{"id":62,"date":"2009-01-07T16:18:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T00:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/?p=62"},"modified":"2009-01-07T16:19:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T00:19:43","slug":"johns-2008-gaming-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/2009\/johns-2008-gaming-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"John&#8217;s 2008 Gaming Year In Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year did not seem that different from other years but on hindsight it was pretty great as far as RPGs go.<\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights of my &#8220;RPG Year 2008&#8221; was DunDraCon.? It had actually been a while since I attended a con for the entire run.? In fact I can tell you that it was exactly 6 years since having Joshua.? :D? It was a GREAT con.? I went with Brian Fernandez which was also a blast since he is very flexible and willing to try anything.? The con was full of great seminars like the &#8220;Big Hero Announcements&#8221;, &#8220;Whats New In Gaming&#8221;, and the gaming with kids event.? I also played in a fantastic Dark Heresy demo, a wild Pulp Hero session, and lots of Memoir 44 and Battlelore sessions.? It was also a chance to see some friends like Darren Watts, Ken Hite, Ray Greer, Jason Walters, and Steve Long.<\/p>\n<p>The second thing that really stood out for me in 2008 was a sesson of my TIAM campaign based on the Call Of Cthulhu adventure Sacraments Of Evil.? It was two session of gaming that I will not soon forget.? The sessions were filled with tension and drama&#8230;homerun sessions.? I have to thank my crack squad of regular players for really pulling it off.? Thanks Geoff, Don, Jim, Tim, and Steve.<\/p>\n<p>Finally I had a great time as a player in Derek Heimforth&#8217;s Dark Walkers campaign.? Think MIB meets Hellboy and you have the right idea.? It is really a blast playing anything with Derek, Gary, Tim, and our new heroine Maggie.<\/p>\n<p>Here is to a kick butt 2009 gaming year!? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year did not seem that different from other years but on hindsight it was pretty great as far as RPGs go. One of the highlights of my &#8220;RPG Year 2008&#8221; was DunDraCon.? It had actually been a while since I attended a con for the entire run.? In fact I can tell you that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-growlings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}