I learned recently that John Romero (the video game designer) supposedly has hyperthymesia, which makes his “Hi Sandy, I hope you’re well. This is incorrect…” replies all the more funny and brutal. I love the guy just for that.
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
Reading Classic RuneQuest: The Introduction Chapter
I’m coming back to my “Reading Classic RuneQuest” series after a hiatus caused by, you know, having to deal with my twelve other hobby projects 😄 Last time I read through the “Basic Role-Playing” booklet and now I’m finally getting into the actual RuneQuest book proper! Yay! But don’t get too excited, we’ll only do the Introduction chapter! Booo!
Found some rhubarb jam in Squamish this week-end… One of my life rules is “if there’s rhubarb in it, I’ll buy some”!
Went to the Sea-to-Sky Gondola yesterday for the first time, it looks pretty good from up there.
I love walking the dog this time of year because he leads me to all the places where I can get a face full of spiderwebs
One of my movie obsessions is anything to do with time travel, time loops, and other time shenanigans, but I’m running out of stuff to watch, so hit me up with your best, preferably obscure or underrated time-fuck movies and TV series!
The August chocolate subscription delivery has arrived, yay! Also, I found the delivery from last May mostly uneaten because I had somehow hidden it in the back of the closet? I guess that’s more chocolate for me, double yay!
Based on the first few comments on my recent piece on Glorantha’s “lore baseline”, I added some clarifications to the article! I hope it helps…
Runic Rants: Glorantha’s “Lore Baseline”
I recently wrote an article about how the “RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha” product line is getting bogged down with too much lore and not enough playable content. A comment I saw a few times in response to it is that Chaosium “has to” release more lore supplements to establish a “baseline” for Glorantha. Let’s address this… with random tables!
My Dragonbane players finally beat Dead Eyes Cave! One of them was one roll away from death, but the other two made judicious use of their heroic abilities and spells. Getting to the monster’s last 2 HP was quite dramatic!
Quote of the game: “did you blindfold the chicken?”
