This is something I've been saying for more years than I can remember. Role-playing is very good for kids and they actually learn from it and improve as students. This is a wonderful article about a teacher in Oakland that found this out as well. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_130/2763-No-Cleric-Left-Behind It is a great article and validates something I've been telling people for years. In fact, ...
I have seen more and more the excuse that people make for errors in posts is lack of sleep or being tired. It is actually something of an epidemic it seems as I see it everywhere in every forum I frequent or visit. It seems that everyone is lacking sleep or always tired. It is rare, or perhaps non existent, to see a post that says simply "I screwed up because I'm not good at math" or "Oops, I wasn't paying attention" or "I really need to learn the proofread before posting". ...
I was playing around with Poser and experimenting with a cool new tutorial I found. I wanted to see the effect on a superhero this is what I came up with. I think it has some potential.
This would be my first blog to the Hero Blogs, and I've decided that I'm going to keep things very gaming centric. I already have a LiveJournal blog and will likely use that more than this one, but gaming related stuff I'll probably cross post here. So in recent months I have been getting into Virtual Table Top software and gaming. I am currently playing in an ORPG and a MapTool game. Both are Hero system, with the exception of an additional MapTool game that uses the Savage Worlds ...