This week's Game Day sees us returning to role-playing with Khelez-Mar: The Dwarven Imperative. If memory serves, our last adventure saw the dwarves at the cusp of entering the Obsidian Maze, a sprawling subterranean dungeon in the Drachensgrab Hills of the Pomarj in the World of Greyhawk. It's been years since our campaign ventured back into one of Greyhawk's largest death traps, and the last expedition was run by me. I'm looking forward to seeing what our current game master, Evil Genius, does with the old dungeon.

It's been a tough two weeks, with a lot of long hours at work, which caused me to fall back on my old bad habits ... namely skipping lunch (or rather, eating at my desk) and not exercising. The excuses are legion -- working too late, exhausted from wrangling the kids into bed, tired from a day of trying to do too much, etc. -- but all have managed to throw me off my game. Having two kids doesn't help -- they add a burst of exhausting confusion to the end of the day, and 12 hours spent with the kids can make Sue as stressed as me.

Issue 43 of Mongoose Publishing's twin PDF magazines Signs & Portents Roleplayer and Wargamer is online and ready for download from http://www.mongoosepublishing.com. Writeth Mongoose:

Signs & Portents Wargamer 43
Another packed issue for wargamers this month! For A Call to Arms, there
are experimental rules on utilising Hyperspace, Tactics for the Frontline,
full rules for the Techno Mage Pinnace and the other newly released ships, a
battle report pitting the pak'ma'ra against the Dilgar, and a complete
in-depth preview of the forthcoming second edition of the game. Whew! Our
other games have not been abandoned either. For Victory at Sea, there is a
complete mini-campaign , Hunting the Beast, featuring the Royal Navy hunting