Update
Well things are going pretty good. The new job is working out well, and I am pretty positive that I am going to enjoy the work.
Went to my first ever work related trip, in Tybee, Island. It was full of good information, and the beach only makes me wish I had the time and money to go home (read Orlando) for a week or more soon.
In a new Exalted game, and I am really enjoying it. Despite my misgivings about the game when it first came out, it is quickly becoming my favorite fantasy game. For those of you who know the game, I am playing a Dawn Caste Solar, concept Mercenary Prince. We also have a Eclipse Pirate, Twilight Scavenger Lord, and Night Caste Child Thief.
For those of you who have known me for a good while, you will know that I am a Cammie, and have always and still enjoy the Club. Even when things were at their worst, I have always tried to be a positive voice were the game, and everything else involved is concerned. So this is not a rant, but more of a reflection on where I am at right now.
I am finding it hard to let go, I honestly miss the old vampire setting. I miss the clans that have gone away, and I miss many of the political aspects of the game. Covenants aren't really doing it for me, and I find it hard to look past the system. I miss the old system, and while the new one is fine, I was weened on paper, rock, scissors, and its hard to kick the habit.
Changeling is fucked, plane and simple. To many people, myself included dropped the ball, and a wonderful, fun game has become nothing but a pale shadow of a dream once treasured. This being said, I am looking forward to the new chronicle to start, so that maybe things will return to what they should have been all along.
What I can say, that while I am having a hard time adjusting, the new games have many good things for me. I like the overall setting, the new world of darkness seems a bit darker than the old (perhaps its all the uncharted territory.), and I have found that I like the changes made in some of the clans in vampire, even thought I miss some of the old ones.
Mage is good, I liked old mage, but New Mage has a lot of fun and fresh stuff in it, so I am almost 100% behind it.
Werewolf however is sadly a loss. While I was never a big WWtA fan, the few things I liked about it, have been completely removed, and the aspects that I hated, have been reinforced.
All in all, I am adjusting, and hopefully, soon I will be back on track.
A Prayer.... (While Christian, the words are true no matter the Higher Power.)
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.
St. Francis of Assisi - 13th century
Went to my first ever work related trip, in Tybee, Island. It was full of good information, and the beach only makes me wish I had the time and money to go home (read Orlando) for a week or more soon.
In a new Exalted game, and I am really enjoying it. Despite my misgivings about the game when it first came out, it is quickly becoming my favorite fantasy game. For those of you who know the game, I am playing a Dawn Caste Solar, concept Mercenary Prince. We also have a Eclipse Pirate, Twilight Scavenger Lord, and Night Caste Child Thief.
For those of you who have known me for a good while, you will know that I am a Cammie, and have always and still enjoy the Club. Even when things were at their worst, I have always tried to be a positive voice were the game, and everything else involved is concerned. So this is not a rant, but more of a reflection on where I am at right now.
I am finding it hard to let go, I honestly miss the old vampire setting. I miss the clans that have gone away, and I miss many of the political aspects of the game. Covenants aren't really doing it for me, and I find it hard to look past the system. I miss the old system, and while the new one is fine, I was weened on paper, rock, scissors, and its hard to kick the habit.
Changeling is fucked, plane and simple. To many people, myself included dropped the ball, and a wonderful, fun game has become nothing but a pale shadow of a dream once treasured. This being said, I am looking forward to the new chronicle to start, so that maybe things will return to what they should have been all along.
What I can say, that while I am having a hard time adjusting, the new games have many good things for me. I like the overall setting, the new world of darkness seems a bit darker than the old (perhaps its all the uncharted territory.), and I have found that I like the changes made in some of the clans in vampire, even thought I miss some of the old ones.
Mage is good, I liked old mage, but New Mage has a lot of fun and fresh stuff in it, so I am almost 100% behind it.
Werewolf however is sadly a loss. While I was never a big WWtA fan, the few things I liked about it, have been completely removed, and the aspects that I hated, have been reinforced.
All in all, I am adjusting, and hopefully, soon I will be back on track.
A Prayer.... (While Christian, the words are true no matter the Higher Power.)
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.
St. Francis of Assisi - 13th century