Yesterday was my last day visiting Nath.

In reality it’s more like half a day as I leave at midday to avoid traffic (especially the M25 leg), and to get back early enough for Mum who is on dog sitting duties. Apparently the two little horrors play her up rotten during the night!

After getting Nathan to empty and load up his dishwasher we had time for a game before I had to hit the road.

Nathan chose a favourite of ours 7 Wonders Duel.

This was a game that went to the wire, unlike our previous game during my last visit.

There was some take that with me stealing one of Nathan’s unbuilt wonders using a deity, Nathan destroying a couple of my cards (very annoying).

I did manage to build all four of my wonders.

However the game did go all three ages and to the final scoring.

I managed to scrape a win by two whole points.

And that was it. Time to pack away the game. Gather my things, and say our farewells.

I hate saying good bye to Nathan. I love our time together so much. I wish we were closer (geographically) so I could see him more often.

For those interested for the last couple of weeks I’ve been listening to Wil Wheaton’s Still Just A Geek (thanks to my friend Duncan for telling me about it). And on the trip down to see Nath this is what I was listening to.

It’s been a very hard listen on a personal level.

There was much that Wil talked about that resonated with me and my life experiences.

The journey back was used to catch up on a podcast or two.

With the imminent release of the next WotC D&D book, Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen I wanted to listen to some of the reviews/first looks to see if I should cancel my pre-order on Amazon.

It was the reviews (podcasts and youtube) that warned me about Spelljammer not being worth the money, falling short on what a DM might need compared to books like Eberron.

I’m not cancelling my order. But I’m glad I bought the campaign source book because it’s not the product I really wanted.

My ideal product would have been a Dragonlance version of the Eberron book. In reality it looks more like we are getting something in line with Avernus.

However it has stuff that will still be useful in running a homebrew campaign in the Dragonlance universe.