Yer A Wizard!

 

Since my teens, I've had an interest in gaming. 

I tend to gravitate towards gamers as friends and was fairly into some of the card games like Marvel Overpower, Yugioh, and Magic: The Gathering in high school. I set up my first email account just so I could join a friend's online Dragon Ball role playing website.

The one thing I've always wanted to try, but have never gotten into is Dungeons and Dragons. I love the characters and monsters, the art, and the stories, but the idea of point values and math bores me.

But like I said, I enjoy other aspects of D&D. So, as a fun waste of time about a week ago, I challenged myself to create my own Dungeons and Dragons character.

I took some online quizzes to determine my character's class, race, and moral alignment, using as much of my own personality as possible. The race represents what species you are (human, elf, dwarf, etc.), class is what you do (wizard, knight, and so on), and moral alignment is geared to the character's moral and personal attitudes. They range from Lawful Good (a firefighter who rescues cats from trees level of goodness) to Chaotic Evil (picture the Joker).

After everything was done, I came out with a Neutral Good (good, but not bound to anyone or thing) Human Wizard/Monk.

 

Essentially this

Works for me!

Nothing to go further with, but a fun way to kill an hour.

Cheers!

Farewell to a Passtime

 

The beginning of 2021 marked the end of the Internet's support of Flash and with it, the end of one of my favourite websites, time-killers, and creative inspirations/outlets Heromachine Hero Creator.

I discovered it randomly about eleven years ago, and just played around on it casually until part way through Scriptwriting, when I used it visualize characters I was creating for projects, like this one for a one-act play:

The Red Knight, World War II-era hero of England

After that, I used it to come up with various characters and creatures for Cryptic, the comic I was trying to write.

After college, it went from a tool to a time-killer, something fun to do when I was bored. 

The website would regularly hold challenges, where people could design and submit a character based on a theme. While I didn't have the tech to officially participate, I would still try them out just for fun.

At one point, I took the Red Knight and created other characters I thought might fit in that "universe." Recently, thanks to the pandemic, I used a combination of writing and Heromachine to expand that universe into the Scooterverse, a more detailed, expanded place for everything. That culminated in a mad Heromachine Marathon a week ago just before the website went down where I created and saved over two dozen characters (two teams worth, plus others) to a memory stick to keep.

It's been a good decade+, but all good things must end, so now I search the Web for my next nerdy way to procrastinate.

Cheers!

Hopes for 2021

 

Happy New Year!

2020 taught me to set the bar low so, so far, 2021 is looking REALLY simple.

This year, I hope to:

1. Survive Winter
2. Get the COVID vaccine (and so should you!!)
3. Write an article/post (or two) that could be published outside of the blog
4. Go back to work at some point, maybe
5. I really hope that this year, my mother can somehow get down to visit my grandmother/her mom safely and without facing too many restrictions
6. Take a real vacation. Nothing big, but something more than 2020's afternoon of getting a hotdog and comics
7. Take the extra time to start some kind of future long-term plan.

That's it. For now, anything else is just bonus.

Cheers!