I’ve spent the past week or so combing through ‘A Monster for Every Season’ resources, so the ‘Order of the Stick’ art style was firmly lodged into my brain for this one. For Dasia’s second (third?) adventure as a DM, a group of us are investigating a spate of missing...
We’ve been running our West Marches-style campaign for over a year now, and something’s become entirely too clear: this is a format best suited for experienced players. Unfortunately (though awesomely), the majority of players at work are new to the game. Where West Marches is meant to be a sandbox,...
Nicole’s primary character – a ranger/druid named Elokin – makes it a point to recruit at least one native fauna during each adventure. Often it leads to some memorable improv: horny British rhinos, a chipper-but-nihilistic grasshopper, and an Australian bull shark named Bruce (naturally) to name a few. During the...
Comedy Sex God by Pete Holmes My rating: 5 of 5 stars Memoirs by comedians are a dime a dozen these days. Most are about comedy through the prism of their career, others are about their career through the prism of comedy. And there’s the rare memoir by a comedian...
At last night’s work D&D game, I took a turn as a player (while Dasia ran her first adventure!). The party is working through the maze that makes up the outer section of a green dragon’s lair. One of the obstacles was a series of puzzle rooms, the main feature...
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried My rating: 5 of 5 stars An excellent book for what it is: a look into different ways of doing things. Not just from a theoretical perspective, but from a company that is thriving. As long as you read...
Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life by Gary John Bishop My rating: 4 of 5 stars Alternate title: “Stoic Philosophy for People Who Don’t Like Reading Old Texts.“There’s not a ton of new material (naturally, given that stoicism has been around for over two thousand...
Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek My rating: 5 of 5 stars I consider this book to be Sinek’s redemption for ‘Start with Why.’ I’m a huge fan of his presentations/videos, but ‘Start With Why’ felt lacking; it was a great presentation-length idea that had been stretched out into a...
If you poke around this blog a bit, it’s clear that I’ve been trying to do more creative stuff in my spare moments. However, I haven’t done any sketchnoting since last year’s Tri-State SHRM conference and – wouldn’t you know it – yesterday was Rhode Island SHRM’s 20th annual conference!...
Tonight we finished up a series of quests that involved Cothynta, the self-styled “Lady of Fire.” Sharry was compelled (by way of an agreement with a powerful efreeti) to close a rogue series of portals leading to the Plane of Fire. Sharry was still fuming as he wound up the...
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