Tea in the Sahara

Well, that was unexpected.

Aaron's LD&DM group got together for the monthly game tonight.  I don't have much of a taste for D&D anymore, so I've started having an alternate game put together for those so interested.  Tonight, I had two players - when the night started.  We began our game, when Aaron asked if he could join in, as it looked like the others were going to skip playing in favor of shooting the breeze.  Sure, I said, no prob.  And then the floodgates opened.  The rest of those in attendance asked to jump in.  Oh, boy.  Crash course in character generation and world history and other setting information.  Got a big group put together.  Quick explanation of how the rules work.  By then, it was getting late.  Asked the players if they wanted a quick and dirty intro followed by a real session next time, or a better-assembled story for the next meeting.  The latter was unanimously favored.  Asked for preferences as to story type.  Unanimous response again.  Much excitement about the newly-minted characters.

So, now, I've got two weeks to put together one bad mama-jama of a game session.  I feel absolutely awesome.

Hot in the City

It sure is.  Summer's holding on just a little longer, after that delicious preview of autumn from a short while ago.

The Raiders finally won today!  They beat Cleveland.  I am pumped.  This has only added to my lingering excitement from last night.

Yesterday saw the season premieres of the CW network's Legion of Superheroes and The Batman animated series.  LSH has aged the characters somewhat, maybe very late teens or very early 20s, and a new Superman from the 41st Century.  The Batman introduced Superman to that series' continuity, and did some role-reversal - Superman declined Bats' invitation to the Justice League (or whatever it winds up being called), making the Big Blue Boy Scout out to be the mildly cranky loner.  The episode featured a lovely little nod to the Terminator movies, too.

Heroes returns tomorrow night, bracketed by a couple of other genre shows on NBC.  The network's also doing a new Bionic Woman series, and I'm starting to think that maybe NBC could wind up being what Fox was a decade or so ago - home to some nifty SF/fantasy stuff that really delivers.  Also, Smallville returns on Thursday!