I can't go into specifics about yesterday's D&D 4E session at Penny Arcade, and I won't be able to say anything until after the podcasts are released . . . but I thought I'd collect the few tweets I sent while we were playing as sort of an oblique overview:
Remember when you were a kid, and you hardly slept on Christmas Eve, because you were so excited? That was me last n ight. D&D4E FTW! -7:51am
I am currently watching Mike and Scott design my character portrait. OMG this is awesome. - 9:04am
We've been playing for hours, and it doesn't feel like it at all. This is even more fun than I thought it would be. - 12:14pm
Pizza has arrived. This shit just got REAL. - 1:02pm
Sharing parmesan and red peppers with @pvponline, tweeting about it before he can. - 1:12pm
One day, I will sing again The Ballad of Rudy the Undead Hound ... - 4:14pm
Best. Gaming. Session. Ever. - 5:28pm
It turned out that my fears about messing up my character were unfounded. I did everything right, and over the course of our session it became clear that I hadn't made any stupid mistakes in his creation . . . in fact, he was kind of a bad ass. Also, I'm really proud of myself for doing everything old school, with books and paper and a whole bunch of not using a character generator to do all the heavy lifting. Wheaton's still got it, ladies. (Um. Not that most ladies I know, including my wife, care about this sort of thing or understand why [THING I CAN'T TALK ABOUT] and [OTHER THING I CAN'T TALK ABOUT] was so cool.)
If you listened to the first Penny Arcade Podcast and, like me, thought something like, "Man, I wish I could be part of that because it sounds like so much fun," I can happily report that we were correct. It was awesome, and I think the podcasts are going to be tremendously entertaining.
