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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Total Attack!! Soccer Actual Play Report 3

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Early last week Mater and I played our third game of Total Attack!! Soccer, which was also our briefest since we had to halt it to watch an important hockey game (wherein the Columbus Blue Jackets clinched a place in the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time in their history — hurrah!). We only [...]

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Stepping upon the Field of Glory

Thursday, April 16, 2009

I neglected to mention this earlier, but I finally purchased Field of Glory and subsequently ordered and purchased two expansions, Rise of Rome: Republican Rome at War and Legions Triumphant: Imperial Rome at War. And so another addiction is added to my maladies, or rather two addictions: Field of Glory expansion books and historical miniatures. [...]

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Dave Arneson, 1947-2009

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Dave Arneson, born 1 October 1947 in Hennepin County, Minnesota, passed away on Tuesday, the 7th of April.
Arneson was the co-creator (with E. Gary Gygax, who passed away in March 2008) of Dungeons & Dragons, the first role-playing game.
As obituaries and history books (both written and yet to be written) will attest, Arneson’s place in [...]

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