Leaves are falling and the weather is cool, but not cold. It definitely feels like autumn.

I look forward to the end of the election season, though there's no telling how that'll all shake out in the end. For a time, I considered third-party presidential candidates, but I reached a conclusion much akin to John Oliver's assessment.

WoW goes on. I ( Read more... )

Arguably, I made a very critical error when designing my character in our Sunday-evening airship-based D&D game. I had a fighter type in mind, but I was faced with either leaning on Strength or Dexterity. Both seemed pretty equally viable. Strength might have an edge in melee, Dex in ranged. I opted to make a half-orc Strength fighter - pretty ( Read more... )

Weekend - too short.

D&D - I'm stunned at how much shady, suspicious stuff can happen without revealing any actually-damning evidence of wrong-doing. I don't believe for a moment that Shirhan (sp?) is actually innocent, but even getting into the fight he coooould just be defending himself ( Read more... )

So with renewed interest from our once-frequent GM who moved away, we've started up a game on Roll20. He had airships (a bit more magicpunk or aetherpunk than steampunk) in mind, and after some discussion, we settled on using the D&D 5E rules. Last night we really had our first interaction between characters as they, as a group, inherit a ship ( Read more... )

Steins;Gate is an anime series I had heard of. After finally getting around to watching it, it proved not what I expected. I knew it was some sort of time travel tale, but expected more action. Some of what I had read implied some sort of struggle between factions of time travelers. Instead, while there are, at times, more than one faction in ( Read more... )

Take a "standard" fantasy world with an "evil overlord" in charge and a prophecy of his downfall. Throw a band of heroes at him in a gloriously destructive battle in which they defeat him with great sacrifice ( Read more... )

I do so hate it when I manage to blow my mood on a Saturday (or Friday night) and leave myself mopey through the rest of the weekend. Ah well. So it goes ( Read more... )

*sigh* I had my thoughts much more organized last night. As I was trying to get to sleep. Bleh. Inefficiencies of life! Nevermind that these aren't exactly chipper thoughts about an ongoing game, but... sometimes you have to take a critical eye to things ( Read more... )

Well, let's see ( Read more... )

I've talked before about my difficulties in dealing with multiverses conceptually. I always keep coming back to "well, how does any of this actually matter when there are worlds out there in which things are already the way I want?" Why struggle to beat Sauron, Thanos, or Lord Evildude when you can go to a world in which it's already done ( Read more... )