Category: games

It’s 1996 and just wait ’til they get a load of this deck full of counterspells.

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In all fairness to Spelling Bee, when I had these a few years ago, my regular doctor didn’t know what they were either.

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Spelling Bee: “What’s a chilblain?”1

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I think you need to get out more, Spelling Bee.

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Mojito? What’s that?

That’s Right, Morgoth, There’s No Such Word As This.

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(I will cop to trying this word a couple of times before remembering that it has everything to do with The Silmarillion and nothing to do with poling boats around the canals of Venice.)

Wordle: Judgy? Or Just Envious?

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Isn’t this the second time you’ve told me something like this, Wordlebot*?

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Oh Sure, But A “Kitchenette” Is A Thing

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Note: I know about oubliettes. Those are different.

The Early Years: Pressed In Stone?

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So it seems like I’ve got my entire Villains & Vigilantes Rogues’ Gallery to go through, in my giant stack of old papers and whatnot that my folks found in the closet in my old bedroom and shipped out to me, so you should be prepared for just about any kind of cheesy supervillain to show up here over the next several installations of “The Early Years”. In this case, we have somebody based on, apparently, Ajax from the Trojan War, right down to his spear-flinging abilities; except this Ajax is a villain, not a hero.*

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He’s Not Here, Man

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A little reminder, for those who may not be as hip old as me:

The Early Years: Mmm, Potato

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So a while back, I pulled some old Villains & Vigilantes (I think) character sheets, which people seemed to find amusing, so I figured I would dip back into the stack and pull out another one. Since I ran the game, most of the sheets in this stacks are going to be NPCs, and of them, most are going to be villains, because, after all, you gotta have villains to go with your vigilantes. Here’s today’s:

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Words, Words, Everywhere The Words

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So I’ve sort of been collecting amusing (to me, anyway) screen shots of Spelling Bee words that were not accepted. Most of them are words I didn’t expect it to take but that I wanted to spell anyway, and since they’ve started to kinda clutter up my device with pictures, I figured it was time to finally post them. (Like I said before, it’s not easy keeping an author blog going when you’re not authoring …)

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