The V List Revisited

Loathing comes easily to everyone.  Let's see what I've chosen to spotlight my death-ray of hatred on this time...


World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandemonium - Now, I know that it must be hard for Blizzard to shower in money every day, washing their hair in liquid gold shampoo and slipping on a pristine black suit but come on, Pandas?
I understand that the Pandaren as a race have existed since the Warcraft RTS series and to be honest, they were totally badass.  The slight problem I have with the entire idea of releasing an expansion revolving around this new race is really the whole "Kung Foo Panda" affiliation.  As I said, I am aware that Pandaren pre-date this film franchise but it still seems a little...odd.  Almost as if Blizzard are somehow aiming themselves at the younger market much more by adding this race instead of something that hasn't been apparently extinct for thousands of years.  I mean, we've had the entire world shattered and the next logical step is...Pandas?  Eh, I think I'll swap to The Old Republic for a while until this all blows over.


The Twilight "saga" - ...This has been covered thousands of times by a myriad of different reviewers and critics, so I'll keep it short.  I loathe the messages that are being hammered into young woman's minds by this shoddy excuse for a "Vampire" story.  I hate the fact that Vampires and Vampire lore have been completely destroyed by this franchise.  If you want to make a sexy being that sparkles, make a new fucking word for it.  How can women like this?  I don't understand what the appeal is.  Eye-candy? A pathetic excuse if ever I heard one.  I mean, sure, Men have exploitation films and games all the time, Dead or Alive for one, but we don't pretend they're anything else -but- exploitation.  This "saga" wants to be taken seriously people! i hope that in ten years the existence of these films will be utterly denied.


Not having super-powers - This is a less serious dislike of mine but every single nerd in the world has wished or at least yearned for super-powers at some point in their life and I'm kind of sick of not having them.  I mean sure, perhaps a few civilisations would fall by my hands if a power-granting anomaly occurred but come on, I'd be a great World Leader...


Creationists - Science exists, get on the Lightsaber band-wagon.


I think this'll do for now, not sure that I'm in the right mind-set to do this too seriously but at least this cheered me up a little bit.

Tales of a Dungeon Master

For a while now, I've been really interested in role-playing games of all kinds.  I've role-played in World of Warcraft for three or four years now and also run Dungeons and Dragons campaigns for at least a year, both online and sitting around a table.  This has yielded some very interesting results considering one of the most interesting things to observe is human interaction and the free-will of players in games.


I'll clear this up right here and now.  I do not follow a rule book.  I do not play any sort of licensed version of Dungeons and Dragons.  All of my campaigns and adventures are completely based on home-grown rules of my own creation as well as plots and story-lines that I have written.


I've never been able to grapple with the numbers and figures in the Dungeons and Dragons campaigns or manuals  perhaps I'm just lazy, but I've also never been good with maths in any size, shape or form making it even harder to get to grips with the rulebooks.


Getting back to the point.  I've decided that if I am to continue blogging it'll have to be about something I enjoy that others could find interesting and these campaigns can sometimes be -hilarious- or at the very least, very interesting.  So, if I can get my act together I'll be posting stories about the many blunders that happen throughout my time as a Dungeon Master.