Salutations, my curious congregation! We're getting back on the explanation wagon with the next Astrallis species, and I'm going to try to keep this one as brief as possible considering this one has no cognate in normal D&D.
CWs: Probably swearing, I'm on a new parent sleep schedule so the irreverence is probably a little watered down right now. But bear with me.
Salutations, my curious congregation! A brief update to let you know that the day before I was supposed to write this blog entry, the doctor decided my blood pressure was too high and I was admitted and my labor induced. So right now I am sitting in a hospital room recovering from delivery, with a perfectly healthy and just...perfect little boy.
So there won't be any blog entry today and I'll try to get back on schedule with the next one <3
Salutations, my curious congregation! Today we're going to be talking about the halflings of my setting, who mechanically aren't super different from normal halflings, but culturally are quite different.
CWs: I swear and engage in regular displays of irreverence.
Salutations, my curious congregation! Last time I rambled a little bit about the broad strokes of Astrallis as a setting, so now I'm going to get into the various playable species (and maybe the unplayable ones when I'm done with that, we'll see how I'm feeling about it when we reach that point).
CWs: I'm using 'species' instead of 'races' and I say fuck a lot. Also, we're going to be talking about the sheer concept of evolution. If any of that bothers you, there's the door.
Salutations, my curious congregation! I'm about to babble to you about the science fantasy campaign setting I've been working on for the past couple of years. My home group playtested it in its first campaign iteration just before Covid hit, took the campaign from 1-20 and I'm currently running another game for online friends on Discord. We've been doing a lot of playtesting of subclasses I've written for it, and if you're interested in space settings that incorporate magic, this might be up your alley.
Today I'm just going to be talking about what it is and where it comes from though. No particular details just yet, though expect more about it going forward since I've hit the point where I'm ready to talk about it in public.
CWs: Swearing, irreverence, and me badmouthing Warhammer. (Kind of; it's not bad for what it's intended to be, it just wasn't what I wanted and I'm going to talk a little bit about that so if that's going to offend you terribly I'll see you in the next one.)
Salutations, my curious congregation. Sorry I've been doing so much soft personal stuff recently but I don't want to get out of the habit of writing blog entries, need to stay ahead of the curb, and I have a lot of personal nonsense going on, so I'm about to go on a ramble. Buckle up or move on ahead to the next one if there's a next one up.
CWs: Baby stuff. A good litmus test for whether or not you want to continue is whether or not the word 'cervix' makes you make a face. If you made a face, probably skip this one. If you laughed, how the fuck old are you? Also swearing. But if you're down to read five or six paragraphs of Robin Oversharing Life Details, click on.
Salutations, my curious congregation. I'm just going to babble a little bit about the Arcane series based on League of Legends. Bear in mind that at the time I'm writing this the last three episodes haven't come out yet and by the time it actually comes out it'll be a couple weeks into December.
Okay, listen, I'm going to have a new baby in December, I want to take the month off, but I can't hiatus my blog after I just ended my blog hiatus. So you're going to have to deal with things not being timely for a couple of months, that's the compromise.
CWs: Spoilers for Arcane, probably swearing. Me splooging about something I highly enjoyed for however long this blog entry takes.
Salutations, my curious congregation. I'm going to take a moment to update you all on our Sunday campaign where we've been playing Rime of the Frostmaiden, so straightforward we go.
CWs: Spoilers ahead for Rime of the Frostmaiden and just so you know my paladin is a horn dog so if the idea of an arrogant moon elf hitting on a giant woman disturbs you definitely don't click below.
Salutations, my curious congregation. There's a big talking point about Queer Representation and what goes far enough. A lot of people talk about how if queer people are present in stories it's usually as background characters and rarely as protagonists, but I just want to take a moment to appreciate the progress we've made.
TWs: Swearing, irreverence, and this entry's probably gonna be fucking gay. If any of that bothers you, why are you here? Are you okay, buddy?
Salutations, my curious congregation. Today we're going to be talking about magic, technology, and why most settings feel the need to pry them as far apart as possible as if letting them touch is going to cause a rift in the space time continuum.
TWs: If the title didn't tip you off I'm one of those radicals that likes to let magic and technology play nice together so if that bothers you, skip this one. Also I say fuck a lot.
Salutations, my curious congregation. I've got magic on the brain so now we're going to talk a little bit about Arena and the ups and downs I've been having with it because at the time I'm writing this, Crimson Vow is about to drop and I'm very excited about it.
TWs: General gaming wankery, swearing, the sheer corrosive force of my personality.
Salutations, my curious congregation. There's a good chance this blog entry goes up a long while after the Dissecting the Dragon Creature Type article does on Nerdarchy, but in real life I just finished it and something I found while I was researching for it inspired me. So today we're going to do a little bit of world-building.
The concept is simple; a cabal of wizards lives in the woods near to a grove belonging to a group of Faerie Dragons, and the Faerie Dragons, as part of a pact with the wizards, symbiotically become their familiars.
Expect this to be a shorter one, I'm not actually sure how far I can carry this idea, but I felt like doing some brainstorming so let's find out.
TWs: They're cute faerie dragons, man, idk what to tell you. It shouldn't be a rough one unless you're personally offended by rainbows and/or swearing. And let's be honest, if you are you left a long time ago.
Salutations, my curious congregation. My home group got together for another session, finally, so that's what the blog is going to be about, today. Reminder that we are playing Rime of the Frostmaiden, so if you haven't gotten to read or play it yet there are likely to be spoilers ahead. Don't click if you don't want that.
TWs: Irreverence, shenanigans, dicery. Swearing.
Salutations, my curious congregation. I'm going to take a moment to talk about some personal stuff if you'll permit me an editorial entry. As I'm sure many of you have put together, Josh and I have a baby due in December, and I just want to talk about that a little bit since I've got him on the brain and don't have anything else pressing to talk about.
TWs: I'm going to talk about some pregnancy things, so if that bothers you or triggers dysphoria you're probably better off skipping this one. Other than that, those of you who are personally offended by the idea of the fact that Josh and I would have still used the name Rowan if he'd been a girl and that is exactly why we picked it, probably shouldn't read farther, this entry or any of the rest of the blog.
Salutations, my curious congregation. I am currently writing this on the 4th (well, kind of, it's 3 in the morning so it hasn't been the 4th for very long) but it won't be coming out until the 11th, which means at that point we'll be nearing the halfway point of National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo. And because I'm up to my elbows in that this month and have it on the brain, I'm going to give you an update about it instead of blogging about something else.
TWs: Irreverence, the existential terror of actually finishing a book, and some of the dirty tricks I'm using to pad out my word count for this first draft because I am, in fact, a boosted animal.
Salutations, my curious congregation. Today, we're going to be taking a lesson from the tortoise and winning the race at a slow and steady pace. This is probably going to be a short one, but it's something I've been thinking about lately and it's going to be today's blog entry.
TWs: Aside from my usual dose of irreverence, not much. Unless you're the kind of person that is absolutely affronted by the idea of not completely busting your ass every day of your life. ...or offended by the word ass. In which case, I'm not sorry, but honestly you should probably find another blog to hang out in.
Salutations, my curious congregation, today we're going to be talking about people having affairs--don't worry my spouse and I are not those people! I'm coming at this from the perspective of fiction and what does and doesn't qualify as cheating. It kind of astonished me to realize that the line is in some pretty vastly different places for different people.
TWs: Unfaithfulness and some irreverence about that. I might also be talking about *gasp* sex. And concepts like what goes into polyamory. Yes, I know, your delicate sensibilities. Please take them back to your good Christian blog and refrain from bursting into flames in mine <3
Salutations, my curious congregation. I've finally gotten my spouse to watch Star Trek with me, and it turns out all it took was starting him on The Next Generation rather than the Original Series. Anyway, we're on Season 4 and today (writing this very early in the morning on October 26th but this entry won't go up until much later) saw Episode 14, "Clues". So we're going to talk about that.
TWs: This one is going to heavily discuss player agency so if you're seeing those words and starting to break into hives because how dare we consent to things, go crawl back in your hole. We don't want you here. How did you even find this place? Also spoilers for an episode of a TV show that aired February 11th in 1991.
Salutations, my curious congregation. Today we're going to be talking about a phone app, because for those who don't know I was sick for like three weeks with sinusitis so bad I couldn't sit up at my keyboard, but I can bring the phone to me and in my search for something to do, this is what came up.
Duskwood is a kind of mystery game with a hacking mini-game that is basically just bejeweled. A woman from this town, Duskwood, was kidnapped, and you have to figure out from your phone what happened to her. Like, the entire thing is framed through texting and sending files and stuff, which I've seen happen before but never played personally. And I'm going to ramble about that. So buckle up.
TWs: Mention of kidnapping, depression, possibly murder, and the sheer audacity of me playing a video game on my phone.
Salutations, my curious congregation. Getting back into the swing of things, I want to take a minute to talk about what's going on in my home game. I'm not the dungeon master right now, Josh is, and we've been spotty about meeting up recently but we're still playing. And this, at least partially, the same group we played Horde of the Dragon Queen with.
TWs: Shenanigans and irreverence. Frostbite. A "horror" campaign. Spoilers for Rime of the Frostmaiden Ahead.
You know, there are some concepts you see done over and over again? There's probably a good reason for that. Sometimes you just need a simple concept for a session to run for your party. Well, let's reach into our back pockets for some stock sessions on the off chance of that happening.
And just for the record, something being a common thing doesn't make it bad. These things get used over and over again for a good reason.
TWs: The sheer suggestion that your gaming session can be a bit derivative and still be good. Oh, churl.
You've been gone for two years. It'd be nice to have you back for the holidays, but to be honest what I really want is just another mundane conversation with you.
TWs: Gonna be talking about grief. We'll see about my usual healthy dose of irreverence.
Alright, listen, sometimes you just have to write it out. Like, sometimes I'm on here talking about fiction and tabletop stuff, and sometimes I'm on here rhapsodizing about life. This is gonna be one of the latter of those times. And maybe the end of the hiatus, but no promises. Just gotta get some stuff off my chest. Scream into the void as it were.
Trigger Warnings: -stage whisper- I'm going to be talking about pregnancy and nonbinary trans stuff so if any of that grosses you out go find something else to read please.
