weekend!
I tried to quit early but am only now getting rolling with my weekend. But it is still my weekend!
I've started warming up for toys ... if I start up the Paris Commune game again tonight it will be difficult to quiet all the voices in my head. Last night I was up so late for a work night, continuing to play the game. It is great fun! I'd love to play it with a group someday, but it requires a commitment to the narrative that is more like D&D than a regular board or card game. It is pretty much "make your own adventure", with far fewer rules than D&D. As you get further into the game, it loosens what few rules it has, giving you cards as mere "suggestions" for what happens next.
The game probably has some replay value from having 18 characters to choose from, and more situation cards than you can see in one game. I intentionally picked characters who have a lot of overlapping relationships with each other because I wanted a more tight-knit narrative. I've done a lot of "setting up" of this game rather than playing cards at random, because I wanted to make it more of a story I could tell. Practice my fiction writing.
I have not looked ahead at the upcoming cards, however, I have no idea what's happening next, I'm truly role playing the game at each round, but it burns a lot of brain cells to role play 8 characters, plus the 4 players who are playing the characters.
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I remember playing the first episode of Gloomhaven with T & B and role playing my character instead of optimizing and they sorta freaked out on me, "Why are you doing that!" I was role playing! Maybe I should try to find a regular group of role players to game with. But I think the frequency would have to be only on weekends, and perhaps only once per month. I dunno. Maybe if in the future I lived with a real board gamer instead of a video gamer LOL. There are video role-playing games but they lack the spontaneity of a tabletop game, options are constrained by the game, even in the open world games you're still punching buttons to make choices instead of playing free form with language and creativity. Wtith a tabletop you can just let the creativity fly on all sides and the facilitator can let the rules slide when appropriate for the narrative.
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I'm probably not running in the morning, it will be all I can do to get to the car service appointment at 8am after I play with toys tonight. But then I'll have the rest of Friday to myself. I think the way I've scheduled this week has worked well. Things like dentist, massage, car appointment, to get me out of the house and interacting with people. A game session on Saturday so the entire weekend isn't just me by myself. Maybe I'm getting better at this. But next week I have nothing on the calendar yet except for my monkeypox shot. I'll want to do something social on a couple of the evenings, and something social on the weekend. However, I do not control other people's schedules, and a lot of people are still out of town or otherwise busy, so I'll just have to see what happens.
So far, socially, I feel like more of a maker than a taker. Perhaps I'll get more flexible as time goes by.
Also ... this monkeypox stuff is definitely putting a crimp in my desire to meet new people. But after I receive the first shot at least I'll have a head start on the real virus. The vaccines for monkeypox are often used after a person has been exposed, and they have some efficacy as post-exposure treatments, so, maybe I'll feel like I can risk meeting one person at a time after a discussion about what they've been up to. I dunno, let's get past that first shot, Bug.
OK, toys, music, and porn for a while. Maybe hot tub for a while after dark. In bed by midnight, with an alarm for 6am.
I've started warming up for toys ... if I start up the Paris Commune game again tonight it will be difficult to quiet all the voices in my head. Last night I was up so late for a work night, continuing to play the game. It is great fun! I'd love to play it with a group someday, but it requires a commitment to the narrative that is more like D&D than a regular board or card game. It is pretty much "make your own adventure", with far fewer rules than D&D. As you get further into the game, it loosens what few rules it has, giving you cards as mere "suggestions" for what happens next.
The game probably has some replay value from having 18 characters to choose from, and more situation cards than you can see in one game. I intentionally picked characters who have a lot of overlapping relationships with each other because I wanted a more tight-knit narrative. I've done a lot of "setting up" of this game rather than playing cards at random, because I wanted to make it more of a story I could tell. Practice my fiction writing.
I have not looked ahead at the upcoming cards, however, I have no idea what's happening next, I'm truly role playing the game at each round, but it burns a lot of brain cells to role play 8 characters, plus the 4 players who are playing the characters.
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I remember playing the first episode of Gloomhaven with T & B and role playing my character instead of optimizing and they sorta freaked out on me, "Why are you doing that!" I was role playing! Maybe I should try to find a regular group of role players to game with. But I think the frequency would have to be only on weekends, and perhaps only once per month. I dunno. Maybe if in the future I lived with a real board gamer instead of a video gamer LOL. There are video role-playing games but they lack the spontaneity of a tabletop game, options are constrained by the game, even in the open world games you're still punching buttons to make choices instead of playing free form with language and creativity. Wtith a tabletop you can just let the creativity fly on all sides and the facilitator can let the rules slide when appropriate for the narrative.
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I'm probably not running in the morning, it will be all I can do to get to the car service appointment at 8am after I play with toys tonight. But then I'll have the rest of Friday to myself. I think the way I've scheduled this week has worked well. Things like dentist, massage, car appointment, to get me out of the house and interacting with people. A game session on Saturday so the entire weekend isn't just me by myself. Maybe I'm getting better at this. But next week I have nothing on the calendar yet except for my monkeypox shot. I'll want to do something social on a couple of the evenings, and something social on the weekend. However, I do not control other people's schedules, and a lot of people are still out of town or otherwise busy, so I'll just have to see what happens.
So far, socially, I feel like more of a maker than a taker. Perhaps I'll get more flexible as time goes by.
Also ... this monkeypox stuff is definitely putting a crimp in my desire to meet new people. But after I receive the first shot at least I'll have a head start on the real virus. The vaccines for monkeypox are often used after a person has been exposed, and they have some efficacy as post-exposure treatments, so, maybe I'll feel like I can risk meeting one person at a time after a discussion about what they've been up to. I dunno, let's get past that first shot, Bug.
OK, toys, music, and porn for a while. Maybe hot tub for a while after dark. In bed by midnight, with an alarm for 6am.