Magic Tournament

I accompanied my friend to a local Magic the Gathering tournament this evening and it was tremendous fun! It was interesting meeting new players and seeing how they played and what kind of decks they used.

I was rather proud with the outcomes of my matches:
First – Lost 2-0
Second – Drew 1-1
Third – Lost 2-1
Fourth – Won 2-0

I won four matches tonight and, to be honest, that’s four more than I thought I would. The second game was only a draw because we took way too long with the first two matches, and the third game was quite close the entire time.

My friend did a lot better, and ended up coming second over all. He too was surprised at this.

I think we may have to go back again and do even better next time!

Campaign Begins

We officially started playing Dungeons and Dragons today. It was a hell of a lot of fun, I must say, even though we achieved very, very little. We spent about three quarters of our time creating characters, and then we finally got started on the actual role playing… which kind of collapsed on itself rather quickly.

I had an incredible amount of fun rolling for everything, such as walking along the road, NPC’s personality and whether or not another player was a dumb-arse (or, more importantly, whether or not I was a dumb-arse… The roll was successful). But we got the campaign on the way, the exposition stated and the world that we were playing in created and, most importantly, we’re excited to get back to playing.

It’s a bit tough, as we’re playing with two parties at the same time, especially for complete beginners, but we’ll make it through, I’m sure. 

Dungeon Master

My friends had the great idea to try Dungeons and Dragons out next weekend and I had the even better idea to put my hand up to be Dungeon Master.

Let’s just say that my knowledge of the game is… reasonably lacking. Especially when I’m supposed to be running the whole thing and have a reasonable grasp of the rules and mechanics… I am having fun creating the story and world of the game, although I’m not sure if I’ve enough time or skill to actually pull it off.

I reckon we’re going to have a lot of fun, even if it’s a terrible game.

I’ll just make everything up if I have to.

Aeroplane

It took me multiple attempts to figure out how to spell that word… That makes me feel sad…

But, in any case, you don’t need to be able to spell the word ‘aeroplane’ to be able to play it, which is a nice segue to what I want to talk about.

I was playing Aeroplane today! It was awesome! If you don’t know how to play (and I feel for you, I really, really do), you just stick your arms out and run around, making your best “Nyeouw!” sound. It’s such an awesome game.

But, strangely, when you get to the world of adulthood, the likelihood of someone suggesting a quick game of Aeroplane starts to dwindle. It’s as if no one wants to pretend that they are the Red Baron, shooting down hoards of alien ships from the Planet Uranus (which, let’s be honest, is the funniest planet. All the best comedians come from there).

The best thing about doing a Creative Arts degree at University is that you can do a whole bunch of crazy things and still claim that it’s Uni work. For example, because I’m a creative writer, every film I watch, every book I read and every video game I play can be considered research, for you never know which part of the industry you might end up working in, so you have to gain an understanding of how each medium works. It’s freaking awesome. I actually think I’m set a short game as part of a course, as we are to play the game and then see how it was adapted to screen… I think. That, or the teacher couldn’t be arsed, and we’re just going to sit around playing Halo for two hours…

Either way, the students come out on top.

But I get to do a lot of fun things at Uni, mainly thanks to Medigood, who has asked me to be in a couple of his film projects. The last one, I got to play a silent film villain, and had a lot of fun hamming it up with everyone.

I know I complain a lot about University work and always having things to do, but there are sometimes when I have to be completely honest and say that University is freaking amazing.

I’m going to be so depressed when it ends this year…