On Saturday I took a trip to Legends Games & Comics to examine and purchase a copy of the D&D Heroscape Master Set: Battle for the Underdark hexagonal battle game. Heroscape is actually a Hasbro game of simplified battles, where two or more opponents construct small battle groups from existing characters and soldiers that all have point values — similar to constructing armies in a game like Warhammer Fantasy Battle, but on a far smaller scale. It does have its own rules, which seem simple enough to be fun, but I mostly bought it for the components: it comes with 50 hard-plastic hexagonal tiles, 10 creatures to use in battle, and a few item tokens. The main attraction for me was the tiles, as I've been interested in trying D&D using hexes instead of squares, but all the Dungeon Tiles sets are square. These hexagonal tiles are interlocking and come with different terrain features, including water, mountainous spires, grasslands, and the like.
Sunday was the day I'd been waiting to see, since I got together with some friends for the National Cherry Blossom Festival. I hadn't actually realized before that the National Cherry Blossom Festival is technically separate from the Sakura Matsuri Japanese Street Festival (桜まつり), which takes place next weekend, overlapping with the former. The first is a hanami (花見) run by its own nonprofit corporation, while the second is a street festival with exhibits, food, performances, and vendors organized primarily by The Japan-America Society of Washington DC. In any case, I managed to arrive at
The cherry blossoms were, of course, beautiful, as was the weather.
Being the first day in a few I actually took my methylphenidate — since my psychiatrist recommends only taking it as needed, so as not to create a dependency — I became extremely talkative throughout the day. I felt bad babbling endlessly at
At the end of the day,
Overall it was a good but tiring weekend, and thankfully I don't have much to do this week. I might like to store as much energy as I can for the weekend and see about making it to Yuri's Night after all.