Good day gamers,

Busy, busy, busy as always…

• Political mail at the Post Office gave me a ton of overtime last week and Monday and Tuesday this week. It was amazing how much NY State candidate advertisements I delivered. So many of them were out of order and couldn’t be sorted by the computer and had to be sorted by hand. I made a lot of money taking care of these, but it was annoying. 🙂
• Been playing Tank Duel, Unconditional Surrender, Dominions 5, Close Combat, Jaipur, Potions Please, D&D, Call of Cthulhu, Down Force and Carcassonne.
• Donated a Spooky Reading to Threadraiders that was raising money for ExtraLife. Find it here on my YouTube Channel (Please subscribe) or compiled with all the other stories here.
• Donated to ExtraLife 24-hour Pathfinder event run by Rob Dixon. Link here.
• Ginger runs a Church Service on Sunday mornings at 11am. Find it here on Twitch.

Election: The election is over! Finally. A lot of waiting around. No matter how you voted, we will now need to find a way to talk civilly going forward. I have posted a few things on social media and was immediately attacked for what I have written. I have had to delete posts. It’s very annoying. Why can’t we talk and maybe more importantly listen? It will take time for our country to heal. But first, we have to crush this pandemic. Then we can start to gather again, play some games, gather and go out to eat safely and once again do the things we are missing. Now that I posted this, I may get a message or two saying the election is not over and there are lawsuits to follow. That may be true, but from what I have seen so far, there is little if any evidence of fraud, so I am declaring the election is over. Take it or leave it.

Election Part 2: My brother, Stan VanderWerf, won his second term as El Paso County Commissioner in Colorado. His election website is here. I’m curious if he will seek higher office when this term is up. I guess we will see.

Podcasts: I listen to a LOT of podcasts of various interests. Here is a small list. You can search for them on Google. It would take me a long time to put up the links. They are in no particular order. However, I suggest all of these and more:

• Reliably Chaotic – RPG play, GM is from Long Island.
• Fear the Boot – RPG talk show.
• The D6 Generation – Gaming talk show. I went to college with one of the hosts.
• Lore – Aaron Mahnke, 20 minute episodes about spooky stuff.
• Rachel Maddow – News
• Brian Williams – News
• Rumble by Michael Moore – Commentary
• Bear Brook – True Crime
• 99% Invisible – Design podcast with super cool topics.
• Cabinet of Curiosities – Aaron Mahnke, very short spooky stories
• Bag Man – Rachel Maddow about LBJ
• Dan Carlos – History, all of his stuff is GREAT.
• Long Island Retro Gaming – Video Games, brought to you by local Long Islanders
• Music Production Podcast – Brian Funk, local Long Islander
• NALC – My Union Podcast
• The Paranormal Podcast – I just started listening to this. I’m into studying the paranormal. I consider myself an amateur scientist of the unknown.
• Stuff Mom Never Told You – Great topics, short, some geared towards women’s issues
• Stuff You Should Know – Great topics and I have learned a lot.
• The ACE Report – I’m featured as one of the guests.
• The Adventure Zome – Met some of the hosts on the JoCo Cruise.
• The Dice Tower – Good podcast about mostly board gaming. Was in South Korea at same time they started this podcast in South Korea.
• The Ezra Klein Show – Only listened to a few episodes so far, but seems great.
• The Frontline Dispatch – It’s Frontline, how can it not be good.
• The Geek Box – Most of the topics covered don’t peak my interest, but I wanted to get some different perspectives on Geek topics that I don’t know much about. Good.
• The Secret Cabal Gaming Podcast – Great.
• The Spiel – Gaming podcast. Very good.
• Toy Rage – Haven’t listened to too many episodes yet, but done by local Long Islanders.
• Wonderful – Only listened to two episodes, but some of my friends say this is an amazing podcast done by a married couple. There was a fair amount of swearing in the first couple episodes.

I’d love to hear about podcasts you listen to. Email me at Dave@GameMasterGames.com

Thank you for making it to the end of another Game Master Dave’s Semi-Daily Dispatches! Give yourself 100 XP and until we meet again, across the internet, keep you headphones dry, your podcast players ready and your batteries charged!

Foxy, “David Dear, you are not listening to any podcasts about the rodent rabbits. I think it’s time you take over more of the baby, ummm, bunny sitting responsibilities here.”

Lambie, “That was some dope stuff about past life regression on that para podcast. I wonder if I was a lion in a previous incant. Far out.”

Snuggle Bunny, “Boo boo, where is dat chokalat cake you got for Mama?”

Chester, “Chester.”