Roleplaying
I got home from the larp this sunday, being generally satisfied and happy with the fun I'd had when I saw the package slip from the post office. The comic and general nerd-stuff shop I usually buy Rpg-book at advertised a special intruduction price of only 300 kroner (about  60 USD) per book. Amazon.com wanted about ten dollars more for the hole three book set. These must be good times for Norwegian import business.

Anyways, I've gotten a peek at the new Dungeons and Dragons. Know what? It actually looks rather good. I still haven't really had the time to look closely at it, but my impressions are these:

- There are somewhat less options to choose from when making your character, but they are all much more significant. Thus, we might have a system that is easier to teach and get the hang of, but with more possibilities for different character concepts. Of course, it might be that it only makes all characters do the same, but with different flavor texts, but I don't think so.

- Combat will only be marginally faster than before, and then only because the players options will be clearer to them.

- Races other than Humans will _not_ actually cripple your character completely munchkin-wise.

- All females depicted are still big breasted scantilly clad 20-something super models. Even the dwarves.

- DM-ing will be a breeze compared to what it was earlier. I think it will actually be quite manageable to dm a session without planning any of the encounters ahead of time, and with only minimal delay in reading encounters in the books. More and easier improvisations? Yay!

- The World of warcraft-ness I was afraid of seems to have been largely pessimism. Won't know until We've played a session or two, though... Who's with me? This weekend, for example? Who? Speak up!