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New dining room furniture arrived yesterday. We can now seat (and serve!) six in relative comfort or eight-plus in knee-knocking cramped inefficiency. Cats have sniffed it and pronounced themselves indifferent. Wife has sniffed it and pronounced herself satisfied.
Couch to 5k continues apace (so to speak). Yesterday was two unbroken miles for the first time since November 1992. I am surprisingly not-hurty, which is a good sign in and of itself.
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tracker7's Star Wars: Edge of the Empire pick-up game yesterday, in which he ran this year's Free RPG Day scenario. Well-written and well-executed - we got an in media res beginning in a chase scene, some investigation and social stuff, a clue chain that didn't feel contrived, and a couple of final fight scenes that went quickly and smoothly. The only point of friction was a particular player's one-note sense of alleged humor and characterization, but I can filter. To a point. Regardless, though, I'm growing more and more enamored of Fantasy Flight's rules system. The weird symbol-based dice are pretty quick once you figure out what they mean, though the automatic results aggregation of the five-dollar iPhone dice roller app helps immensely. I still don't intend to buy the rather expensive book unless I get into someone's extended campaign, but I'm impressed.
Today, we're under a wind advisory until midnight, as there's a possibility of weather equal to or heavier than what we got on Halloween. I'm taking the precaution of hunkering down in my basement office and working on some of my freelance assignment for the Trinity Continuum reboot. Later, there will no doubt be more XCOM: Enemy Within, about which I really should write separately. The problem is that time spent writing about it means time spent not playing it...
Couch to 5k continues apace (so to speak). Yesterday was two unbroken miles for the first time since November 1992. I am surprisingly not-hurty, which is a good sign in and of itself.
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tracker7's Star Wars: Edge of the Empire pick-up game yesterday, in which he ran this year's Free RPG Day scenario. Well-written and well-executed - we got an in media res beginning in a chase scene, some investigation and social stuff, a clue chain that didn't feel contrived, and a couple of final fight scenes that went quickly and smoothly. The only point of friction was a particular player's one-note sense of alleged humor and characterization, but I can filter. To a point. Regardless, though, I'm growing more and more enamored of Fantasy Flight's rules system. The weird symbol-based dice are pretty quick once you figure out what they mean, though the automatic results aggregation of the five-dollar iPhone dice roller app helps immensely. I still don't intend to buy the rather expensive book unless I get into someone's extended campaign, but I'm impressed.Today, we're under a wind advisory until midnight, as there's a possibility of weather equal to or heavier than what we got on Halloween. I'm taking the precaution of hunkering down in my basement office and working on some of my freelance assignment for the Trinity Continuum reboot. Later, there will no doubt be more XCOM: Enemy Within, about which I really should write separately. The problem is that time spent writing about it means time spent not playing it...
