{"id":1246,"date":"2017-06-25T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2022-01-29T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T19:54:15","slug":"weekly-mix-25-june-25-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/weekly-mix-25-june-25-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Mix 25: June 25, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before we get to today\u2019s show I wanted to tell you about a game I just started playing called\u00a0Vampire: The Masquerade<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0It\u2019s a role playing game like\u00a0Dungeons & Dragons<\/a><\/em>\u00a0but instead of warriors and wizards it\u2019s based on vampires. And we\u2019re playing the game with dice and paper and not on a laptop.<\/p>\n

I confess, vampires aren\u2019t really my thing but I\u2019ve been having a blast. It\u2019s been ages since I\u2019ve been part of a role playing game and usually\u00a0I\u2019m<\/em>\u00a0the person running the game, so it\u2019s fun to be a player character. I\u2019m also tickled that my girlfriend is playing, too. When I tell her that she is my dream girl I don\u2019t think she understands how\u00a0much<\/em>\u00a0I mean that.<\/p>\n

I won\u2019t go into the game too much because I don\u2019t know too much about it myself aside from what I\u2019ve read on Wikipedia. But I\u2019m really digging how the game incorporates the mythology of vampires and also how morality and humanity is also a very important part of the game. What I can tell you is that there are a bunch of clans of vampires and each clan has their strengths and weaknesses. There\u2019s been a murder within the clans that could possibly throw everything into turmoil and me and my fellow players have been tasked to get to the bottom of things. Pretty dramatic, huh?<\/p>\n

There are four of us. My girlfriend is playing a Nosferatu-like vampire who is also a hacker. Our friend Becky is playing a corporate-raider type on vampire and our friend Glenn is a biker vampire. Me? I\u2019m playing an effete, club-footed vampire from the 19th century who is a cross between\u00a0Oscar Wilde<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Percy Bysshe Shelley.<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you more about the game as we go along. And if you\u2019re listening to today\u2019s show and you\u00a0also<\/em>\u00a0play role playing games I\u2019d love to hear about your own experiences.<\/p>\n