Calling all Lords of Tyr! I here by announce that Tyrwench's DMing cherry will be popped, so to speak, on Saturday September 11th at 6:30pm!

As practical research in my ever consuming passion for Children and teaching them the ways and skills of RPGing, specifically for us D&Ding . . . I will be running the WOTC Kids campaign "Heros of Hesiod" at our game night!

Is it cheating? Totally. I feel more comfortable trying out my first attempt at DMing with a module geared towards the DMing skills of a six year old.

Will you have fun? ABSOLUTELY!

We will have special guests that evening . . . Sarah & Jeff Moore and their fabulous kiddos (gamerchickshow.com creators) will be trying their first taste of D&D that evening with us! So, if you're coming to play be there on time (6pm) because they are coming a long way to play with us. You Lords can do the punctual thing if its important, I know you can (most of you made it to Iron Man 2 on time).

Do you need to create a character? No! Take a break . . . we will be using the pregnerated characters that come with the game.

So here is a mini review of GenCon 2010.

2 notes: This was my first Con and I have played D&D for almost 2 years (my anniversary is coming up in October!)

Basically, it was AWESOME! Why? We were exhausted everyday. So we know we were getting as much out of it as we could and by the last day my mom, Grammie -- who we brought along as our childcare and extra set of hands for babies/Shane -- asked, "Are we going to do this every year?" And she asked this with a bright smile on her face, even though her knees were killing her and she was ready for a nap at 11am.

Dr. Rotwang!'s Daughter's First D&D Game

This is a great article of how one dad introduced D&D to his daughter of only 5.5 years. I read Lily/Barbie's encounter to Shane as we were driving home from our vacation. He loved it and thanked me for reading him such a great story. So let's break this down and I'll have the Lord's and guests roll me and assist or two for some of the complicated things I have no idea about.

Intention: This D&D dada waited for his daughter to ask to play! I gotta say, I don't know if can do it. Based on this very simple yet integrity filled example of D&D gameplay, I am totally itching to test my DMing skills on my 3.5 year old.

The Sutton Lords & Ladies are are venturing to the Ren Faire next Saturday, July 31st. We have Sir Shane's dance lesson in the AM so we will not be there until probably 11:30am. We make a big day of it even with the wee ones. So if you are interested please join us.  If you don't already have my or Lord Chad's cell phone number please email us directly so we can make that happen before the day.  Here is some info about the faire!

Bristol Ren Fair Directions 

Bristol Ren Fair Info July 31

Bristo Ren Fair Tickets

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I was so delighted to meet GamerChick, Sarah Moore, and her husband Jeff & family on the LOT podcast recently. The sheer presence of another woman and mother, let's not forget working mother, gamer and writer, gamer, actor, producer, etc, did I mention gamer? Was encouraging and inspiring. So here is the fruit of that inspiration, thank you to the Moores . . . all of them!

Coming soon! The LoT Podcast will be the unvailing of the results of the first ever VALA Awards!

The VALA Awards are for Valor And Loyalty Above & beyond the call of duty or character in DnD game play. And of course are named for Stephanie-Tyrwench's Predator Druid from our Scales of War 4th edition game.

We are going to try to celebrate these awards every year around this balmly time and we will be happy to include other active members of the site.  This year we included two such people and we were excited to do so! If you'd like to become a voting VALA member of LoT check us out on Ustream and watch our games regularly on Wed. nites this summer and as always the 2nd & 4th Saturdays each month. As you become more familiar with the group you can email Chadarius and ask him about becoming a VALA voter!

Cheesey you say, over the top? What you think the oscars are? At least I'm not making Chadarius put on a tux (as if that would EVER happen...but maybe a bow tie).

As an young cub Dielillah became separated from her tribe during a move north for the warm season. She was captured by trappers who mistook her for a weretiger. When they realized she was an infant razorclaw shifter they kept her and trained her in acrobatics. By day one, way by night another in this way she performed for towns people everywhere. Caught in the clutches of a corrupt and greed driven underbelly Dielillah thought there was no hope for her freedom. She longed for her tribesfolk and the land she loved. Until one night a strange wolf-like woman and dwarven lady wandered into her show. They kept long glances on her and stayed through two of her areal shows. Late that night in her locked quartes the wolf-woman and dwarven lady came again. They were accompanied by a true wolf and a juviniel polar bear, which even to Dielillah was odd. They told her that they were supposed to be on a nights watch with their adventuring party but that the wolf woman had wondered away and the dwarven lady accompanied her.

What Race are you? What Class are you? How do you take your tea? These are all very important questions to consider when building your character. You will find them in the Player’s Strategy Guide. All in perfect girl cosmo magazine quiz like form. I'm totally stoked!  Here is an excerpt from the WotC website with pdf download, but I have already assigned Chad homework to go to games plus to get the PSG for me so I can read it before Monday when I will be trying to build my character for our new weekly game!

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