From a gaming point of view?
Recently I've been trying to get my youngest son (11 years old) away from the computer games and more towards RPGs, Board Games, anything creative to make him use his brain more instead of his infernal youngster twitchy reflexes that have finally started to make mine seem like they've slowed down after a life time of playing video games. Yes, at 50 I have to admit that I may have to hand over the 'crown' to a young pretender after kicking hiss ass on twitchy shooter games for the last few years. I was raised on Space Invaders, Pac Man, Phoenix, Gorf and more besides, through every home computer era and now concede that my reflexes ain't what they used to be. Tis a sad thing but time marches on us all.
I digress. Where was... ah. In my efforts to get him interested in other things we went to the Royal Armouries in Leeds (UK). About 20 minutes drive away, free to get in, wander around and see how our ancestors devised more creative ways to kill one another. Unfortunately they have the Tudor era on at the moment when I was really wanting to have a look at Medieval stuff. The other problem is that it's mostly behind glass cases (probably a good thing. Explaining why 'one of our zweihanders is missing' and screams as an 11 year old runs amok hacking at the armoured dummies is probably not a good thing.)
I've put a few pics up but they are rubbish. I have many more but they need trimming and sifting through.
Another thing I saw this morning was Middleham Castle. It's more of a ruin but walking distance from the girlfriends second home and it conjures images of haunted ruins and orcs lying in wait, or whatever.
So the question, do you live near anything interesting from a gaming perspective and can you put some pics up?
This illustrates the problem. With everything behind a glass case the pictures are a bit rubbish really.
One thing that struck me was how small Medieval warriors were. There was one suit of armour 'made for a large knight at 6'3" ' and it looked to be somewhat of a squeeze for me. The rest my son could fit in. And he wanted to try.
Recently I've been trying to get my youngest son (11 years old) away from the computer games and more towards RPGs, Board Games, anything creative to make him use his brain more instead of his infernal youngster twitchy reflexes that have finally started to make mine seem like they've slowed down after a life time of playing video games. Yes, at 50 I have to admit that I may have to hand over the 'crown' to a young pretender after kicking hiss ass on twitchy shooter games for the last few years. I was raised on Space Invaders, Pac Man, Phoenix, Gorf and more besides, through every home computer era and now concede that my reflexes ain't what they used to be. Tis a sad thing but time marches on us all.
I digress. Where was... ah. In my efforts to get him interested in other things we went to the Royal Armouries in Leeds (UK). About 20 minutes drive away, free to get in, wander around and see how our ancestors devised more creative ways to kill one another. Unfortunately they have the Tudor era on at the moment when I was really wanting to have a look at Medieval stuff. The other problem is that it's mostly behind glass cases (probably a good thing. Explaining why 'one of our zweihanders is missing' and screams as an 11 year old runs amok hacking at the armoured dummies is probably not a good thing.)
I've put a few pics up but they are rubbish. I have many more but they need trimming and sifting through.
Another thing I saw this morning was Middleham Castle. It's more of a ruin but walking distance from the girlfriends second home and it conjures images of haunted ruins and orcs lying in wait, or whatever.
So the question, do you live near anything interesting from a gaming perspective and can you put some pics up?
This illustrates the problem. With everything behind a glass case the pictures are a bit rubbish really.
One thing that struck me was how small Medieval warriors were. There was one suit of armour 'made for a large knight at 6'3" ' and it looked to be somewhat of a squeeze for me. The rest my son could fit in. And he wanted to try.