Got BT10 in last weekend, pretty happy with the results. The set is blessedly pretty cheap compared to BT9, in terms of singles. Didn't even break $90 on the slush-buy, and that with accidentally overbuying the MetalGreymon this set. A lot of expensive promos have dropped in price, too - Sunarizamon under $10! - but I'm holding off for now.

Deck updates will be nice, particularly for the Sakuyamon Plug-In deck. Also have touch-ups for Bugs and Cyborgs. As for new decks, I like the look of Blue Flare and Bagra Army, but for now I'm just building out Canoweissmon. Gonna add Kimeramon and one of the early WarGreymons - probably BT1 since it protects from Options. My brother might build out a proper RagnaLoardmon deck, too, which looks fun.

EX3 is hitting next month. Love me some dragons, and there's a great piece for Cyborgs.

We played Dinogenics this weekend when that brother visited, and let me tell you I had a lot of fun. I was afraid it had too much going on but it played really well. Hoping to hit a higher player count at Thanksgiving.

Bought some Mage Wars this weekend for real cheap, so I've decided to fill out the core 4 for both Arena and Academy. Working out what I ought to consider a "complete" collection has been fun, it'll be easier with the cards layed out in front of me. Going for a "complete experience" as opposed to "complete collection" thing here, if that makes sense. Never played much of it before but I love tactical and card games, pretty hard to say "no" to mixing that peanut butter with this chocolate. I may branch out to add the Druid vs Necromancer stuff, but that strongly depends on the final collection layout I settle on - if I need doubles, those get too costly very quickly, even at the steep discounts I'm finding online.

I ordered a Berserk Fury Zoid earlier this year, and it finally shipped, two months later than it really ought to have. That'll be a fun build, eventually. I really ought to plan out a couple nights on biweekly schedules so I touch my various hobby projects and play my verious games reasonably often. Hopefully as the boys get older actually pulling that off gets easier.

I've been playing some Endless Legend lately and it's been really fun. My first proper game since I've started used Vaulters, though I think I'm going to need to abandon it - I didn't make efficient tech choices, I didn't prioritize military development, and my neighbor was the Cravers so I really shouldn't have done that. Last couple of turns Cravers were rolling me.

Gotta decide who to run next - Broken Lords and Drakken look to be the most interesting right now, but Ardent Mages and Morgawr also look fun. Then there's Endless Space 2, Kingmaker, and Jurassic World Evolution 2, but I'm trying to focus on one game for now.

EX1 is finally here! I've been excited for this set for a long time. Looking forward to cracking this open and tweaking most of my decks. In particular Vee Jamming may get a solid once-over - I might switch it to a blue-green Imperialdramon build instead.

I recently got a gaming laptop. It's nice having something that can reliably run games. Gonna be on a 4x trip here soon with Endless Legend I think.

I also built a new deck in Arena. Neoform plus Sea Gate Stormcaller is a sweet combo.

As I am wont to do, I found something nostalgic and decided to go all-in on collecting it. In this case it was Fireborn, an early-aughts roleplaying game from FFG where you play a modern person in London with a dragon's soul. It has a lot of cool ideas, so-so writing and rules, and terrible editing. Luckily for me, there wasn't a lot and it's not that expensive.

Anyways, as a means of familiarizing myself with the game and setting, with the hopeful end-goal of maybe giving it an update, I started a Where I Read thread over on RPG.net. It's exactly what it says on the tin: I read the books, post my thoughts, and hope some other folks chime in.

I've started a journaling game called Thousand Year Old Vampire. You create a vampire and are given writing prompts so you can tell the story of its long unlife, as it slowly forgets parts of its life. I've made a brash young falconer in the court of Alexander the Great's father, cursed by a vulture-spirit of hunger. I got so inspired by that last bit that I decided to try my hand at some watercolor; my initial method (a lot of tracing to make a plan for making built-up monochrome layers) was too complicated but it turned out alright. I'm going to try another one soonish.

I learned how to play Koi Koi this weekend so I got a hanafuda deck. It's a very fun game, but the cards are thick cardboard - I'm still getting the hang of shuffling them!