Yay for gaming geekage!!

[kellinator]

Today the lovely and talented cadoln took me shopping for gaming accoutrements at the Sword and Phoenix. We were looking for miniatures that actually look like the characters we're currently playing in streamweaver's Arcana Unearthed game.

Initially things did not look good, as Courtney and I roamed the store and discovered very few female figurines (big surprise! See, this is why gaming chicks have to stick together). But then finally we found some Reaper Dark Heaven figures that included females! (The Arcana Unleashed figures look terrific but only a few have been released so far.) We found a few possibilities that we set aside... and then we found this.



She's Martina to perfection! Right down to the sword and dagger. Martina is my swashbuckler, who started life as a peasant girl who ran away from an unscrupulous guardian and joined the circus, where she learned to swordfight. Courtney's going to help me paint her. We're thinking green bodice, purple jacket, mahogany-brown hair with red streaks.

Then Courtney introduced me to sparkly dice!!!

We had waaaay too much fun...

Comments

Re: before anyone else says it

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

You're ALWAYS frisky, you perv!!

[celeloriel.livejournal.com]

That's fantastic.

And sparkly dice RULE.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

You should have seen me; I was having a fit!!

[celeloriel.livejournal.com]

What'd you end up getting?

[blark.livejournal.com]

Heya. Ran across you on my friendsfriends list. I too am a geek and a pop culture junkie. Is it okay that I added you the much ballyhoo'd Friends list? If it's not I'll remedy it directly.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's fine! Welcome!

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

I too have dropped by as a friend of a friend. I hope you won't mind my adding you as well.

So you're playing Arcana Unearthed. How is that working out for you in a campaign format? I was going to run a one-shot here in Chicago at a Games Day this weekend, but I got too sick to go.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm an almost-total newcomer to gaming, so it's hard for me to say, but I'm really getting a kick out of it. I think it's a really cool system. Have you gotten a chance to play it yourself yet?

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

No, unfortunately. Ever since I picked it up at GenCon I've been jonesing pretty hard to try it. I'm really interested in how a campaign proceeds insofar as player choose which classes to take as they go up in levels. I know what kind of factors go into that decision in standard D&D, but I'm interested to see what classes people like to combine in AU.