When last we left our weekly Game Day, our Ravenloft campaign was slugging along, pitting a heroic band of adventurers against the monstrous horrors of the fading land of Count Straud. It’s based on Expedition to Castle Ravenloft an old school, 1st-edition style monster-crawl in which role-playing is minimized, and encounters with level draining undead are maximized.

We knew this getting into it, and in spite of the fact that most of us were getting burned out on the 3E combat mechanics, we plunged ahead anyway for nostalgia’s sake. At the same time, we were running a superheroes campaign using the Mutants & Masterminds rules, and loving the largely free-form, role-playing intensive style of play.

My friends (and fellow gamers) are joining the blogosphere in force. Erilar's Day in the Life of a Gamer has returned from hiatus with posts about Mass Effect, holiday gaming goodness, and a test drive of Burnout: Paradise City.

Meanwhile over at Books Like Dust, Damon continues to chronicle his efforts to get through his reading pile, including Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II and Ursula Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness.

And finally, Cory's launched The Fat Cat Inn blog to chronicle his geek life and New Year's resolutions. First up is a post outlining his goals for 2008, which includes one objective I think most geeks can relate to: losing weight.