View From the Bushes

Today is once again the family campaign. When last we left our brave adventurers, they had narrowly escaped (via the insta-kill rule) two fiends from the abyss and one of them had been permanently blinded. I mention that it was permanent because generally in D&D very little is permanent, but in this cause it's a blindness of the soul, rather than the eyes so he's not getting out of it so easily. This might sound harsh until you realize that this particular player requested that his character be made blind. Yeah, it's true, while most people want to plan Han Solo or Indiana Jones or Jack Ryan (or perhaps just cut to the chase and play Harrison Ford), this player wanted to play an old blind guy.

In other news, Marvel (X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk, etc.) is suing the makers of City of Heroes for trademark infringment. The complaint alledges that CoH provides people with the tools to mimic Marvel IP. Of course, from this arguably silly premise Marvel could go on to sue Crayola for making Crayons which could be used to draw their IP or MS Word for providing the tools to duplicate a novel, and so forth. In any case, it's obviously sad to see it come to this, particularly since I had always considered Marvel to be one of the good guys...

My reading of "Angels and Demons" continues. Whereas the beginning was not quite as good as the Da Vinci code, I'll have to say that the middle portion maybe better, or at least it was until Mr. Brown found it necessary to point out all the things that Christianity had borrowed from the Aztecs. I'm not even sure where to begin to talk about what's wrong with that.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross