A Life Full of Adventure

If I had a product creator asking me the best ways to use social networks, I would advise them thusly: Twitter: Use this for announcements. It's not useful for conversations. Facebook:  Use this for keeping up with friends and family only. Don't friend fans or people you don't know. If you have a Facebook Page for your company/product/what-have-you, use it for announcements. If you have a Facebook discussion group, let the fans discuss your product. Reply when something catches your eye. If there was one place on Facebook that I were to suggest the creator cultivate professional interaction, this would be the one place. Google+: Use this for your professional postings. Post thoughts, new developments, pictures, convention info, etc. on this forum, and interact with the people in your circles. Reply to comments. Comment on the posts of others in your circles, especially prolific posters who have lots of other active people in their circles. Do some Hangou...

Or #MyBlackLibrary. We were (and are) having some discussion in the Google+ WarHammer Community about different books that help us portray the WarHammer world to our players. I brought up this series. Felix and Gotrek share a popularity in the WarHammer world probably only akin to Drizzt and Bruenor in the D&D novel world. Gotrek is everything you expect a Slayer to be, though he has a little help (hindrance?) from his magical axe. I recommend these books to any fantasy reader but especially to any WarHammer player/GM.

OK, so these aren't random and weren't asked to be when the meme started. These are the 7 rpgs I have played the most since I began gaming. They are in order of the ones I've played the most, starting at the left. This is also the order I have DMed the most, up through Basic. I haven't GMed Earthdawn, Shadowrun, or C&C. I think the only game I've run that's not here is Ambition & Avarice .

A week or so ago, James at Grognardia challenged everyone to snap a picture of their go-to RPG reference books they keep close at hand. Mine aren't too close at hand, and half are hidden/obscured by a filing cabinet. I did gather all my WarHammer Fantasy Roleplay stuff together, though, to take a picture. It's my favorite game, and I have a fair amount of books. I didn't include anything in binders. Yesterday I found a few books that didn't make it into the picture. They are the 2e books Karak Azgal, Spires of Altdorf, and Ashes of Middenheim. Feel free to link to your bookshelf photo!

I have two dice bags. One is my old one from days of roleplaying yore. It's stuffed to just about bursting with 10 siders (gotta love WarHammer!), 8 siders (2nd edition cleric, anyone?), and 6 siders (fireball!). Relatively recently I purchased a newer, bigger dice bag to hold another purchase: a Pound-O-Dice (C). My old dice bag is...old, and worn, and full. Just this morning I came up with the thought of merging the two into the larger bag. Has anybody heard about any kind of p residence for this? Is this dice taboo? What would Bob Herzog say? Please, I need your expert opinion on the subject.