This is Random TTRPG Thoughts #78
School is out, I’m three weeks from the start of my sabbatical, and we’re apparently living in a reality TV show which shows how fast insecure people can set the world on fire. But I’ve got coffee, games to play, family I love, and friends I value. Somehow these things help my brain cut through the chaos and anxiety and set off random spikes of coherence. These are random TTRPG thoughts. Let’s roll it!
- The Scheduler ambushed me and I wasn’t prepared. I signed up for three games during the Community Run Infinite Tabletop and can’t play in any of them. While it’s too late for me, don’t let the Scheduler win. Sign up for some games at CRIT.
- My friend Dave, the author of the excellent Plaguebound and Ironbound systems, has spots in a Plaguebound session that I had to drop out of. Plaguebound is a dark fantasy setting with really cool character types. If you have time Thursday, June 26, sign up to play Echoes of the Fallen Star. The fun begins at 8 PM Eastern and you will have a blast.
- I’m looking forward to my daughter taking me to a local game store on Friday as a belated Father’s Day present. I wonder what the shopping spree caps out at?
- I’d like to run Dragonbane in person some time. I’m going to have to get on that!
- During CRIT Dave’s also running an Index Card RPG adventure I wrote called “The Orshin Incident.” He’s got spots in his June 24th session that runs from 10 AM to 1 PM.
- During Sabbatical I’m going to try taking one of the adventures for Tales of Argosa and set it up in Foundry VTT. Why? So I can run it, of course!
- I do need another set of dice for Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme. Maybe I’ll see if the store has some.
- I’m running Sentinel Comics RPG for my little and some folks from the neighborhood this Summer. Yes, I am. I will defy The Scheduler!
- Maybe the store will have a copy of Daggerheart that’s hiding in a corner. That could be fun to pick up.
- This week two of my players shared photos of their growing TTRPG shelves, neither one includes any books from 5e and that makes me glad. It’s not because “5e is terrible.” It’s because their start in the hobby opened them up to play many different systems. And I think that’s awesome.
