You know that feeling you get when you're planning you're vacation, and you can't really contain your excitement because you know it's gonna be an awesome trip? Well, that's similar to what I'm feeling right now, and I'll tell you why.

It all started when I was reading a blog post by KnightsofRound that he put up about a month ago. He mentioned that he was playing Diablo II: Lord of Destruction sort of on and off. Now at this point, I hadn't really heard too much about the Diablo series, and I wasn't too interested. But in between the time of me reading that blog and now, I've sortof been reading up on the franchise, and I gradually became more interested, particularly over the past week with all the rumors flying about regarding the 2008 Blizzard WorldWide Invitational. After hearing such various theories on the splash pages that had refreshed with a new image each passing day of this past week on the Official Blizzard website that I had seen myself, I began hoping that it was in fact Diablo III that was going to be announced today. And sure enough, it was.

So since I figure that while StarCraft II was announced over a year ago, and it is still yet to be released, or even have a scheduled release date, Diablo III is way off in the distance, and most likely won't be released until sometime after StarCraft II hits the store shelves. This will give me plenty of time to catch myself up on the series, and here's my plan for going about doing this.

My birthday is just over a month from now, and I'm putting the Diablo Battle Chest at the top of my list. This package includes the first two games and the expansion pack, along with the strategy guide. Once I get this, I can start getting caught up on the series in this order.

- Diablo
- Diablo II
- Diablo II: Lord of Destruction

Then, once I've beaten all three of those, I'm gonna read all seven of the books that are out in the order that they were published.

- Diablo: Legacy of Blood
- Diablo: The Black Road
- Diablo: The Kingdom of Shadow
- Diablo: Moon of the Spider
- Diablo: The Sin War Trilogy, Book One - Birthright
- Diablo: The Sin War Trilogy, Book Two - Scales of the Serpent
- Diablo: The Sin War Trilogy, Book Three - The Veiled Prophet
...all of which were written by Richard A. Knaak, except the second on the list, which was in fact written by Mel Odom.

So yeah, that's my masterminded plan on getting into the Diablo series and getting ready for Diablo III, lol.

Peace