writer's group and then a surprise bachelorette party for aishabintjamil and peragrine. LOTS of food: I did a honey-glazed spiral sliced ham, the Ember Day tarts, Meatballs for the Convent, and Cheese Puffs. Why yes, I was trying out recipes. :) They all went over well, and we learned a valuable tip - serve the cheese puffs cold. They're pretty bland hot.

Sunday was meatball day. Mom, Dad and Mike came over and we made 378 meatballs (yes, we counted. Mom and I are like that.) I have to make about 2 lbs more of the meat, so I'll be doing that this week. My freezer was delivered and chilled right down, so the meatballs are in there as we speak. This week sometime, I'm SO going over to Yankee Food Market and getting some meat to fill it.

Also, we started making some characters for a new game. Yep, ready for this?

Second edition AD&D.

I will pause whilst you youngsters scratch your heads, and the older geeks nod in recognition.

Yep, we're playing AD&D. None of this new crap for us! argus7hills is running a cleric, I've got an elven mage (I know, I know), Dad's playing a half-elven ranger and Mike's got a paladin. We've got one, maybe two more slots open if folks want to play - it'll be once a month, on a Sunday. Let us know.

No real writing, obviously. I did write a lovely scene between Nikki and Teraisa that has been yanked in favor of violence. :) We will see the loveliness later. Just not now.

Wow, this got long. I'll do my to-dos this week in a different post.

Comments

[caitlindancer.livejournal.com]

Dad's playing?? That's great! Who can you pull to do Glenn's drunken mage? 'Cause, you know it's not a Longstrider game unless there's a drunken mage to wind up in jail. Again.

[vg-ford.livejournal.com]

Hmm, we'll have to work on that. Although the way we were going, I think it's going to be Bri's headstrong dwarven cleric that gets us all in trouble. :p

And yeah, Dad's all excited. Mom is too (gets him OUT of the house!!!). :p

[caitlindancer.livejournal.com]

I'm shocked about bri--really, I am.

Good for dad!

[vg-ford.livejournal.com]

I know you are. :p

[peartreealley.livejournal.com]

Hee! Have fun with AD&D! I'm thoroughly a 3rd edition convert, but I'm waiting for 4th Edition with bated breath in June (in the sense that I'm not ready to move on to the next system; there's still too much I want to do with the old one, not that I'm anti-4th edition), so I understand where you're coming from. Plus, I still run World of Darkness with the old universe ;)

[vg-ford.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I never got into 3rd Edition - too many rules to relearn, I think. My heart is forever 2nd Edition. I'm not even interested in 4th. :p

but yes, old WoD rules!!!

(And to be honest, we were playing ICE/Rolemaster by the time 2nd Edition came out, so I didn't even play that until college. Scary, huh?)

[peartreealley.livejournal.com]

Ultimately it comes down to feeling I got what I put into the game back out of it. I have friends who still play 2nd edition because they know the system, they have all the books, and they don't want to invest in the new systems when they don't feel like they've done all they want to do with 2nd edition.

Which is pretty much why I haven't swapped out of the old WoD yet. Too many stories left.

As for 3rd edition, it was sorta a necessity, what with the SO being a game designer that uses 3rd edition :D (Mind you, I hadn't played D&D for years in between changing from 2nd to 3rd... I spent a while in the WoD in between).

[vg-ford.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can see that. :) Like I said, we're old-school - if I could find enough folks to play Rolemaster, I would.

I'm just too busy to try and learn new systems right now.

[peartreealley.livejournal.com]

That should say 'not waiting...' meh.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Had fun! Have the story that I worked up there now on my journal.

And hurrah old-edition playing! I think we've put down anchors in 3rd ed, because if I wanted to play WoW, I would get an account, and I would probably play a gnome, which is not supported by 4e as a PC race. Jerks.

The tart leftovers save my hungry ass on Sunday.

[vg-ford.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

And I'll email the mods tonight with your info to get you on the group.

[daveybeauchamp.livejournal.com]

so I am still curious who won the Soxs or the yankies?

D

[vg-ford.livejournal.com]

Sox. We took 2 out of 3.

[daveybeauchamp.livejournal.com]

I don't speak baseball. so I am guessing that is good?

D

[utilitygeek.livejournal.com]

How young is youngster? I'm 28, and AD&D2 was my first RPG.

[vg-ford.livejournal.com]

28 isn't young - I'm only 34. :p

However, I got some blinks when I mentioned it in a group of early 20-somethings, and then one of them actually said, "Oh yeah, there WAS something before 3rd edition, wasn't there?"

>.< *sigh*

[utilitygeek.livejournal.com]

Something before 3rd ed...

That's sort of by definition, isn't it?

[vg-ford.livejournal.com]

You would think. ;)

[aislinn-sca.livejournal.com]

Oh, what fun. I have fond, fond memories of 1st edition D&D... 2nd ed was okay too and added some interesting facets to the game. Been a decade or so since I've played though.

[aislinn-sca.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot to mention.... a couple of years ago, my daughter came to me, all excited, to tell me about this "new" game she'd just discovered, and it was, of course, AD&D. I laughed so hard.

"Here dear, let me lend you MY books and dice", I say. Heh.