So Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska is going to step down and not run again.

lulucthulhu has been wondering if her next career move will be as a Tina Fey impersonator?

If you are going to say happy birthday America, say it with fireworks. North Korea did.

Which was nice.

This is traditional.

Happy birthday tax-dodging, religion dissenting...

REBEL SCUM!

The second RPG I tried at Games Expo was the (now) Origins Award winning Mouse Guard. This was first thing Saturday morning, with DaveL and I rushing to get there, and not be distracted by everything that was new and on sale! We did not even have time to visit the face painter and get our faces done as mice. Which would have been very silly, but funny all the same.

We had a group of six and were playing the “Deliver the Mail” scenario from the core book. I only know this now because I am currently reading the core book. I also know that we were not playing the game as written, there being no adversarial division in the game between the GM and the players. So instead of the GM’s and the players’ turns, the game was played more as a traditional RPG.

One very nice touch was that the GM has finger puppets for each character, complete with the right colour cloak and weapon. This was because Mouse Guard is regarded as an introductory game – it is and it isn’t, being slightly too complex for that, but in the hands of a good GM it is – and while we did not use them as finger puppets, we did use them as miniatures. Although a comment was made that we could play the game in one-to-one scale right there on the table, mice not being all that big.

Despite not adhering to the turn structure we all had fun. I kept arguing that we needed to deal with problems that were coming up before rushing off to deliver the mail, and that actually developed into an argument. I lost. In the end though, I was proved right. We had to go back and deal with a major threat to one village.

What was interesting was our having to adjust to thinking down to mouse scale. Nature became much, much more of a threat.

We were all very brave and clever where it was needed! I attacked a ground squirrel and stuck it with an arrow before DaveL dived in and drove the arrow into the creature’s skull with his spear. I gave him the name “Nosestriker” for that! Lastly I defended us against a snake by striking it from the inside! I had to be cut out and I was battered and bruised.

It was a fun game and I do hope that DaveL runs it. I just hope that dinkybruiser will like it.