Hmm. Been quite a while since I posted to Dark's. The reason is, though, that my gaming has been--well, not nonexistant, but horribly horribly curtailed by circumstance in the last two months. Tuesday night gaming got capped quite a while back because of class schedules, and we never got our shit together to play on another night. Cthulhu had a burst of activity at the end of May/beginning of June because Keely and Jenna and Mallery were all clamouring to play before summer break sucked them away in different directions; I need to update the Masks website, but the party is on the FINAL LEG of the adventure if they could just get their asses in motion! Man, I should try to call a session for next week... Thursday Runequest on the southside has been lackluster, though we had one or two good moments recently. I wonder if I'm just losing my taste for GMing? That can't be it... But I do think I've gotten a little burned out. I like to play as well as GM, and I just haven't had much opportunity for that since January.

On the up side, though, we finally played a session of D&D this past Tuesday, for the first time in months. The RQ campaign is showing signs of life. And I've played miniatures games twice in the last two weeks--one stunningly horrible loss at Bloodbowl, against Mac's Chaos Dwarves, and one stunningly gratifying win at Warhammer Fantasy, against Mac's orcs and goblins. That was quite something, actually. 2000 point battle, so quite a lot of figures on the table, and Mac is a darn good player. The game went from 10 pm to nearly 2 am, at which point Mac conceded. The only pall on the evening was my desire to punch his friend Tony in the nose for being an idiot.... Which frankly is my desire whenever I'm around Tony for more than 5 minutes. So overall, it was a good game!

Lastly, my friend Heather was kind enough to bring "Tabloid Teasers" to our 4th of July pitch-in yesterday! There's a game that everyone can enjoy--well, anyone who can appreciate the bizarre world of tabloid headline writing. We had 12 people playing, and I laughed so hard I think I pulled an abdominal muscle. For a cheesy party game that was only published for like 2 years--a mere footnote in Pressman's vast empire of cheaply produced and/or shoddy games--it's really one of the best large-group-gathering games I've ever played (and I've played a lot.) Beats Cranium all to hell.