Category Archives: Gaming

Dusthammer 40K?

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     There’s a line from the movie Time Bandits that my wife loves to hear me say…”I’ve got an idea forming in my head.”  It usually means we’re about to do something cool.  Well, I think I’m about to try something cool.

     I may have mentioned that I sit at a desk all day at work.  Radio reception in our 100 year old building isn’t great so I tend to listen to podcasts all day.  One day last week, I was tuned in to a recent episode (#102) of The D6 Generation, a gaming podcast.  The guys had Romeo Filip of 40K Radio as a guest and gave a detailed review of the game Dust Warfare from Fantasy Flight Games.

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My Nerd Cave To-Do List

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     Now that my new home within my home is more or less completed, it’s time to actually have some fun in here.  But as you might have noticed, I don’t confine my hobbies to just one or two interests. So, instead of making things up as I go, I’ve decided to put together a little “to-do” list as far as projects I’d like to get done in the near and not-so-near future.

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Designing the Nerd Cave–Game Room

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     I became a gamer around 1980.  People at my mom’s office were playing something called Dungeons & Dragons and raving about how much fun they were having.  She soon bought the blue box set for my father at a local bookstore.  He had about as much interest in the game as Stephen Hawking would have in a Karaoke machine. I quickly inherited the box and was instantly hooked.

      A couple years later, I was babysitting for a couple down the street when I noticed Avalon Hill’s Squad Leader on the bookshelf.  The husband, Steve, invited me over the following Saturday to play.  Getting my head handed to me became a regular thing but I loved every minute of it.

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