HUD 2013

2013 Head's Up Display

1. Lose 20 lbs. - Progress
2. Display Hill for Trenchers
3. Clear Coat DnD Tiefling and Flame Sword Fighter, Long Gunners, and Trenchers
4. Cyclone Heavy Warjack
5. Finish Hills and Spires
6. Eiryss Mage Hunter
7. Cygnar Firefly Light Warjack
8. Cygnar Squire
9.  240-ish Bones Minis!!!

Last year's 2012 HUD.

Book 4

The next book, or actually series I loved was The Star of the Guardians Series by Margaret Weis.  The villain is complicated and believes he is doing the right thing.  The heroine is complicated by guilt and love.  The "Han Solo" character is just trying to make a living and the "Luke" character is not as together as he thinks.  And they have swords with needles in the hilt that run off of the nanobots in certain people's DNA.  It was super cool when I read it in high school!

Book 3

Continuing my top ten list for books that got me into the fantasy / gaming scene.

Book 3 - Dragonlance, beginning with Dragons of Autumn Twilight.  I was pulled in by the cover artwork and then the idea of how this would flow from a gaming scene.  I later bought the annotated edition with notes from the authors in the sidebars.  For the first half of the book, they played the game and wrote what their characters did.  Eventually, they used that as a jumping off point and started writing the story.  Once you know it is there, you can sense a more smooth approach in the writing when the stop trying to copy down the game.  I loved the books, the idea of a thief who didn't steal (he was just a bit of a clepto) and a wizard who was not really on his party's side.

Book 2

Continuing my top ten list for books that got me into the fantasy / gaming scene.

Book 2

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien.  I think I was 10 when my mother put this book in my hands.  I devoured it.  I had already seen the 1977 cartoon by Rankin/Bass and the book was even better.  You can check out part of the movie at youtube.

Eventually, I read the other three, along with the Silmarillion.

I was also taken with the early cartoon Flight of Dragons.  You can watch part of it here!