A minor and unnecessary review of last week

I've done a bit in the last week or so with the copious amounts of free time that I tend to have.

First and perhaps foremost, the RPG I am running seems to be going pretty well, and by that I mean I've only heard complaints about the one time I made them climb the impossible wall.

I also actually wrote a bit of fiction recently. Nothing too spectacular, just your basic human-learns-something-no-human-should-and-goes-bonkers short story in the form of a personal journal kept by the main character. My biggest (and only) fan insists that it is great and that I should write more, but I really don't know.

As it turns out, I'll have to get my siblings real presents this Christmas. Apparently knives are not appropriate for a child, nor is a cutting board appropriate for anyone except perhaps my father. Hopefully I'll come up with something before Christmas Eve.

My professional life remains stagnant, which is to say that I have no such thing.

Iron Heroes

For those who do not know it, I am an avid fan of tabletop roleplaying. For those who don't know what that is, basically I like Dungeons & Dragons and play it whenever possible. So two days ago I get a book I ordered in the mail called Iron Heroes. It is like Dungeons & Dragons (same basic ruleset), but it focuses very heavily on the combative side of roleplaying and very little on the magical side or the conversational side. Like any good video game, the primary purpose is to kill monsters and megalomaniac villains and take the treasure that they have somehow gathered in their lives.

Last night I actually ran a game, and I would like to think that it went pretty well. The berserker tended to steal the show, but that is what happens when you speak softly and carry a big stick (and use it on gnolls, evil dryads, and the zombies that were formed from the bodies of said evil dryads). I like to think that I am pretty decent at this, and hopefully I'll have a chance to do it again some day.