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So the wife was pushing me to get out of the house and awa from my computer.

So I decided to embrace my inner geek. I had been trying out the Magic scene. However, the monetary investment in that game as a whole is a huge turn off. And unfortunately my trips to Dallas have frequently been falling on the days that would allow me to play a 'draft' game of Magic that is more about skill (and luck) vs how much $$$ you spend on your deck.

I haven't given up on the whole Magic scene, but definitel have not had the opportunity to pursue it as much as I would like to have.

So about the same time I also started looking for a group to join and play some D&D.

Since Gina's days off alternate every other weekend, I figured a Saturday or Sunday game would be good. However, our games have usually been Friday nights. Which are not quite a convenient as a saturday afternoon. We start at 7pm and end around 10 or 11pm.

We have lost 2 members of 7, but gained 3 more this past sessions, so we are actually +1 total. But tonight we were missing two folks.

I am a half-orc druid. To be quite honest my character sucks balls. I don't have any extremely excellent stats, and to some degree I have a few that are down right awful.

At the start of the party we had no healers. So I opted to play druid. Be a bit of a healer and eventually a powerful caster/fighter. However, in the meantime I suck. I can't fight really, and I don't have enough healing spells to really keep the party going past one or two combat encounters.

Mind you, our DM is a little twisted. He keeps throwing some tough stuff at us. So after combat we usually have to rest, heal and regain spells.

Anyway, I am now level 2. This will make things a little better, another couple of spells. And I think I get a new ability. At level 3 I get a new feat, that I am looking forward to.

So I have embraced my inner geek. I need to buy some newer D&D books though, im using version like 2.x.