Exhaustion
Mind the gap, friends.
Updates: I finished the DVD lecture series on Chinese history and the Three Kingdoms at the same time, more or less, back in September. I find it ironically amusing that the most successful of the Three Kingdoms in terms of survival was the one started by the bad guys...even though the Cao family got replaced by the Sima clan in a rather brutal fashion.
Saturday Night Game is finally about to restart, even though I lost all my files for it in a recent hard drive crash. Worse, it was a striped RAID build, so even if the friend who was helping me with it and I hadn't mutually decided to do something inauspicious, I might not have recovered what I wanted to recover! Eh bien. So now I have to go re-read all my old fanfics, figure out what I was thinking about doing next when I wrote 'em, and rebuild from there.
Fortunately for me, we'll be using S7S, which is one of the easier games to plot and plan, and I have four very creative friends coming along for the ride. There will be swashbuckling, excitement, romance, explosions, and corny dialogue!
Gaming...the Cub's eventual gaming list is now up to four. There's The Princes' Kingdom, by Clint R. Nixon, which I've mentioned before, and Mouse Guard. I also heartily recommend Atomic Sock Monkey's Zorcerer of Zo, which is the PDQ version of Wizard of Oz. But thanks to a certain charity drive by Drivethru RPG, I have now gotten a copy of the Wizard of Oz RPG. So if you're looking to introduce a new generation to the hobby, I'd suggest these four in particular: they're easy, they don't have to involve a lot of violence, and they stress both creative problem solving and cooperative play. (On violence--Mouse Guard is the grittiest of the four, and Wizard of Oz is probably the least. WoOz follows the books, not the movie.)
The Cub has been hyped about Halloween since, uhm, mid-August. And she spent the entire week beforehand running about the house saying 'Trick or Treat!' at random intervals. Which means, of course, that when we joined Unca Jeff and Ayi Carrie and Cousin Sydney (or is it Sidney? I can never remember!) to go around their street, she got total stage fright and clammed up at the first house we visited. And the second house, she froze up there, too. By the third, she recovered...and until an arbitrary point a few houses later when everything suddenly became too scary, she did fine.
She has since asked excitedly, over and over, if she gets to go trick or treating next year. But Mama gets escort duty, 'cause Carrie thinks I ought to stay behind and man their door. Apparently my Lurch imitation amused her.
Updates: I finished the DVD lecture series on Chinese history and the Three Kingdoms at the same time, more or less, back in September. I find it ironically amusing that the most successful of the Three Kingdoms in terms of survival was the one started by the bad guys...even though the Cao family got replaced by the Sima clan in a rather brutal fashion.
Saturday Night Game is finally about to restart, even though I lost all my files for it in a recent hard drive crash. Worse, it was a striped RAID build, so even if the friend who was helping me with it and I hadn't mutually decided to do something inauspicious, I might not have recovered what I wanted to recover! Eh bien. So now I have to go re-read all my old fanfics, figure out what I was thinking about doing next when I wrote 'em, and rebuild from there.
Fortunately for me, we'll be using S7S, which is one of the easier games to plot and plan, and I have four very creative friends coming along for the ride. There will be swashbuckling, excitement, romance, explosions, and corny dialogue!
Gaming...the Cub's eventual gaming list is now up to four. There's The Princes' Kingdom, by Clint R. Nixon, which I've mentioned before, and Mouse Guard. I also heartily recommend Atomic Sock Monkey's Zorcerer of Zo, which is the PDQ version of Wizard of Oz. But thanks to a certain charity drive by Drivethru RPG, I have now gotten a copy of the Wizard of Oz RPG. So if you're looking to introduce a new generation to the hobby, I'd suggest these four in particular: they're easy, they don't have to involve a lot of violence, and they stress both creative problem solving and cooperative play. (On violence--Mouse Guard is the grittiest of the four, and Wizard of Oz is probably the least. WoOz follows the books, not the movie.)
The Cub has been hyped about Halloween since, uhm, mid-August. And she spent the entire week beforehand running about the house saying 'Trick or Treat!' at random intervals. Which means, of course, that when we joined Unca Jeff and Ayi Carrie and Cousin Sydney (or is it Sidney? I can never remember!) to go around their street, she got total stage fright and clammed up at the first house we visited. And the second house, she froze up there, too. By the third, she recovered...and until an arbitrary point a few houses later when everything suddenly became too scary, she did fine.
She has since asked excitedly, over and over, if she gets to go trick or treating next year. But Mama gets escort duty, 'cause Carrie thinks I ought to stay behind and man their door. Apparently my Lurch imitation amused her.