Lazy Friday afternoon

[dorchadas]

Laila is asleep, sashagee is napping, it's grey and misty outside, and I'm still here at work. The Shabbat candle-lighting time starts right when work ends. We already did our Shabbat cleaning yesterday. Not much to do now.

sashagee is feeling sick--she's been sick, off and on, for about a month at this point. Laila can tell and she's not happy about it. She has tons of energy, always moving and always climbing and always wanting to go fast, and it means she's constantly testing boundaries and trying to get away with things and sashagee just does not have the energy to deal with it a lot of the time. I can play with Laila after work, but that still means most of most days I can't do much. sashagee already contacted her doctor to try to get some more tests done, and hopefully they can adjust her medication or do something else to help her get her energy back.

After the small number of games I played last year, I decided that this year I would try to beat one game a month and so far I'm...very behind. I haven't even started a new game this month at all and I have less than a week left. Fortunately, the game I want to play is the NES Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, which takes maybe three hours to beat and which I ran through probably a dozen times or more during my childhood, so I just need to sit down and actually put in the time. We don't have any other plans this weekend so this should be the time to do it.

Lately I've been into the RPG Break!!, which I kickstarted last year (when the kickstarter happened at the end of a 10 year design process). The game looks gorgeous and while I'm usually not a big fan of OSR games because they're not fiddly and complicated enough for my tastes, Break!! has some things in it that are almost always emphasized but rarely actually given mechanical weight--for example there's a whole section about marching order and how it mechanically affects what you can do! Plus the world it takes place on is hollow, the outer surface has no sun and while it used to have a "sun machine," the machine broke and crashed down to earth and so the world is divided into the Blazing Garden, the Twilight Meridian, and the Whistful Dark. In the far past, the world was ruled by capricious beings called the Unshaped (shades of Exalted), until one of those Unshaped took inspiration from the prayers of mortals and became Regulus, the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFUEz-8phDc&t=311s>First Hero</a>, leading mortals to victory. There are cat people who are actually aliens and arrived on a crashed spaceship. It looks like a ton of fun and I can't wait until I get the actual physical book. We had a bunch of snow back when I posted about how cold it was, and since then the weather climbed up to 6°C and it's been raining almost nonstop for days. The streets are wet and glistening in the streetlights now. Alright, Shabbat in a few minutes. See you on the other side.

Comments

[symbioid]

"not a big fan of OSR games because they're not fiddly and complicated enough for my tastes"

Me: OK - ready to roll.
DM: Ok, pick up a D20 and roll it.
Me: That's it? Where's my pool where's all the other cool dice? one d20?

[dorchadas]

There's a lot of things to complain about with Exalted but it's still my favorite game and there's nothing like the first time you go "I attack" and pick up 30d10.