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Marvel Multiverse Table Top Role-Playing Game - Summer 2023

  A new Marvel TTRPG is heading our way for Summer 2023. I have some really fond memories of the Marvel Superheroes Roleplaying game put out by TSR in the 1980's. It was right along side Dungeons & Dragons as one of my introductory games to ttrpgs. This new game looks to be based purely on a six-sided dice system. The playtest rulebook for the game is available now for anyone who wants to run an early version of the game through its paces before the finalized version comes out next year. I'll admit I'm curious enough make that purchase myself. Here is the official press release from Marvel:  MARVEL LAUNCHING CORE RULEBOOK FOR NEW TABLETOP ROLE-PLAYING GAME IN SUMMER 2023   ‘MARVEL MULTIVERSE ROLE-PLAYING GAME: CORE RULEBOOK’ AVAILABLE JUNE 2023   FOLLOWED BY ‘MARVEL MULTIVERSE ROLE-PLAYING GAME: THE CATACLYSM OF KANG’ AVAILABLE JULY 2023     Use the D616 game system to embody your favorite Super Heroes and Super Villains!     New York, NY— August 22, 2022 –  New adventu
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Washington DC's Native Cocktail: The Rickey


Yep a post that isn't about comic books or movies, I like to throw a curveball now and then when something catches my eye. As someone who was born in DC and works here everyday I thought I should report that the Rickey is getting its due as the native cocktail of Washington, DC. According to a story on the AP today, DC Councilmember Jack Evans will proclaim July as the official month of the Rickey in DC. The drink traces its origins back to the 1880's where it was created at Shoomakers as a slight modificaton to Colonel Joe Rickey's morning cocktail of choice: whisky, water and lemon or as he called it his "morning mornin'. People would ask for what the Rickey was drinking, bartenders at Shoomakers started making the drink known as the "Rickey" with lime when it was requested. Versions of the recipe are out there that are made with Gin or flavored with something else other than a lime.

In articles on the drink Colonel Rickey was against the idea of using anything but whiskey. He actually claimed to have never put a rickey to his lips, always still preferring the taste of lemon over the lime used by the bartenders at Shoomaker's.





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Wine Enthusiast Magazine
Yesteryear Once More
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