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Nov. 24th, 2023 08:12 pmI am posting this from my new iPad, trying out the keyboard built into the cover and just sorta seeing how well it works as a baby laptop. The verdict? Well-ish, as far as the touch interface will allow. It did literally prompt me to ask if I wanted to enable dictation as I was typing this, which amuses me. (The answer is of course, “no,” both because I love to type, and also because there are other people around I want to not bother.
Anyhoo! Fun news on the Shade-Of-the-Candle front: I have signed up for the game, and what’s more, Inkblitz has as well, which is an even better outcome than I’d been hoping for. We rarely get to play together, and he’ll be bringing Swiftstorm, his own “character-I-love-dearly-but-rarely-get-to-play”. I fully expect the two of them to be chaos goblins together, and I can’t wait. <3
Work this week has been rough, which is one reason the journal has been quiet. As it is, I spent most of Thanksgiving afternoon asleep, because I was so wiped out by working that morning; I also went in early to work today so that I could get OFF work early in order to get into the car and drive to the in-laws for the weekend… and then back to work on Monday. Oof. -.- Fortunately, I have the rest of the week off in order to toss together what prep I can for MFF, then hop on the plane Wednesday? Thursday? I forget which.
I am so not ready for another convention. XD I haven’t produced anything new since AC, I haven’t put together that “new table layout” I keep wanting to put together after every con, I haven’t done any art for an art show despite it being on my to-do list every week. Holy cats I miss the days of producing comics with manic intensity. >.> It probably wasn’t good for me, to be honest, but at least when I ended my week underslept and running low on spoons, I knew why. ;P
I will say that at least I managed to complete some commissions this past month, as well as continuing my professional GM sessions and fairly regular streaming schedule. So it’s not like I haven’t done anything. And, the past week of quiet notwithstanding, I’m posting here again. Hello, everyone who’s reading! I love you! <3
Hopefully, I’ll be hitting the sack early-ish tonight. In a strange bed, yes, but I’ll have my own pillow and my CPAP machine, so as long as the bed isn’t a marshmallow that breaks my back, that should be all I need. To that end, good night world, and have an awesome tomorrow.
-The Gneech
Anyhoo! Fun news on the Shade-Of-the-Candle front: I have signed up for the game, and what’s more, Inkblitz has as well, which is an even better outcome than I’d been hoping for. We rarely get to play together, and he’ll be bringing Swiftstorm, his own “character-I-love-dearly-but-rarely-get-to-play”. I fully expect the two of them to be chaos goblins together, and I can’t wait. <3
Work this week has been rough, which is one reason the journal has been quiet. As it is, I spent most of Thanksgiving afternoon asleep, because I was so wiped out by working that morning; I also went in early to work today so that I could get OFF work early in order to get into the car and drive to the in-laws for the weekend… and then back to work on Monday. Oof. -.- Fortunately, I have the rest of the week off in order to toss together what prep I can for MFF, then hop on the plane Wednesday? Thursday? I forget which.
I am so not ready for another convention. XD I haven’t produced anything new since AC, I haven’t put together that “new table layout” I keep wanting to put together after every con, I haven’t done any art for an art show despite it being on my to-do list every week. Holy cats I miss the days of producing comics with manic intensity. >.> It probably wasn’t good for me, to be honest, but at least when I ended my week underslept and running low on spoons, I knew why. ;P
I will say that at least I managed to complete some commissions this past month, as well as continuing my professional GM sessions and fairly regular streaming schedule. So it’s not like I haven’t done anything. And, the past week of quiet notwithstanding, I’m posting here again. Hello, everyone who’s reading! I love you! <3
Hopefully, I’ll be hitting the sack early-ish tonight. In a strange bed, yes, but I’ll have my own pillow and my CPAP machine, so as long as the bed isn’t a marshmallow that breaks my back, that should be all I need. To that end, good night world, and have an awesome tomorrow.
-The Gneech
Pay to Play, Yay or Nay?
Nov. 17th, 2023 10:24 pm
So lately I have had some pain points around our regular Saturday night gaming group, and have been kinda passively looking around at some possible alternatives. I don't really want to go into what the pain points are here, suffice to say I love my friends but I have not been getting a lot of satisfaction out of the games lately. Also, I really, really, really want to play Shady. Like, she's the only character I truly want to play, playing other characters when I want to be playing her low-key makes me sad, and the chances of getting to play her again in the current setup are, well, slim.
Today I happened upon a game on Startplaying.Games (the site that manages my Sunday night professional games) that, with the exception of being 5E instead of PF2E, really sounds like it hits all the right notes: RP-centric, pirate-themed, lore-heavy, backstory and plot tied directly to the PCs, heavy on the swashbuckling romance. It appears to be scheduled to run on alternating Saturday nights, with the first session being while I'm away at MFF (so I couldn't make that one), but the GM says I could start with the second session without it being a problem.
So now the question is... do I do it? >.>
My two big hesitations are a) disrupting the Saturday night group, and b) the cost. On the latter front I'm a professional GM myself, and the price is completely reasonable for the amount of work that entails, I'm not balking at that, I'm balking on whether or not I have room for it in my budget. On the former front, I dunno, I kinda feel like some of the people in the group would find it a relief to have every other week off from gaming, but I don't want them to feel abandoned either.
I suppose there's some nervousness about trying a new group too; I've been stung by that once or twice, but I don't have to go back if it sucks, so I'm not that worried about it.
I dunno, I'm very conflicted about the whole thing. Gonna try sleeping on it.
-TG
Shady's Character Sheet
Jan. 9th, 2019 03:37 pm
The gray cloudy bleah is hitting me hard, so to cheer myself up I am obsessing on my little problem child. I don’t want to have to seek a side gaming group, but I might have to at this rate.
Roleplaying
Traits
“Between my flicking ears and thrashing tail, my thoughts and feelings are an open book. Weird how that can still lie.”
“If you want me to do something, then tell me I can’t do it.”
Ideal
“Dancing on the edge of the blade lets you know you’re alive.”
Bond
“Thrillseeker. Give me the most dangerous, harrowing adventure. If there’s a dragon around, I’ll poke it just to be chased.”
Flaw
“Reckless. I risk my life, and sometimes those around me, in pursuit of my thrill-seeking whims.”
