The Maverick

Just a double deck of cards work out for today. With a few minutes rest in between decks.

First deck:
Red Cards = Pushups
Spades = Right Leg Lunges
Clubs = Left Leg Lunges

Second Deck:
Red Cards = Pushups
Black Cards = Bodyweight Squats

Damage:
380 Pushups
95 Right Leg Lunges
95 Left Leg Lunges
190 Bodyweight Squats

Ugh.
That is all.

Gunslinging...

They say things weren’t always this way. Fifty, maybe sixty years back, the unbelievable happened. A rock from space struck the moon, a great, big rock. The glassy white eye that watched over us went a’spinning off its regular rotation. This made all sorts of trouble. The seas went wild. Water rose and covered the land. The air filled with dust and water born bacteria. By the time the moon spun back to where it was supposed to be the damage was immeasurable. As the waters slowly receded the heat of the sun baked the earth dry where it had been. A series of solar flares smacked the earth like savage fiery hammers. They would have been rebuffed at least partially by the atmosphere, but it had been ruined in part by the mispinning of the moon. Civilization was destroyed in the process. New peoples rose up, claiming land as their own. They claimed to have been there all along, under the noses of the human race.

Readying for Ragnarok

A workout journal/log thing. Gonna try to keep track of workouts in here and such.

Todays workout, I dub "Atlas' Burden."

With such a name you'd probably expect a great deal of weight to be involved, well, you'd be wrong. I don't have a great deal of weight at home, so that's a no go. I call it Atlas' Burden because it killed my shoulders. The workout is pretty simple and can be done by just about anyone with a garage and a few simple tools.

It's 5 rounds consisting of 5 minutes each, 1 minute rest in between.
1 minute of fast rope jumping, followed by 30 seconds of sledgehammer swings into an old rimless car tire.
This leaves 30 seconds at the end after the last set of tire swings for each round, I grabbed the rope and did high knee sprint style jumping for it, fast, like a t-rex was chasing me.

It killed my shoulders, probably due to the fact that I haven't done any sledgehammer work in months.

I might do something later tonight if my shoulders feel better, probably a deck of cards workout or two. More on that later..

Games for the Year aka Stuff I'd like to run.

Whew, why should 2010 be any different from 2009? As such, here's a short list of stuff I'd like to run or do gaming-wise in 2010.

Two Campaigns in Pathfinder: One of which being a gritty, "Black Company" style game, with all sorts of blood and death and mayhem and gangrenous wounds. The other, a druid based game set in The Sodden Lands. The goal of which being the restoration of balance between the natural world there and mankind, finding a way to block the frigging hurricane from the mainland.

Then there's the pulpy "Temple of the Ape Lord" module I've been working on for Pathfinder too.


Eberron: I'd love to run me some Eberron, either with Pathfinder rules or 3.5.
Couple of ideas: A campaign in which the pc's all start out as barbarians from the demon wastes.
A Talenta Halfing game that consists of a series of one shots.

Gunslinging post-apocalyptic game: I don;t have a solid name for it yet, at the moment I'm just calling it "Gunslinging". Based on a mish-mash of post-apoc stuff, King's Gunslinger, Korgoth, Fallout 3, The Road, a bit of everything. This one is probably closest to being ready to go. I've made a good number of changes to a few classes and cut down the number of "standard" classes available.


There's also my sci-fi setting too, set in space, sort of warhammer 40k ish, in its setting (tons of human populated worlds) and the huge range of technology (from super high tech to stone age).

Plus, I'm working on my own board game.


Hopefully, this'll be a busy, productive year...

Ugh

Workout today:

Sprints in the soccer field, dragging a tire, in the snow. From goal post to goal post. Sprint down once, jog back, rinse, repeat x8. Were it not for the presence of the Necromancer, I may not have made it.

Old School/New School Vampire?

I've only recently become of aware of the "old school renaissance" in regards to Dungeons and Dragons. By recently, I mean the last three or four years. Up until then I would have scoffed at anyone attempting to talk me into playing anything but the current addition of the game. That changed though, due to the Superhero Necromancer. He actually talked me into played OD&D (which he's explained to me a few hundred times, is different from 1st edition D&D.), and that in turn led to this whole old school world opening up before me.

I'm wondering now though, if a sort of old school renaissance is taking place among White Wolf fans. It looks that way. With the CCP?White Wolf no longer running or organizing the Camarilla Fan Club, a call has gone out among the rank and file of members to return to the Old World of Darkness. I'm not sure what the terminology for it would be though, did they end with 3rd ed. or was it 2nd ed. revised?

Either way, I'm behind it. As in, I support it. The New World of Darkness (especially Vampire), shows a decided lack of mythology that the original had. Werewolf has done a good job of capturing some of the flavor and spiritual interaction that Apocalypse had. I was never all that into Mage so I can't really comment. Changeling is even better in its newest incarnation. And Geist, wow, Geist is everything that Wraith should have been.

Rambling aside, hah, I suppose what I'm getting at is that I'll get the most out of a Vampire the Masquerade resurgence. Although a return to Werewolf The Apocalypse would be great, since I spent soooo much time and money on that setting.

It's all a moot point as White Wolf has apparently outlived its pencil and paper game usefulness to CCP and won;t be producing too much more tabletop gaming material.

Today's Torture: Temple of the Frog

Uphill burpees, as many times up the hill as you can manage. Superhero Necromancer and I attempted this today, up our sprinting hill. It was awful. The only thing that we've done so far that I reckon as worse would be the day we did suicide runs at the soccer field with push-ups in between. Photos of the hill will be coming sometimes soon.