Miniature painting

Its my new other hobby: Miniature painter. If add all miniature from all boardgames I own about 500+minatures (only Age of Mythology are 200) play with those miniatures painted give another felling of the game. Things turn more intersting.Everything started at www.redomanet.com when I saw some threads of boardgame collectors showing their miniatures painted. After weeks articles had been released about painting skills and this month I decided buy all the stuff and get started.
My first project is Gears of War - Boardgame, I'm almost finishing the game and left only 20% of all to have done. But with anothers 80% I have already put game on table and loved how everything turn out.

The next Thesin Empire pt2

Yesterday we could not play because my brother, Stan (BK11) got sick and wake up late of night. My group decided play Elder Sign and talk about a lot of things in reason to preserve the group. Its our rule, the RPG session only works if all components of that adventure is present.
Today my brother fells better and we played at afternoon in Smolarek's house. We started the adventure with a car and a small camp looking for the source of goods to build a new empire.
Some hours of gaming, our other friend arrived and ask to our GM to play.
and so...

After hours travelling we met a trader, a who after some conversation decided went with us in our journey in return for weapons. we had many encounters, most of them was dealing with other people or something like puzzle, i mean, a door which needs something or some skill to open, a big hole and so on.
The main topic of this session was the old laboratory we found with a big hole to a big camp. We also discovery that our hired trader (a friend who joined today) was a Eidolon 19 and fight with him for respect and cheat on us. In the same time, many Femtoswarm appeared and fight too. We destroyed all of them and almost kill the ED19. The session ends in our fight with him. Now we will probably play again on friday when he could join with us. Tomorrow we will watch the Mad Max Trilogy, a movie that everybody in brazilian forums suggested when I say that was playing this RPG.
Writing this report I figure out that we forgot roll dice for experience... should do that before the next session.

The next Thesin Empire.

My friends and me started the campaign of Our Dust Earth that I called, without GM permission, The next Thesin Empire. This adventure was made looking to the suggested scenario D of rulebook but with few changes made by us by reason of characters lore.

We are playing in 4, the GM, me Raj an Elder Sophont 2, Smolarek a walker sophont 2 and Stan Biomeka 11. We made a deal of play everyday in this week and finish this adventure on Friday. Tonight we started late and just had time to read the rules, write each character lore and roll dices and made the character sheet.

About lore
Thesin is a family of Sophonts who rules a big company of weapons. Smolarek and I are leaders of this family and we hire Stan, a great employee of us t o came with us in a journey to find a ruined Arcology and build another company and the next Thesin Empire.

Tomorrow we will have another session and I'll updated with another report and this time, with pictures!

Translating december 25

December 25 could be translated in every language as love.
It is more than an ordinary day
It is the most beautiful love that someone have already known

December 25 is more than a date
Is about being peace and hope for the
people you love and you don't

December 25 is when you feel
you could be better
And be a light in someone's life
like Jesus did when he was born

Shooting update

         Today I invited my father to training with me but he couldn't. So I spent my free time to shoot at home in a paper target from 10 meters. I shot with scope and without scope, but most of them was by open sights. Last weekend my friends and I went to a farm and I shot with scope all time, so today was the time to training shoots by open sights. 

         

          In this training I used the first ten bullets to adjust the crosshairs and then more twenty bullets on this target below that shows some goods groups. I also went to my friend's house tonight to tuning my air rifle but we can't do it because some issues. But I'm sure that after this changes I'll get more accuracy in shots. I hope could do it after july to get ready to the local competition.

A duel night

Last night I was in my friend's house and we played 5 games of AC The Search. I show my build (the first edition without expansion cards) and taught the rules in about 5 minutes.

The first game he won playing as Crimanal. After that he decided only play as Police and there he touch in my weakness. I have just played as Criminal one or two times. Anyway he won the second game but in the third and fourth game I could won. Making the score 3x2 this night.

We also figure out some issues like:

-If a criminal card was in a corner and the police put 2 barrels in adjacents cards. What criminal should do ?

-If the criminal use the On step ahead card to make the criminal and come back being in out of range of police.

I'll update this post with some photos soon. I'm making courage to write more reports and reviews (Firsts reviews will be in portuguese in posted on BGG)

I'll download again the files of the new edition of this game to see what it will change and play against him again. Is also important to say that he is another friend of mine that loved the game in the first time that he saw it.

My first 10

Shooting is my new hobby, since my father gave me an air rifle after the local tournament I've been training and shooting with him in our home and farm. I'm pretty new and have a lot of things to learn and spend too much time training, but i'm loving it.

After Brazilian's Carnival holydays, when we get home I start my training and finally I get my first ten shoot, this is kind the perfect shoot that an airgunner could get.

We gonna have another tournament in June and I'm so excited about it. Well, if I keep traning in this way, for sure I'll have good chances to compete. But until there, I'll having fun shooting and training with my dad. I'm also reading and watching everything about shoot and air rifle. What is cool because i'm thinking seriously in record some videos of my training.

Strange power

Most of employers that I have know is kind of strange, not because they looks like an Alien but something with their actions. Some people cannot see this and have afraid of the boss. I bet all of them have a strange power. You can see in a conversation between you and him, you always have in mind what they are thinking (He going to fire me ? He saw my awesome work yesterday ?) or anything else. They also act perfectly same as each other. Every boss start a fire conversation in a closed room and probably all of your co-workers know that you going to fired.

I cannot say if it is same in all places. I really don’t know anything about hospital, for example. Maybe their employers are different than other I know.

Employers have an especial power of transformer every situation in an embarrassing situation. For example, you are eating a cranberry cake in your room and suddenly you see he appear walking in front of you. What happened? You try hide your cake and for nature power, the cake fall down and your table and shirt get dirty. Your co-worker ask what happened and you say something related to dusty, what seems totally different than what really happened and nobody believe in you. My point is: Your boss just transformers you into a liar with a simple walk and a cranberry cake.

I think this things is part of life and will be like this forever. I hope be wrong and one day this strange power over. But at least one thing nowadays cannot get worst: Do not exist people who are addicted in act as a boss.

***

In my first blog, I used to play a word game with friends. I ask somebody to say to me ten words and then I have to write a text with all these words. This one is the first wrote in English. My friend who gave me the words was Leonardo Barreto. (miss our games session bro). You can see below what words is.

Challenge words: Strange, forever, between, addicted, employer, hospital, afraid, dust, cranberry, power

The Bright Sword

My father used to tell us

The tale of the Bright Sword

While listening to him

I'd looked at the campfire

And in the flames I'd see

The heat of mighty battles

"The Seven Kings of Lassadar

Led Major Battles against

The Shadow Army

and I was present in the third Great Victory"

He then would stop and say

"I can see light in your eyes, my son"

Shadows in my dream

I was sleeping the first time
That I saw the Shadows.
The night was quiet
But the beat of my heart was loud

The shadows were coming for me
Swallowing my face
I woke up with my mother's arms
Holding me strong as she could
She said: "It's just a dream, my little boy"

But unfortunately,
Some years after that night
The Shadows would appear not only in my dreams

***

Post Scriptum

This poetry was made after I play the solo game called Shadows upon Lassadar designed by Todd Sanders. You can know more about game here.

Why the brazilians don't write?

Hello

I read in an interview few days ago that brazilian people do not participate in forums on internet, they just acess the websites and read the info, but do not write about with they personal opnion.

Unfortunately, I had to agree with that, I never found a brazilian in forums or in foreign blogs. Even though follow many brazilians blogs I know few ones that write in english. Its a little strange because if you see in blogger profile and search for any blog by a theme and you will find many blogs about any themes in english.

Some people says that in Brazil have few options to speak and write english and this make the teach and learn process a bit difficult. But I guess that the worst things is that brazilians do not want to make this different and make opportunities like this blog to have an extra contact with english.

Perhaps they have a kind of afraid about write in a foreign language and make some mistakes, but as you can see, I already did some and still writing here and still have people visting me. The same occurs in my first words (link) there you see portugueses mistakes but I keep writing in improving my skills in both langueges.

Therefore, I invite you to comment or do better, write something in english and send me by email and I'll publish here.

Let's do it folks!

Postcard Exchange

Hello folks.

One of my hobbys is games. I like so much play by myself or with a great group of friends and I think that games have more than fun and entertainment, they give to us best moments with friends. So, about games I usually play board games. here in Brazil we have a famous board game called War that I always play with my game group, but we also like to play foreign games like Citadels, Cthulinária (a re-design of Cthul-B-Que) and other games.

I'm a user of two board game forum. The first is Ilha do Tabuleiro a brazilian forum and the second is BoardGameGeek. In this second one I joined in a postcard exchange to share postcards around the world. I received two and had to sent two to other users from the BGG forum. This ideia its awesome, I love other cultures, know about other countrys and put my hands in a thing that travel across the world its fantastic.

So I share with you a picture of post card from Jonh Michael and Krist both from USA. Hugs and peaces for you two.

Ah, before I forget, this picture below is the postcards that I designed for my friends. It is hidden, I know, but they deserve a surprise.

The new old Hero

Sherlock Holmes is a movie released in two thousand nine that was directed by Guy Ritchie, and Robert Downey Jr. (Sherlock Holmes), Jude Law (Dr. John H. Watson) in main cast.

This movie arrives in Brazil like a new looks for this hero of 19’s century, a hero who fights against enemies and keep with the fantastic intelligent of unraveling mysteries. I think this new look arrives in Brazil because in United Kingdom this hero keep working like a master detective in sitcoms.

The movie director was brilliant working in this movie when he gave to Sherlock Holmes more energy in the rhythm of the scenes, how you can see in the dwarf’s house and then the fights against the French giant. At the same time, the Holmes’s sidekick, the Dr. Watson also follows the same energy fighting and thinking with Holmes.

In some scenes of the movie you can see good choices of the director in few aspects. When he shows the big bridge that was been built, the cast outfit or the way to move around just prove that the history was in 19’s century. Other good choice of director is the scene that Holmes use disguise to follow Irene Adler, what keep and strengthen the knowledge of the master detective.

Therefore, the young people had to know this old hero in genre fiction, and Ritchie gave us an amazing and new Sherlock Holmes who has a fantastic sidekick ready to use they intellect so overdeveloped to discovery any mystery.

My private mistakes

If you are here its because I invite you. Yeah, this is a private blog to show my private mistakes. Everybody make mistakes but most of people fell scared about it. Some mistakes its so big that we hide. Here I'll talk about mistakes and right things, because I believe that we need to know all mistakes we did and what right things we also did. I need say that I am Brazilian guy who studing at university letters with habilitation in English and am love try write in english. I always make some mistakes when I wrote in english, but who says its a sin make grammar mistakes ? So I create this blog to write in English, make many mistakes and I hope that you help me find how write better or just say nothing and keep living your life.

cya