Dungeons & Dragons: 4th Edition Books

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It finally came!!!

I made the plunge and picked up the Dungeons and Dragons Core Rulebook Gift Set, 4th Edition containing all three core rulebooks. I also picked up some D&D Miniatures. I have been spending so much time researching Dungeons & Dragons on the internet, and talking about it with friends that I feel confident that picking up these D&D books will not be a waist of time or money. I can’t wait to get starting on them.

The Dungeons & Dragons books, as well as the Miniatures, came very well packed from Amazon.com. ( As you can see below ) The miniatures are very well panted and came with their own mini game as well. So for the cost it’s a great value.

The Dungeons & Dragons Core Rulebook Gift Set came in very nice, durable slipcase. All the books are hard cover. After flipping through them a few times these books do feel like they could take a beating and not fall apart on you.

To be continued…

Book Review: The Tipping Point

thetippingpointI just finished The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell. This is a book that I learned a lot from, cover to cover. I asked my brother Abe, to check it out, and after a couple of chapters he put the book down stating that it was just “Chaos Theory” and he did not want to continue reading something he already understood.

Regardless, I felt the book to be a good read and I gleamed a lot from it. Things like the rule of 150 and how the mind can only handle no more then 7 things at one time.

Tipping points are “the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable.”Gladwell defines a tipping point as a sociological term: “the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point.” The book seeks to explain and describe the “mysterious” sociological changes that mark everyday life. As Gladwell states, “Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread like viruses do.” The examples of such changes in his book include the rise in popularity and sales of Hush Puppies shoes in the mid-1990s and the precipitous drop in the New York City crime rate after 1990.

Washginton Trip Pictures

I just got back from a week long trip in Washington State visiting family. I took some very random photos with my mobile phone while I was on Guemes Island and Anacorties. I thought I might share them.