Today, with my Gamin' Pal, I played...

Dungeons & Dragons: Adventure Begins and Rise of Tribes.

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D&D: AB was billed as an intro to D&D games. It was fun. It was my first exposure to any type of D&D game. But, one time I was supposed to make-up a riddle to which the answer would be 'darkness'. Make-up a riddle? Are you fuckin' kiddin' me? I can 'make-up' many questions, but not a whole lot of riddles. The only riddle I know is, 'What's black 'n white and read all over'? But me making-up a riddle wasn't gonna happen in any reasonable amount of time. But other than that, it was fun. I sometimes had to verbally describe how I was going to neutralize foes with what was in my backpack, which included: A Ball of Yarn, a Crowbar, a Grappling Hook, and Chains and a Lock. I was 'Dean Koontz' brutal in the description of my attacks, which delighted my GP (Gamin' Pal). 🙂

Rise of Tribes was more 'thinky', but not brain-burning. The dice-rollin' mechanism was quite interesting. We laughed a lot, and I think I only dropped 2-3 F-bombs during the game. I'm becoming so angelic. Hey, I went to an all-boys High School (~2,000 of us) then into to the Army a year later, so F-bombs are ingrained into my vocabulary. 😄

P.S. My high school was 'poly-technic'. Welding, aviation, building construction, automotive, even a foundry! It was a really cool High School. Having no girls helped me concentrate on academic studies, too, instead of animal husbandry thoughts. 😄