I've long enjoyed the rather.... colorful.... posts over at gamingwhileconservative [gamingwhileconservative.wordpress.com]. The man has a way with words, and an opinion on gaming that anyone who lives the phrases "git gud" and likes the brutal difficulty curve of your typical roguelike would recognize and take to heart. You can't avoid the meta - embrace it. Find ways to lampshade it on occasion as needed. Your character may be better than average, but he's not world famous yet - so why do you…
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I've posted about the various hobbyist games I play, or have played, but not everyone is up for all that. Maybe you want to play a round of chess with far-away friends or family. Or GO. Yeah, I know. Nowhere near as easy or passive-aggressive as it looks. Sure, you could kick up vassal, or convince your friends to pay for Tabletop simulator (worth it, imo), but what if you needed something lightweight, preferably could run in a browser. So, for Chess, I've discovered lichess [https://lichess.…
I'd mentioned before that I'm running an ACKs campaign. For those not familiar, ACKs - Adventurer, Conqueror, King system - by Alexander Macris was an answer to the question "what if we took Basic, Moldvay-style D&D/OSR, and gave it a slightly more coherent set of rules, incorporated economics that make sense without requiring a ton of math, and used that to expand the rules all the way to "domain play" - kingdoms, armies, and so forth. While we're at it, we're neither running in the default…
First, a correction. The other favorite Cars album I was thinking of the other day was actually Heartbeat City, which had the song "Hello Again" on it. So, the Didact posts on Technometal [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2019/09/technometal.html] a couple days back, featuring songs I hadn't heard by a band that I like, Dance with the Dead, but hadn't bothered to follow since discovering them in conjunction with retro-wave. I also had not realized they'd done a Scandroid remix. OK, my bad. Put…
I'd crow about how I told you so, but predicting SJW's will not leave a hobby or stone unturned if it may be liked by more white and male types than others, and that they will impose diversity on you and you'll like it, or else, and "get away with your hateful opinions you Trump bigot!" no matter how obscure it is is like predicting the night will follow the day. Craft beer, knitting, and yes, as I predicted, wargames [https://thelastredoubt.com/convergence-in-gaming/]. Even in the original ker…