Greetings from the other side!
Ok. Time for my second attempt at this. I sat down to write my blog post and had gotten a fair bit into it when my laptop suddenly decided to erase everything I had written. Sadly I had not remembered to save it before hand. Not that that would really have mattered as the blog auto-saved just after everything was deleted so it was gone anyway. Oh well.
It has been almost a week now since my last blog post. It's been a busy week and I haven't really had the energy to sit down and write blog entries in that time. Today however is a day of rest of relaxation for me so I figured I would see if I could write something. Well, when I say "rest and relaxation" I neglect to mention that so far today I have already been to the chiropractor about my knee, been grocery shopping and ran some errands with my fiancee, and been called out on a short, job-related errand. Now though, I am back home and hopefully the rest of the day will be calm. Normally, doing things like that in a day is no big deal, but with my knee being a bit sore after the visit to the chiropractor, it's a slightly different story.
My knee has been getting better, but is still a bit stiff and swollen, so I went to the chiropractor to have a look at it. He treated it and for the next week or so I'll need to take it easy and be careful with it. I'll still be able to do my job, but I do need to take it a bit easy so I don't twist the knee or strain it excessively. Hopefully it will be completely well in about a week or two. Keeping my fingers crossed.
The first snow of winter has arrived here now. From talking to relatives and friends over on the Swedish side I know that they have been getting quite a lot of snow lately. I know that my dad has been shoveling snow quite a lot. We, however, have had some cold temperatures, but no snow. Until now. It's not huge amounts, but there's maybe a decimeter of snow. From what we've heard the weather should be getting a bit warmer again this week so we might see some rain and the snow will most likely melt away.
I am still keeping out hope that we will get a white Christmas this year though.
I have also been working a bit on the tabletop RPG world building project. The map-making has been at a bit of a stand-still, but I have been getting a bit of writing done, which I am pleased about. It is a good vent to have after a long day of work. Especially since I have a physical job it feels nice to exercise the brain instead from time to time. :)
I think that is enough for now.
See you all on the other side!
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fredag 11 november 2016
måndag 29 augusti 2016
Campaign reflections & A short story
Greetings from the other side.
Feeling a bit tired today, but hopefully I can get some creative stuff done this evening. Would like to continue writing on my world-building, as the idea of one day running a tabletop RPG campaign in it is growing on me quite a lot. Will of course need to find players for it, etc, but that'll be a problem for further down the line. :) And yes, I know I said in a previous post that the world was a separate project that I was making to see what I could create if I gave myself no deadlines and complete creative freedom, not tied down by a specific tabletop rpg system or any specific campaign ideas. I have found however, that as I am building this world, a lot of ideas for campaigns are starting to take form based on the information I write down about this world. So in a sense, it is not the campaign that gives birth to the world, but the world itself that gives birth to the campaign, if that makes sense. I still have a lot of work left to do though, before I feel comfortable with using the world for a campaign, but it is coming along nicely. The fact that I have now started making maps for it is also a huge boost to me. It is 'only' world maps of individual continents or lands at the moment, but they really help me put everything into perspective a bit more.
The creative process is really calming to me. It almost becomes meditative at times, as I loose myself in the process of writing and coming up with ideas. Sometimes, I don't even have a pre-planned idea of what I want to write, it just comes to me as I sit there in front of the screen with a blank document in front of me. It is kinda like when I write this blog. I don't always have an idea what I want to write about. I just start and the words just start flowing. A good example, tying back to the tabletop RPGs, I had a character (well, I still technically have the character, it is just that the campaign is on ice for a bit) who was an elven ranger in a 4e D&D game. I initially wrote up about a page or two of backstory for the character, which were mostly bullet points to be honest, but then one day I decided I was going to expand on it to give my DM (Dungeon Master) a bit more to work with. So I sat down with a blank document in Word, and had the two pages I had already written on the side, and started writing. After a fairly short while I had about 11 or 12 pages written, plus reference lists of people the character had met in their backstory, a list of locations, etc. It was about at this point that the DM begged me not to write any more stuff. So I stopped, even though I could have fleshed it out more and written a lot more information as well, and ended up with far more pages than I already had, but I decided to be kind to our DM. ;)
See you all on the other side!
Feeling a bit tired today, but hopefully I can get some creative stuff done this evening. Would like to continue writing on my world-building, as the idea of one day running a tabletop RPG campaign in it is growing on me quite a lot. Will of course need to find players for it, etc, but that'll be a problem for further down the line. :) And yes, I know I said in a previous post that the world was a separate project that I was making to see what I could create if I gave myself no deadlines and complete creative freedom, not tied down by a specific tabletop rpg system or any specific campaign ideas. I have found however, that as I am building this world, a lot of ideas for campaigns are starting to take form based on the information I write down about this world. So in a sense, it is not the campaign that gives birth to the world, but the world itself that gives birth to the campaign, if that makes sense. I still have a lot of work left to do though, before I feel comfortable with using the world for a campaign, but it is coming along nicely. The fact that I have now started making maps for it is also a huge boost to me. It is 'only' world maps of individual continents or lands at the moment, but they really help me put everything into perspective a bit more.
The creative process is really calming to me. It almost becomes meditative at times, as I loose myself in the process of writing and coming up with ideas. Sometimes, I don't even have a pre-planned idea of what I want to write, it just comes to me as I sit there in front of the screen with a blank document in front of me. It is kinda like when I write this blog. I don't always have an idea what I want to write about. I just start and the words just start flowing. A good example, tying back to the tabletop RPGs, I had a character (well, I still technically have the character, it is just that the campaign is on ice for a bit) who was an elven ranger in a 4e D&D game. I initially wrote up about a page or two of backstory for the character, which were mostly bullet points to be honest, but then one day I decided I was going to expand on it to give my DM (Dungeon Master) a bit more to work with. So I sat down with a blank document in Word, and had the two pages I had already written on the side, and started writing. After a fairly short while I had about 11 or 12 pages written, plus reference lists of people the character had met in their backstory, a list of locations, etc. It was about at this point that the DM begged me not to write any more stuff. So I stopped, even though I could have fleshed it out more and written a lot more information as well, and ended up with far more pages than I already had, but I decided to be kind to our DM. ;)
See you all on the other side!
fredag 5 augusti 2016
Tabletop games galore
Greetings from the other side.
This will be my second post for today and I thought I would take a moment to tell a bit about what tabletop rpgs I am currently playing as a player, and games that are currently on hiatus, as I am not running any games as a GM right now.
Currently I am playing in two D&D 4e campaigns, one of which has been running for... about 3 or 4 years ow, I think. I am also part of a Star Wars campaign that uses the Star Wars Saga Edition game, as well as an Iron Kingdoms RPG game. For those who don't know, Iron Kingdoms is a tabletop RPG from Privateer Press which is based on their miniatures wargame Warmachine.
I am also part of plenty of games that are either on hiatus or upcoming, some which use the D&D 4e system, and others using systems such as Shadowrun, Mutants & Masterminds, D&D 3.5, L5R (Legend of Five Rings), and Ironclaw. I might have forgotten some systems in there, but I can always amend that later if need be.
There are also the games I have prepared to GM at some point in the future when the schedules allow us to play them - primarily 1st edition Mutant Chronicles, and Jade Claw from Sanguine Productions, but there are plenty of other systems I would like to run a game in at some point, such as D&D 5e, GURPS, good old swedish Drakar & Demoner, Symbaroum, another swedish tabletop RPG called Viking, and try out the new 3rd edition Mutant Chronicles, to name a few. We will see what the future holds there.
I will probably return another time to talk more about the games I used to play when I was younger and first got introduced to tabletop roleplaying. That's for another post though. I might also at some point return to talk more about some other tabletop games and game systems as well.
See you all on the other side!
This will be my second post for today and I thought I would take a moment to tell a bit about what tabletop rpgs I am currently playing as a player, and games that are currently on hiatus, as I am not running any games as a GM right now.
Currently I am playing in two D&D 4e campaigns, one of which has been running for... about 3 or 4 years ow, I think. I am also part of a Star Wars campaign that uses the Star Wars Saga Edition game, as well as an Iron Kingdoms RPG game. For those who don't know, Iron Kingdoms is a tabletop RPG from Privateer Press which is based on their miniatures wargame Warmachine.
I am also part of plenty of games that are either on hiatus or upcoming, some which use the D&D 4e system, and others using systems such as Shadowrun, Mutants & Masterminds, D&D 3.5, L5R (Legend of Five Rings), and Ironclaw. I might have forgotten some systems in there, but I can always amend that later if need be.
There are also the games I have prepared to GM at some point in the future when the schedules allow us to play them - primarily 1st edition Mutant Chronicles, and Jade Claw from Sanguine Productions, but there are plenty of other systems I would like to run a game in at some point, such as D&D 5e, GURPS, good old swedish Drakar & Demoner, Symbaroum, another swedish tabletop RPG called Viking, and try out the new 3rd edition Mutant Chronicles, to name a few. We will see what the future holds there.
I will probably return another time to talk more about the games I used to play when I was younger and first got introduced to tabletop roleplaying. That's for another post though. I might also at some point return to talk more about some other tabletop games and game systems as well.
See you all on the other side!
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