aka Blog v4.0
This morning I cancelled my preorders for Jedi: Fallen Order, Cyberpunk 2077, and the Sega Genesis retro console.
I just can’t play these games anymore.
The ones I currently own have gotten so little playtime that they may as well be shrink wrapped.
Granted, my arthritis has been less painful in the last couple of days, but it’s still there.
Getting older sucks.
Recap of a week+ off from work.
3/4 – Start of a week off from work. Not much happened on Monday.
3/5 – Testing day for… reasons. Mostly an assessment of how I deal with computer support issues and stuff like that. Visited a comics/toys store on Geary, which I’d never been to before. Almost bought a really expensive Mazinger Z import from Japan, but talked myself out of it.
I finally watched Crazy Rich Asians. Good movie.
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Clean up continues around the house. More trips to Goodwill are planned in the future.
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The 1967 San Francisco Giants replay is finally finished. I’m moving on to the 1939 New York Giants replay and continuing the 1917 MLB replay.
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February is right around the corner, meaning my birthday is coming up. This year it falls on a Saturday, and will be our monthly Games Night.
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TNT has started showing Rogue One almost every other day.
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I’ve been feeling crappy over the last few days, so much so that I’ve skipped my daily elliptical for a couple of days.
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I forgot to get a haircut this past weekend.
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I really do fear commitment.
Okay, we’re not actually playing a Cowboy Bebop RPG, we’re playing Traveller.
But this gaming session actually felt… right.
The first couple of times we played Traveller, it felt off. I even told the group that the premade adventure felt more like I was railroading the party, more than I usually see in these types of adventures.
There was also a noticeable lack of conflict. Specifically, no combat.
The adventure kept calling for skill rolls as they got their salvaged spaceship up and running out of an active volcano.
Once it was over, not a single initiative roll was made. No to hit rolls, no damage rolls.
This would have made for an interesting pilot episode of some sci-fi series, I suppose.
I read through yesterday’s adventure well over a month ago, and then skimmed over it this past week.
That’s when I remembered one of the lessons I learned (and seemed to forget) when running a role-playing game: as GM/DM/referee/overseer/etc. your job is not to play the adventure vs. the player characters, your job is to help facilitate the shared story using the adventure.
So I pretty much used the adventure as set up while winging it, inserting plot elements were necessary.
And there was combat. With wolves. Or wolf-like predators.
After this session ended, I felt much better with the Traveller system, no longer feeling ‘off’.
Heck, if these characters ever find themselves chasing bounties…
