Where did September go?
Has it been two months already?
A lot happened in August. Less happened in September, except my birthday, which was the same non-event it always is.
I wrote a review of Cartoon Action Hour: Season Two.
We went up to Muir Woods for an afternoon hike. It is one of the many Bay Area attractions that I had never experienced. It was much smaller than I anticipated and we covered the standard "easy" hike in a couple of hours. We may go back and do the harder trails once Terri can handle the inclines.
I have updated the Zines page with the past 4 months of A&E zines.
I haven't been working on Toaster, and instead got myself distracted by running a "modern day mystic shit" game. The first session didn't go so well and I rushed through the plot and didn't focus on the mood as I promised myself I would. Part of my problem is that I don't feel comfortable being indulgent with narration and atmosphere, especially when the PCs are still isolated from each other and if I spent 10 minutes on each PC, it'd be an hour between player turns. But I did manage to get the PCs together and hopefully now I can be a little more indulgent without feeling I'm wasting their time.
The Friday night gaming group (the only group I have going on at the moment) has managed to play several board games and it occurs to me that I should be talking more about them. I think I'll start writing concise 100-word opinions/impressions. These wouldn't be full reviews (that's what BoardGameGeek is for), and many will be based on a single play. One of my gripes it that we don't bring longer games back to the table and instead a new (to us) game is taught and played. So the impression pieces won't contain deep analysis or have the benefit of repeated plays. And since I generally hate writing session reports, I won't be doing those, either. Maybe I can make that a (semi-)regular feature to get my posting back on track.
We'll see.
A lot happened in August. Less happened in September, except my birthday, which was the same non-event it always is.
I wrote a review of Cartoon Action Hour: Season Two.
We went up to Muir Woods for an afternoon hike. It is one of the many Bay Area attractions that I had never experienced. It was much smaller than I anticipated and we covered the standard "easy" hike in a couple of hours. We may go back and do the harder trails once Terri can handle the inclines.
I have updated the Zines page with the past 4 months of A&E zines.
I haven't been working on Toaster, and instead got myself distracted by running a "modern day mystic shit" game. The first session didn't go so well and I rushed through the plot and didn't focus on the mood as I promised myself I would. Part of my problem is that I don't feel comfortable being indulgent with narration and atmosphere, especially when the PCs are still isolated from each other and if I spent 10 minutes on each PC, it'd be an hour between player turns. But I did manage to get the PCs together and hopefully now I can be a little more indulgent without feeling I'm wasting their time.
The Friday night gaming group (the only group I have going on at the moment) has managed to play several board games and it occurs to me that I should be talking more about them. I think I'll start writing concise 100-word opinions/impressions. These wouldn't be full reviews (that's what BoardGameGeek is for), and many will be based on a single play. One of my gripes it that we don't bring longer games back to the table and instead a new (to us) game is taught and played. So the impression pieces won't contain deep analysis or have the benefit of repeated plays. And since I generally hate writing session reports, I won't be doing those, either. Maybe I can make that a (semi-)regular feature to get my posting back on track.
We'll see.
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