Fall Break is over.
I feel a little cold creeping into my throat. I hate it.
Paul Beakley kicked off a conversation a while ago about ttrpg products becoming bigger and more involved in The New Novelty and a bunch of other writers responded. And it made me think about my own consumption of ttrpg books and the sway kickstarters have over me. So much of myself is caught up in “pretty books” and those ttrpg books shure as hell are really pretty. I don't even know if they are something that I actually do anything with or want for me or do I want them because I have met people who are very into the hobby and this is a way for me to connect to them? To get my foot in an imaginary door?
And then again I do have fun writing adventures for my once in a while DnD group. I love looking through these neat books, ingesting parts of them. I have a hard time “reading” rules and actually committing them to memory. It is much more likely that I will play the game and learn the rules through that and then when I run a game I just somewhat wing it. Because I don't have a dep understanding of the rules. It still works, because I am good at winging it and the people I play with don't know the rules either.
Then I see this Codex Of Old School Axioms and on the one hand I feel like an imposter and on the other hand I think “what a douche, telling me how to play anything”.
Blargh. I did back the DURF kickstarter on a whim, the art is so cool. It made me realize that fun art is okay as well and that is the art that most often comes out of me.
something real
Mike Monteiro is one of the good ones. And there are so many good lines in this. I should watch it again.
Music Corner
A new record by Dirty Knobs aka Zac Bentz who I know of because he once did Field Recordings from the Edge of Hell and also used to review japanese rock music and I found a lot of cool tunes through that old blog, that I can't find anymore. I wrote a lot of my university papers to the field recordings.
Kochkraft durch KMA have a new EP and it is excellent. Great party tunes and fun lyrics.
Frances Quinlan of Hop Along fame has a new band with excellent colleagues. Great tunes.
the rest
I made a thing. It is a little zungeon for an old school ttrpg of your choice or even for 5e. I am proud I made it. It has many faults. But heck, I made it dang it.