Author: Chris S.

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Solo

Except for a couple of days with friends every month, I am a solitaire gamer.

Or solo gamer.

I miss the days when my friends and I would play games almost every weekend, mostly role-playing games like Star Trek or Top Secret.  Nowadays we do RPGs once a month.

Because of this we’re limited to sticking with a given game world or system for a few months, like D&D or Hyperlanes or some superhero-based system.  Meanwhile, other systems stay on the shelves, collecting dust.

Imagine my surprise when I went to drivethruRPG.com and discovered this:

The Cepheus Engine is another name for the classic Traveller RPG system, and this product allows one to play without a referee/game master in any of the existing versions of Traveller.

Like the one that I have at home from Mongoose Publishing.

At 150+ pages, this looks to be a good way for me to play Traveller… Solo.

We’ll see.

*dust off Traveller core rule book*

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Crock Pot Experiments

  • 2 lbs chicken breast
  • bag of diced sweet potatoes
  • 1 cup Memphis-style BBQ sauce

Cut chicken into smaller pieces (1 inch?).  Place 1/2 in bottom of 2-qt crock pot.  Place 1/2 of bag of sweet potatoes in crock pot.  Pour sauce over contents.  Add rest of sweet potatoes and rest of chicken.  Set for high cooking (5 hours).  Every 1.5-2 hours or so, stir contents.  Serve over steamed rice.

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Infinity War

To me, it was epic and it lived up to the hype.

My only complaint was a distinct lack of a helicarrier in this one.

I can’t believe I ate a large popcorn by myself.

Thanos is still my favorite over Darkseid.

I was way off on my ‘death guesses’.

We got a poster and a coin as we were leaving, too.

Peter Dinklage is awesome.

“I am Steve Rogers.”

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Action Hero

Today is the 80th anniversary of the release of Action Comics #1, which of course is the first ever appearance of Superman.

There are accolades galore around the web, saying more about him than I could, but I will say this:

Thank you, Superman, and all his creators, artists, writers, actors over the years, who have inspired me to be the best person that I can be, then, now, and always.  I have always looked, up in the sky.

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Make Mine Marvel!

20 movies in 10 years.

That’s how many Marvel Studios movies there will be at the end of 2018.

In that same amount of time, Star Wars had 3 films, Superman had 4 films, Star Trek had 5, James Bond had 7, and Harry Potter had 8.

The biggest difference between those franchises and Marvel’s movies? I’ve enjoyed every single Marvel film, though some were better/worse than the others. I can’t say that I had the same enjoyment for the other movies in other series.