Bundle of Holding -The Dark Eye MEGA

I've been following The Dark Eye for the better part of a decade. It looks to be a highly popular RPG in Germany and beyond, I just don't know if I NEED it. Of course, what does need have to do with anything RPG related ;)

The buy-in points of The Dark Eye MEGA Bundle of Holding are higher than most other Bundles of Holding, but you are getting more material than in other bundles. The Player Collection of The Dark Eye is 24.95 for 10 titles, and the GM Collection adds 12 titles for a total of just a hair over $45 at this moment.

Especially useful for players new to the game, this big new Megabundle draws from our two past Dark Eye offers (January 2018 and June 2020) and adds ten recent titles – everything you need to start exploring Aventuria, a rich and believable setting inspired by Europe's medieval lore, forbidding landscapes, and fairytale castles. For just US$24.95 you get all ten English-language titles in our Player Collection (retail value $106) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete The Dark Eye core rulebook (plus the Character Sheets Pack, Deluxe Character Sheets, Figure Flats, and the free Quickstart Rules); the Aventuria Armory, Armory of the Warring Kingdoms, and Magic of Aventuria sourcebooks; the Aventuria Almanac and Map Set; and the introductory solitaire adventure Conspiracy of Mages.

The Silver Guard adventure for The Dark Eye roleplaying gameAnd if you pay more than the threshold price of $45.29, you'll level up and also get our entire Game Master Collection with twelve more titles worth an additional $137.50, including the Aventuria Compendium (plus its Compendium Figure Flats); the Aventuria Bestiary and Gods of Aventuria sourcebooks; all six colorful scenarios in the 392-page Theater Knights campaign – I White Lake, II Blue Tome, III The Black Forest, IV Green Platoon, V Silver Guard, and VI Red Choir; the companion sourcebook Legacy of the Theater Knights; and The Dark Eye GM Screen with its Inns & Taverns booklet.

 

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Buildings on my Mind...

I have officially returned from my combination NTRPG Con/Business Trip only to find my domicile worse for the wear due to a series of storms, golf ball-sized hail, and a couple of tornados. Lucky for me the damage was just to my roof and a large spot of ceiling where the water made it's way in.

Not fun, but could definitely have been worse. Now when I double check what I expect to be a HUGE roof-specific deductible, I may feel differently, but for now my stuff...and more importantly my pets, are fine and I like to think I'm occasionally capable of seeing the big picture.

Of course, as these things do, thinking so much about my home weighs heavily when I'm trying to shift mental gears and think about what to post today. Thinking over the myriad of D&D characters I've played over the...decades (yep, I'm old) and one.....one kind of had a home, and I really don't recall any of my player's PCs ever having an "official" residence. Not one single murderhobo dwelling among the lot.....

....and I highly suspect that is closer to the norm for most D&D players.

A big reason, or I think a big part of the reason is simply that the vast majority of PCs don't get to the generalized double-digit levels required of them to build a "stronghold", not that I'm necessarily referring to a "stronghold" in the first place. Aside from that I'm guessing that people who want to play murderhobos want to do murderhobo stuff, and setting up a house is not on the typical KTATTS list.

Now I have seen parties of PCs band together to get a..... "clubhouse" of sorts to work out of, but definitely not a home.

Hmmm......now that I think about it, my one PC that was working on his home/library technically already owned a farmstead. I'm pretty sure I've already told the story about how my PC "bought the farm" at first level (was on my blog, not here), allowing the party successfully complete a four-hour tournament in something like 10 minutes.

Anyway, this one PC was working on building a library even though he wasn't high enough level to have a "stronghold", but I figured it'd take quite a few level's worth of adventuring to get enough resources to finish the thing. Once my PCs get a couple of levels in I like to imagine how, in a perfect game, their adventuring career (or life) would end. This guy was going to use his vast intellect to become basically a doctor....non-magical healer. His goal was to build a community and to build something since he was quite the destructive force as a magical murderhobo.

If I'm a bit off-base, which is not uncommon for me, and you have a need for building a "stronghold", I highly recommend a particular OOP sourcebook: Lord Flataroy's Guide to Fortifications. I loved using this book to plan out OSR building.....not sure I'd spend the $75 or so it's going for now, but if you keep your eyes out for a copy you might luck out....and no...Half Price Books doesn't have any listed.

Hopefully I'm also off-base that PCs building homesteads is more common than I think.....

Kickstarter - Action! System 2.0

When I saw Action! System 2.0 pop up in my Kickstarter feed, it took a few minutes to remember why it looked familiar. Then I remembered: Gold Rush Games. This was an interesting little system from the early days of D&D 3.0 that took just the OGL and released its own open ruleset. I have a PDF copy of the Action System rules on one of my external drives, but other than that, I don't remember much else about it.

According to the Kickstarter page:

The Action! System™ was the second commercially-supported set of tabletop RPG rules ever to be published under the first edition of the Open Game License (OGL). It was originally released by Gold Rush Games in 2001 and used by multiple publishers between the years 2001 and 2005. It is a generic system that was designed to be incredibly similar to a variety of late-90s RPGs, specifically to ones that were used in anime RPGs.

After using it for some home games starting in 2013, Neon Necromancer Games finally bought the rights to it in 2020 intending to publish a second edition for its twentieth anniversary and then, well... *gestures broadly to the news events of the past couple years*.

Now that a certain company is being evil [censored]holes about the Open Game License, we feel it is necessary to revive this OGL pioneer. The Action! System was an entirely new creation upon release, with no text taken from other "system references". The intention is that A!S 2.0 will be released both under the original OGL 1.0a as well as Paizo's new Open RPG Creative License (ORC) once it is ready and released. (In the event that the ORC license sucks we will also release it under another open license, such as Community Commons.

So, is a two-decade-old system that barely made a splash 20 years ago a good candidate for a Kickstarter refresh today? According to the funding I'm looking at, the answer is no. The Action! System 2.0 Kickstarter has $1,397 pledged of $7,500 goal with 4 days to go. It simply aint gonna happen.

Nostalgia doesn't work when one has no nostalgia for something. Ah well.

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Deal of the Day - The Isle of the Plangent Mage (OSE)

The Isle of the Plangent Mage is today's Deal of the Day. Normally 7.50 in PDF, but until tomorrow morning it is 3 bucks.

An idyllic cove harbours deep secrets. Magic and sound are entwined harmoniously, while dark things lurking in the depths rise to explore new avenues through previously locked portals. Adventurers will be changed as they explore the depths of the Undertower, unlock strange musical puzzles, and reveal the glorious treasures of the Isle of the Plangent Mage.

A fantasy adventure of sonic wonder for characters of 3rd to 5th level.

• 64 keyed areas, village description and NPCs, rumour table, loot summary, dungeon background info.
• Keyed in a quick-reference, bullet point format.
• Statted for Old-School Essentials (B/X), usable with any vintage adventure game.
• Unlabelled map included for VTT use.

 

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Deal of the Day - EZD6 Book of Quests

I really like the EZD6 System. Easy to grock with lots of potential, EZD6 fills that sweet spot. My only issue is that I was finding it difficult to write adventures for a system that I wasn't quite comfortable with yet.

The EZD6 Book of Quests solves that issue and then some. 18 Quests, at a discounted price of 5 bucks in PDF until tomorrow morning.

EZD6 has been wildly successful, exploding onto tabletops everywhere fast, fun play from the wild and wacky table of DM SCOTTY. Now, EZD6 fans can play 18 of Scotty's wildest quests, in a simple, plug-anywhere format that's easy to bring to players fast.

-150 page book

-18 complete quests, playable as one-offs or in a huge sequence

-Each quest complete with maps, NPCs, dialogue, monster stats, and a D20 'Details to Discover' table

-Art by Sean Bova and maps by Robert Rudnicki

A must-have book of adventures for the weirdo GM!

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Kickstarter - HYPERBOREA RPG Map

Sometimes the good things in life aren't simple or cheap. I'm looking at YOU Mister HYPERBOREA RPG Map. The canvas version of the map literally is a thing of beauty. I'm not sure I can justify picking one up in Canvas for $155 plus shipping, but really, who do I need to justify this with? Myself? That's an easy convincing to accomplish ;)

North Wind Adventures, producers of the HYPERBOREA RPG, are proud to present the new rendition of the Hyperborea Map, in high-gloss poster and canvas. Illustrated by Glynn Seal, this map brilliantly displays the whole of Hyperborea, a "flat earth" micro-setting for use with HYPERBOREA, a role-playing game of swords, sorcery, and weird science-fantasy.

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Humble Bundle - Star Wars - Legends, Myths, and the High Republic (Fiction)

My Star Wars fiction started with Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster. It's my understanding that Star Wars fiction from that era is no longer canon. I could be wrong. It's been decades since I've read any Star Wars fiction.

The current Star Wars Fiction Bundle, Legends, Myths, and the High Republic packages together a large digital collection of modern Star Wars fiction releases - 41 titles for 18 bucks. That's a lot of reading ;)

Discover tales of legendary Jedi heroes, Dark Side masters, and the galaxy’s most wretched hives of scum and villainy in this library of novels and fiction for Star Wars fans of all ages! Explore an era when the Jedi Order was at its prime in books from the best-selling High Republic series (Into the Dark). Read about the adventures of Padmé Amidala (Queen’s Peril), the rise and fall of Darth Vader, and the journeys of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

 

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Lazy Sunday Morning Gaming Shopping

Erik did me a bit of a solid last week (and tried again this week) to post for me last week because Sunday I had to spend the day travelling early am to an undisclosed location......basically I had to stay up after NTRPG's midnight auction and head out to the airport at 4AM. I knew that day of travelling was going to wreck me and my internet access at my destination was unknown at the time.

Anyway, I'm still at my undisclosed location and this morning was a lazy day so I decided to head on over to the next town and peruse the "sights".......

....yeah this town was....rather...crunchy. Like granola crunchy.....like they don't put up flags for Pride month 'cause the flags are up year-round and painted on the street already.

Meh, not a big deal except.....except the only place I could find open to get a bite to eat before the bookstore opened was a vegan café. Actually had no idea it was a vegan café at first, but hungry is hungry and vegan "wings" made out of cauliflower is not far off of decent bar food of fried cauliflower......

The great thing about these hippy (there was definitely a hippy vibe in places) areas is that they have some great hole-in-the-wall stores. Tons of tiny shops packed with stuff. I wandered into an art supply store and found some pens that I like, but in sizes I normally don't see, as well as my favorite mechanical pencil and replacement lead, both at better prices than I'm used to! Went ahead and picked up a little notebook and a fancy-schmancy (well, seemed like it) Japanese marker that just works different than what I'm used to.

Up the street was the book store. Wasn't quite what
I was hoping for, but I did find a few books for my Appendix N collection and another book (not shown) that I only had a PDF of. That book was "expensive", relatively speaking, but the other books were cheaper than I'd find at HPB, so a win in my book.

I'm so, sorry....that wasn't an intended pun.

This one book, With a Single Spell, is already in my collection, but one of the author's other books, set in the same world, is something I pretty much buy every time I see it in a store. I'll pick it up and just give it to the first friend I find out hasn't read it. I'm going to read this copy on this trip and then gift it like I do the other book......

While the bookstore was a draw, the real reason I went down to granola-town was to visit an indoor "flea market". It wasn't an indoor flea market, despite what they advertised. Instead it was basically two of these small store fronts linked together and stuffed with a few, pretty sure it was five, but there wasn't a firm boundary between three of the places. Lots of nice stuff, reasonably priced with the exception of the clothes. Evidently "vintage" clothes are worth more than common sense would lead one to believe.....

I found some cool stuff, most of it was too big to pick up and travel back home with, but I enjoyed looking at the one booth just stuffed with DVDs, Legos, and action figures. There was stuff I liked, but nothing that had to come home with me......until I turned to leave and saw a little bowl of dice stuffed in the corner of a large display case. What caught my eye were the Gamescience dice, but it looked like there was some Holmes set dice and a couple other old-assed dice.....along with a giant 12 sided d4.

Totally worth the $8. Those Gamescience D20's are numbered 0-9 twice and inked in two different colors.

Not a bad haul for a lazy Sunday morning!

Kickstarter - Delver 9: Old School RPG Resources for GMs and Players

I'm a huge fan of zines, even if I don't keep them in ANY semblance of order. They are literally everywhere around the house, and I often rediscover them some years after acquiring them. 

Somehow, eight issues of the Delver zine have been published before coming to my attention. Assuming Delver 9 hits the mark, I may be looking to acquire the prior issues.

Delver Issue #9 is 7 bucks in PDF, 11 plus 5 bucks shipping in the States for Print plus PDF.

The primary features of Delver magazine are the random charts and tables. Each issue will contain pages and pages of random charts that can be used before or during a session. Each page has a theme or subject, typically with four to six tables that pertain to that topic.

The secondary feature of each issue is the ready-to-go adventure, complete with maps, room descriptions, random encounters, and more. The adventure in Delver #9 is designed for 4 to 8 characters of level 5-6 or higher.

Finally, each issue will contain an article for GMs. Each article will be short and sweet and provide a GM with some useful points to ponder on between sessions. The current article for Delver #9 is titled RPGs as Wargames? and will cover thoughts on why the combat rules of wargames often trump those of RPGs and why blending a wargame and your favorite RPG might be a fun thing for you to try.

Delver #9 will start at a minimum of 36 pages, but the page count can go much higher depending on reached stretched goals that can push Delver #9 up in length.

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Bundle of Holding - Dragongrin (5e setting and campaign)

I really like dark fantasy settings. Even if I never run them, or I don't run the system they are built on, I can pull pieces out for my own campaign. I hadn't heard of Dragongrim prior to seeing it on Bundle of Holding, but at 14.95, even though it's for 5e, I find it very tempting.

Adventurer! This Dragongrin Quick Deal presents A Dead Man's Guide to Dragongrin, the tabletop dark-fantasy roleplaying campaign setting from Absolute Tabletop for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition and compatible rules systems. Evil reigns in the realm of Dragongrin, where once-free lands kneel to the Dismembered Lord and his tyrannical Lords of Ash. Only a few embattled heroes still oppose his dominion. With A Dead Man's Guide to Dragongrin, a comprehensive campaign setting guide and worldbuilding toolkit, you can forge your legend.

This all-new Quick Deal gives you the entire Dragongrin line for an unbeatable bargain price. For just US$14.95 you get all seven titles in our Dragongrin Collection (retail value $76) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete 471-page campaign corebook, A Dead Man's Guide to Dragongrin (plus the pay-what-you-want Character Creation Kit); four supplements – The Copper Jackals, Deepvault: Machinations of the Ancients, The Trapsmiths of Dragongrin, and The Tieflings of Dragongrin; and two other 5E Adventure Kits: Shadows Over Driftchapel and Oath of the Frozen King.

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Humble Bundle - Ultimate RPG Guides

A little bit of this and a little bit of that. Backstory Guides to Mixed-drink Guides to Random Encounters to Mythology to Random Encounters to Recipe Books to Dragons and more. Lots of inspiration for an affordable price with the Humble Bundle Ultimate RPG Guides Bundle.

Make your campaigns more epic, your heroes more mythic, and your game sessions more fun for the whole party with these books from Adams Media! This TTRPG treasure trove features 20+ digital guides to worldbuilding, coming up with great characters, concocting compelling challenges, being a legendary host, and lots more. Explore a library for players, DMs, and anyone who loves the art and craft of role-playing, and help support Worldreader with your purchase.

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Deal of the Day - Sandbox Generator

It isn't often that I look at a Deal of the Day and decide to go all in - Hardcover Print PLUS PDF, and therefore pay full price, and not the discounted price for just the PDF.

Well, today's Deal of the Day - Sandbox Generator is one of those rarities. Normally 12 bucks in PDF, but until tomorrow morning the Sandbox Generator is available in PDF for 7.20. The normal price for softcover plus PDF is 18 bucks, and hardcover plus PDF is 24 bucks, plus shipping in both cases.

Very much looking forward to taking the Sandbox Generator for a spin...

The Sandbox Generator is a simple but powerful tool for DMs. It allows you to easily create a world from scratch when you prepare your next campaign. It will provide you with all the necessary information about your world: from the biomes map, to a lord’s coat of arms and the menu of the local tavern! It is also convenient for solo players and DMs who want to generate their world during the game session.

This book aims to create a pseudo-feudal fantasy world and is meant to be used with your favorite OSR ruleset and bestiary.

New worlds await: they are only a few rolls away…

This product includes procedures, generators, tables and examples for:

• Hex maps (biomes, features, content, factions, encounters),
• Landmarks (natural, artificial and magical),
• Settlements (names, hamlets, villages, cities, castles, towers and abbeys),
• Monsters lairs,
• Dungeons and megadungeons,
• Coats of arms,
• Criminal organizations,
• Dragons,
• Guilds,
• Houses,
• NPCs,
• Taverns (including menus and signs),
• Wizards,
• Sea adventures.

This book is black and white, is in A5 format and contains more than 80 hand drawn (vectorized) illustrations. The PDF version is bookmarked.

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Bundle of Holding - Lex Arcana

Ah, lookie here! We have a Romanesque RPG that mixes history with things man was not meant to know. If only there were a way to ping Alyssa Faden. Oh course, she probably already knows about Lex Arcana. ;)

Vale, custos! This all-new Lex Arcana Bundle presents Lex Arcana, the tabletop historical-fantasy roleplaying game from Italian design team Quality Games (published by Acheron Games) of a magical Roman Empire that never fell. Travel the known world to study arcane lore, uncover conspiracies, and battle dangerous supernatural creatures. It's Cthulhu Invictus meets The X-Files – the HBO Max Rome series meets The Witcher. Dive into the mysteries and dangers of ancient Rome. The Emperor commands!

Co-designed by Francisco Nepitello (The One Ring), the beautiful Lex Arcana Second Edition rulebook was funded in a big September 2018 Kickstarter campaign. Get the complete 310-page rulebook, four gorgeous full-color setting guides, and ten scenarios for an unbeatable bargain price. For just US$17.95 you get all three full-color titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $65) as DRM-free ebooks, including the Lex Arcana core rulebook (plus the free Quickstarter) and the setting sourcebooks Italia and Encyclopedia Arcana.

Aegyptus supplement for Lex ArcanaAnd if you pay more than the threshold price of $32.20, you'll level up and also get our entire Bonus Collection with three more supplements worth an additional $56, including the campaign sourcebooks Dacia and Thracia and Aegyptus and the ten-scenario collection Mysteries of the Empire.

 

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Kickstarter - Tomb of Zines, a Storage Box for your Fantasy RPG Zines (Phil Reed)

I'm a huge fan of Phil Reed and his various Kickstarters. They are always a great value for your money, ship on time, and are universally useful. It doesn't hurt that I consider Phil a friend, but I'd be saying all of this regardless ;)

This time around, Phil is offering a box to hold your various zines - The Tomb of Zines. But it's not just a box, it's also gaming content. Imagine that...

If you've been collecting fantasy roleplaying game zines, then you've likely hit the same problem that many of us have: how do you store these things? The indie community does an incredible job of creating fun, entertaining game content in all sorts of sizes, shapes, and formats, but it can sometimes be challenging to figure out where and how to store all of these remarkable works of art.

That's where the Tomb of Zines comes into play! This storage box features a 6.25" x 9.25" x 2" space to carry your favorite zines. Better still, the box is more than just a box! Printed on the outside and inside of the box are random tables to assist the gamemaster in preparing quick encounters and packed with possible adventure ideas. The back of the box features a table that directs the GM to one of six different brochures included inside the box.

The six brochures are each 9" x 9" in size, double-sided, and folded down to 3" x 9" so that they fit neatly in the Tomb of Zines. These six brochures are packed in the box at the project launch. All six are written and ready for the editing process! 

• The Wizard's Secrets - 2d12 table. What secret does the wizard reveal before he dies?
• The Wizard's Requests - 2d10 table. What does the wizard ask of the party?
• The Wizard's Demands - 2d20 table. What does the wizard demand of the adventures?
• The Wizard's Summons - 5d6 table. What terrible or frightening thing has the wizard summoned?
• The Wizard's Tales - 1d12 table. What story does the wizard tell the heroes?
• The Wizard's Attacks - 1d20 table. Exactly how does the wizard attack theadventurers?

 

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Bundle of Holding - Sorcery & Super Science

I remember being excited about the release of Sorcery & Super Science well over a decade ago. The setting was interesting and I can recall nothing about the game engine itself. Not a surprise, I have purchased way too many RPG products over the intervening.

I AM surprised that we are seeing a Sorcery & Super Science Bundle prior to seeing a Torg bundle, an IP with actual history being it, but maybe that's because I'm looking at my original Torg box on my shelf and wishing for more material for the setting at an affordable price point.

In any case, the Sorcery & Super Science Bundle can be had for a mere 12.95, and I suspect much of the support material could be wedged into a Mutant Crawl Classics or Mutant Future campaign without much work.

Adventurer! This Sorcery & Super Science Quick Deal presents the 2010 gonzo-apocalypse tabletop science-fantasy roleplaying game Sorcery & Super Science from Joseph (Arden Vul) Browning at Expeditious Retreat Press. After a worldwide catastrophe, the Moon's in pieces and even time is broken. It is a dangerous new world, where advanced technology exists alongside mystic artifacts – where super-scientists use their knowledge to create tools for trade, health, and combat – where mutants pit their powers against Winged Carnivorous Mastodons and other terrors of the wilds. Flex your mutated muscles, whisper the words of long-dead sorcerers, or repair the technology of a world long gone. Get your Thundaar on, because the world under the shattered moon is yours to explore.

This all-new Quick Deal presents Expeditious Retreat's complete S&SS RPG line, plus seven novels, for an unbeatable bargain price. For just US$12.95 you get all twenty-one titles in our Super Science Collection (retail value $61) as DRM-free ebooks, including .PDFs of the complete Sorcery & Super Science! corebook; the ZZZ Quick Guide to North America location sourcebook; ten small supplements with Characters, Creatures, and Objects Below the Shattered Moon; the adventures Scourge of the Mall Rats and Vulture Men of Waukegan; and ePub versions of the seven-novel Shattered Moon series.

 

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NTRPG Con - Its a Wrap!

It's pretty much a wrap here at NTRPG Con. All that is left is the final goodbyes, to be said at the hotel bar in a few, after a few drinks and then heading off to bed. We need to catch the 7 am shuttle to the airport in the morning.

To say NTRPG Con was amazing this year would be an understatement. It broke attendance records - 517 attendees if I recall correctly - and more first-timers than I can ever remember. 

A reoccurring note from the new attendees? Even for first-timers, NTRPG Con is like being with family. The environment is relaxed, the people are welcoming, the OSR vibe is strong as hell, and the weekend went by way too fast. Isn't that always the way.

As an aside, I met well over a dozen attendees that told me not only was this their first time at NTRPG Con, but that they learned about the con due to The Tavern's YouTube Channel. Now THAT is a good use of one's influence ;)

If I have one regret, it's that I didn't get pics with all of the people I wish I had. James Raggi and Courtney Campbell are at the top of my "missed pics list", but there are others. Still, I got some quality time in with both, so my complaints are minimal. Heh!

So glad I finally caught up with Kelsey Dionne of ShadowDark fame and fortune today, after a weekend of the two of us constantly missing each other. Just as awesome in person as she is online, if not more so. Her wife is pretty cool too! Look for more ShadowDark coverage on the blog and the YouTube Channel, and hopefully a return of Kelsey for another Talking Crit Live. There is simply so much for us to talk about.

Got to meet Aaron Koelman face-to-face for the first time. Simply an amazing man. I truly appreciate everything this community has done to support Aaron and his family in these difficult times. We connect on many levels, and for that, I consider myself blessed.

Alright, time for a mini-photo dump: