Random TTRPG Thoughts #59
It’s way too early, the coffee is brewing, and my mind is having difficulty with its start up sequence. As my mental facilities come online, while begging for go juice, flashes of cognitive function occur at intervals with no discernible pattern. These are some random TTRPG thoughts.
- My Numenera table almost got wiped out by a Crag Worm last week. That was interesting.
- I’ve got some live streams in the works, the first will happen on February 5th at 8 PM. Keep an eye on the channel for more information!
- A special shout out to all the folks who have Sponsored Ecclesicon 2025. Gold Sponsors: Seventh Sphere LLC (OpenLegend RPG), Evil Genius Games, Philadelphia Area Gaming Expo, Grimwood Games, Zoo Mafia. Friends of the Convention: Runehammer. Thanks for your support!
- I get to return to my Dragonbane game this week. Last time the party had some very bad luck against a few bandits. A character died, but the player was playing to his flaw so…do I say, “Well done?”
- My Hobby Lunch game skipped January due to scheduling issues, but we’re back in February and we’ll have a third player for some more Cypher System goodness.
- Don’t wait (because it fills me with anxiety)! Get your badges for Ecclesicon today! There’s some amazing games being run and we’re gonna have a blast!
- So the controversy of the week seems to be “Would you play a game with a Trump supporter?” This is the wrong question. The actual question is, “Can you play a game with someone who doesn’t want you to exist?” I’ll play games with people of all stripes, but I draw a line when it comes to people who are ok with doing active harm to other players at the table. That’s not everyone who voted for Trump, nor it is limited to the right wing of American politics, but at the moment our far right wing is the most visible form of this willingness to harm our neighbors. It needs to be called out—by everyone, from all walks of life and across the political divide, because we’re not going to have a society if we keep going this way.
- My sermon this past week was entitled “Rules Lawyers.” And it was, indeed, about a rules lawyer Jesus met. My inner geek was happy. I’m also sure I broke the rules.
- I forgot to take my “Tears of my players” mug to our brewery session last week! It would have been perfect during that Crag Worm fight. And, no, I’m not an adversarial GM—I don’t even roll any dice in Numenera. I’d have just found it amusing to be sipping a beer from that mug while the players all rolled awful. It’s not my fault their dice hate them!
- I’ve finished writing my review of The Electric State RPG! Now I just need time to record it, and run it, and run it again, and again. I will say, making characters is easy and there’s a terrific implementation of the character sheet for FoundryVTT.
