A few weeks back on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, I did my first triathlon in over two years, my first since I broke both of my wrists in September 2019, my first since the pandemic descended, my first since the birth of my son, Graham, who turned a year old in October. Appropriately, and mostly by design, my first race back was a return to my first ever triathlon, the Turkey Tri in San Dimas.
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I spent last weekend at Gen Con, by far my most concentrated days of gaming all year. Even though I forgot my Gen Con hat and neglected to pack any socks at all, it was still another successful convention adventure.Read More »
I decided to break up my thoughts about Gen Con into multiple posts, because I have too many to share in just one. Here are a few final odds and ends from my weekend at Gen Con.Read More »
Because I have lots to say about the somewhat overwhelming experience that is Gen Con, I have decided to break it up into multiple posts. This post is about Shadow of the Demon Lord.Read More »
Because I have so much to say about my experience at Gen Con this year, I’ve decided to break it up into multiple posts. This post is about Dungeon World.Read More »
I have enough to say about Gen Con that I’ve decided to break it up into multiple posts. I already posted about Iron GM, only because I had a lot I needed to get down while it was swirling in my head. This first post is about the Pathfinder Second Edition Playtest, which debuted on Thursday.Read More »
I competed in the Iron GM World Championship on Saturday afternoon at Gen Con. It was my first time participating in the event in any capacity. I had heard of it only shortly before signups for events opened for Gen Con this year, but it was the thing I was looking forward to most about this year’s con.
I have many thoughts and feelings about it, and I decided the only way I could get them down coherently right now without rambling overmuch would be in bullet point form. There is only limited reasoning behind the ordering.Read More »
Last night was the second installment of Nerd Nite LA‘s Drinking & Dragons, a combination of D&D and improv show, with Yours Truly as the Dungeon Master and players selected at random from the audience. When Katie, one of my co-bosses of Nerd Nite LA, asked me how I was feeling before the show, my most honest answer was, as usual, incredibly nervous. Then, around ten o’clock last night after the show concluded, I felt… still nervous?Read More »
In Dungeons & Dragons, I find we too often neglect to create a distinctive culture for orcs, goblins, and other savage humanoids. It usually satisfies the players and DM to say merely that they are filthy, violent, and unsophisticated. This lack of culture and refinement stands in for any description of the ways in which their cultures express themselves.Read More »
Check one off the old bucket list. I ran my first marathon this Sunday, my own hometown LA Marathon, and my first marathon time was much faster than I ever would have wagered. I pushed harder and dug deeper than I have for anything else in my life, and it paid off.
Goal time: 4:10:00 to 4:30:00
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