Afternoon Tea with The Modest Insomniac Facebook Application - Dungeon & Dragons: Tiny Adventures

Afternoon Tea with The Modest Insomniac:

I met up with one of my Facebook friends for the first time for an afternoon tea whom I shall henceforth name as The Modest Insomnia because she is suffering from some sleep problems but has been modest about how she describes herself and her life.

We met at an undisclosed Coffee Bean outlet to order some hot caramel tea and double chocolate ice-blended on a Saturday afternoon and settled down chit-chatting about online auctions, foreign immigrants in Singapore, books and work for about an hour before hopping over to one of the community libraries to try and find some essayist from Taiwan whose works she highly recommended to me. Unfortunately, those books were on loan and we have to find them some other time.

We walked around and found an ice-cream parlor and decided to try out some of the flavors offered - Rum and Raisins and another flavor which I had given up trying to spell (P....something) and a second hour was spent there eating and talking about countries with cold weather, shopping, Facebooking and other small talk.

The afternoon tea concluded and we went about our own ways as the Modest Insomniac was trying to look for some stylish winter clothes for her overseas work assignment at the end of the year. Compared to some of the really demanding people I have met up with, the Modest Insomniac is a nice enough person who can joke around with and I suppose she will be a definite candidate when the next opportunity for a leisure afternoon out comes along.


Facebook Application - Dungeons & Dragons: Tiny Adventures

I am currently playing a game using a Facebook application called Dungeons and Dragons: Tiny Adventures and it brings back fond memories of how the original board game was played during my younger school days. Dungeons and Dragons are considered by many experienced role-playing gamers as one of the first organized formats where the genre itself was created from.

Though this application is a mere simplified version of the original, the player still gets his/her share of fun deciding which class of character to play and by going on quests and adventures, gain experience and more importantly, valuable and powerful equipment to use until the character retires at level 11. The application uses a method where one can transfer one piece of equipment or weapon from a previous-generation character to the next-generation character.

My current character is a 3rd-generation Human Druid called Earthmaius who did quite badly for his earlier character levels but slowly gained strength and stability. The two characters which I used were an Eladrin Female Paladin and a Male Dragonborn Warrior. Earthmaius now packs quite a punch at his late stage development and is ready to retire and pass on one of the game's most valuable item called the Mithral Shirt of Corellon.

Personally, I would recommend this game to my blog readers who have an interest in understanding how Dungeon and Dragons works in a simplified and easy-to-understand application to try out the game, which does not really require much maintenance and attention since whenever the character is out on adventure, there is almost nothing much to do except wait for the adventure's encounters are over, occasionally switching equipment only if one prefers to micro-manage one's character.

Overall, it provides some good entertainment because whenever the character succeeds or fails an encounter in an adventure, there will be paragraphs describing the characters' intelligent or foolhardy actions, which makes for some reading fun. Here's an example:

Encounter 3: Castle (Constructs)

While searching one of the impossibly many rooms of the wizards tower, Earthmaius found a seven foot tall, half-sculpted clay statue of a dragonborn warrior. The lower portion of its left arm and the left side of its chest and head were still unsculpted. However, its unfinished state did not stop it from lurching to life and attacking Earthmaius.

Earthmaius made an Attack Bonus check with a difficulty of 28 . . . and rolled 30

The golem slammed its fist into Earthmaius's chest, knocking him against the wall. For his reply, Earthmaius plagued it in its head. The creature's half-formed head smacked against the ground and the battle was won. Earthmaius continued his search, content that he was now truly alone in the room.

Earthmaius took 6 damage.

Earthmaius received 153 XP and 33 gold.

Earthmaius received a Dynamic Belt.