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I like metal and prog rock/metal (I was just listening to Dream Theater for the first time in forever the other day).
But my top three music genres are
1. Hip hop
2. Punk
3. Grunge/Alternative.
In addition to metal I also listen to a lot of rock, classic rock, a bit of country, and rockabilly (pretty much only Reverend Horton Heat).
Basically if it's music I'll give it try.
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All I listen to is the Hamilton Mixtape. Ever since I was a little kid.
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I was a drama kid in high school, and I still have a real fondness for musical theater.
And I am a music fan in general: my MP3 collection runs the gamut. I have recordings of everything from baroque opera to death metal, ragtime to EDM, rockabilly to hip hop, classic country to alt rock, atonal orchestral to Afro-pop, and a whole lot in between.
But I'd say the music genres I love best are classic hard rock, modern indie/alt-rock, and classical-era orchestral music. (But I've been on a big synthwave kick recently.)
Things got weird when I set my old iPod to "shuffle."
I use Spotify and I am always building new playlists. It's replaced my making mixtape hobby and I had in the 80s. Whenever I'd buy a new album I'd wait until I acquired three or four more then record my favorite tracks from them onto a tape. I pretty much stopped doing this in the early 90s when music veered into a direction I didn't like, but I still have all of those mixtapes. I was a cassette snob and only used the best Maxell and TDK blank cassettes. Those tapes sound just as good today as they did over 30 years ago. I'm gradually rebuilding the collection by adding the songs from them on Spotify. Man, the memories of hot summer nights aimlessly cruising my small town on the weekends with the windows down and the sound system up. I sank a lot of money into that stereo system and it bloody roared.
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Spotify is pretty sweet, I've been trying to break it all week.
1. Power/Speed Metal
2. Symphonic/Orchestral Rock or Metal
3. Chiptune/8-Bit/Synth Video Game music
would be my top three, not in any specific order.
I guess for me, in no particular order, my top three would be
1. Power metal
2. Symphonic/operatic metal
3. Metal from the classic era 1970-1990.
Another thing I like about Spotify is that you can share playlists.
I regularly make playlists for games I'm running/playing in, or sometimes even to get into the head of a character. In case anyone is interested, here are a few of my RPG playlists...
Swords of the Serpentine/Swords Without Master - Instrumental music for sword & sorcery RPGs
The Ultraviolet Grasslands - Psychedelic rock, doom metal, and other retro weirdness
Spirit of '77 - Funk, punk, rock, and soul from one amazing year
Sixguns & Sorcery - Your soundtrack to the Weird West
Skull & Shackles - Music for adventures piratical
The Skinsaw Murders - Dark ambient and horror movie music
Valeria's Setlist - A set list for my old Pathfinder character Valeria Baladin, a cleric/bard of Desna
Another thing I like about Spotify is that you can share playlists.
I regularly make playlists for games I'm running/playing in, or sometimes even to get into the head of a character. In case anyone is interested, here are a few of my RPG playlists...
Swords of the Serpentine/Swords Without Master - Instrumental music for sword & sorcery RPGs
The Ultraviolet Grasslands - Psychedelic rock, doom metal, and other retro weirdness
Spirit of '77 - Funk, punk, rock, and soul from one amazing year
Sixguns & Sorcery - Your soundtrack to the Weird West
Skull & Shackles - Music for adventures piratical
The Skinsaw Murders - Dark ambient and horror movie music
Valeria's Setlist - A set list for my old Pathfinder character Valeria Baladin, a cleric/bard of Desna
Nice!!! I'll be checking this out later.
Welp, we're gonna try another quarantine game Saturday. Like last time, we'll be using Google Meet. Hopefully, we won't have the same mic issues we did last time and have to resort to using auto captioning, which, while annoying, was also hilarious.
What about the rest of us? What doins?
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No Sunday game at the moment, hopefully that changes. Tomorrow is fairly clear, going to try and organize minis, help clear out some junk while Cyz works through our Magic cards for sale. We’ve had them since we got married over a decade ago and haven’t played with them since the game shop at Fort Hood. If we decide to play it more, we’ll just grab some of the most recent stuff.
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Tyrant's Grasp should still be on for Saturday evening.
We have friends who are out of town for a few weeks, so we are staying at their house while our house is getting worked on. Their house is nicer than our house, so it kind of feels like a vacation (where my wife and I still have to work).
However, my mom and sister are renting a beach house for a week for them and for us (wife and kids), so we are going there. However, Tropical Storm Hanna is making its way to shore, which will cause lots of rain, so we will likely be stuck in a tiny house on stilts with two extra people for long periods of time for a week instead of our current "vacation" house.
I am conflicted.
As I would be.
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Finally resuming Savage Tide after almost a month without, thanks to new computer being here! Huzzah!!
Razzinfratzingoldangblitzenfritzen...
I had to cancel my game tonight. Two players couldn't make it and I didn't find out until today, one of the guys wasn't able to get his Google account to work so he couldn't sign in to Google Meet, and I never heard a single word from two others.
*more garbled cursing*
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ST happened, though the entire session was spent on a huge combat because the party had tripped a sonic trap glyph of warding at the last session and pulled in three rooms' worth of monsters as a result.
Only the boss room remaining in the dungeon though, so we should be out of there come next session! I need to pick the boss's spells between then and now, though.
Tyrant's Grasp didn't happen, but I don't know why. Got a cancellation from half the group about 20 minutes before we were supposed to start.
GRRRRR....that is so annoying.
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As usual, I didn't game over the weekend. I did get a little more work done on polishing my Trophy Gold incursion "Harpy's Maw" for self-publication on Itch.io.
Two games on deck this week: Tomorrow: Conclusion of the current mystery, "The Stygian Library" for my Monster of the Week campaign. I'm intending this to be a season finale, and that we'll switch to a different game for a while. The three I'm most interested in running for a while are Trophy Gold, Impulse Drive, and Trail of Cthulhu.
Wednesday, my other group is on schedule to continue our PF2 "Age of Ashes" campaign.
No games here this weekend, but I'm gonna push for an in-house game next weekend. Masks will be required for those who attend, but the remote method just doesn't really generate any excitement from some of us and especially me. It's been a necessity for one person who rarely makes it down here, but overall it's just not us.
So how about you guys?
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I'm working late today, but it's all overtime, so no complaints.
As usual, no weekend gaming planned for me.
I've got next week off, but there is some bad crap happening with a product I'm responsible for, and I think I'll have to go in on Monday at least for damage control. On the sort-of bright side, at least the pandemic switched our plans to a staycation, so I won't have to cancel hotel reservations...
Pelgrane Press ran a one-hour Q&A at Gen Con Online for their new game "Swords of the Serpentine" that I'm a huge fan of (and was an official playtester: My name will be in the book as such.) It happened to be during my lunch hour, so I was able to watch it and participate in the chat. Turns out my old GM for the playtest campaign was there too. We hadn't crossed paths since January.
I also made the hard decision to cancel most of my Pathfinder subscriptions (Rulebook, Lost Omens, PFS, Modules). I'm just not playing Pathfinder much at all any more, and when I do, I find myself thinking that another game system would handle the situation/storyline better. I'm going to keep subscribing to the Adventure Path line through the end of "Agents of Edgewatch", and then I think I'll cancel that one too. PF2 is a very good game (I prefer it by far to both PF1 and 5e), but it doesn't really support my preferred gameplay style any more.
And in case anyone might be interested: I am looking at selling a bunch of RPG books. Most of these are PF1, with a few other systems thrown in. PM me if you're interested in anything. All prices negotiable.
Hello, all! What's going on this weekend? No games here. How about y'all?
First off, Cal, thanks for bumping this fun thread every week.
We move back into our actual home this weekend. I'm running jobs for a database I'm working on that keep timing out after hours of effort, so I'll be maintaining that throughout the weekend.
You're very welcome!
Ugh... I used to be the archivist for a branch of a big data acquisition/distribution company. This was back when data was still being stored on a medium that was similar to DATs (Data Audio Tapes). Sort of like cassette tapes but lightyears more storage space and much easier to handle and store than those old wagon wheel types of tape storage. The machine that housed all the tapes we called "the jukebox". Part of the job was archiving all new data that had been added that week to the database. For the most part, it was a fairly smooth-running process. But the timeouts. Good grief. They didn't happen often, but when they did the whole floor learned exciting new ways to put together and express profanities.
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They are frustrating. Right now, we're migrating tables from one server to another in preparation for scripts to merge the data. But we're in Test right now, so it's not a huge deal if it takes too long. But when we do it for real, we'll have to take the system that relies on the database down, and I'm a bit anxious about how long that downtime will last because it will be dependent on me to finish the task before the scripts run. So I'm just trying to think about the different ways to do this work to minimize timeouts, and even wondering if those different ways will even make a difference.
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Fall of Plaguestone coming up this Sunday. Games are curtailed a bit with new work schedules, as I'm now on swing shift until late evening and also working Saturdays. But Sunday and Monday are clear, which jives with my roommates schedules as well. Just gotta get through tomorrow to my weekend.
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Some NWN stuff tonight. My Warforged is going to - hopefully - start learning to use a new class, then I have to supervise a few PCs having a wedding because they're getting some special magic involved in the ceremony that needs DM oversight. (Nothing lewd, but the spell in question is from BOEF, funny enough.)
Savage Tide tomorrow afternoon, then another NWN quest event tomorrow night.
Sunday surprisingly I'm not scheduled to do anything, though I'll probably end up doing some housework or errands and playing some other games.
Scint ordered a Switch which is supposed to arrive on Monday, but she'll probably be on it playing Animal Crossing all day once it does.
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I got my check with all the over time from the last couple of weeks.
I still haven't decided if I'm going to get it all in ones so the General can stuff it in my underwear and make it rain.
Or if I'll get it all in change and see how deep i can get a Scrooge McDuck money vault with it.
Both are worthy goals.
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The Dwarven Fortress of Paperbreaches has finally fallen, overwhelmed by a goblin siege that managed to slay all of the military - though they took many of the enemy with them to the grave - and breached the fortress to enter and slay the workers, the children, the infirm, and the insane.
A new fortress, Palacebulwark, was swiftly founded only to be almost instantly destroyed by an infestation of Wereskinks.
A new fortress again has arisen, Lashedenjoys. May it stand longer than the four hours or so its predecessor survived, and may there be far fewer goblins and lycanthropes. STRIKE THE EARTH!!
EDIT: And we've already found gold! Huzzah!!
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Warforged Girl has her quest - she is possibly being recruited by an agent of Oberon to join his Green Knights and help drive Far Realm corruption out of the realm of Faerie and the Summerlands before the Summer Solstice marks the decline of Summer's reign and turns power toward the recovering Winter Court.
Savage Tide turned into a shopping session as the group returned from the dungeon, sold off their loot, and bought or crafted a bunch of stuff.
In tonight's quest. My tiefling theurge and her party are pursuing a shadowy Far Realm-Fey hybrid creature through a corrupted part of the Summerlands. We're currently trying to figure out a puzzle regarding a hijacked portal.
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Two games on deck for me this week...
Earlier this evening, I ran Session Zero of the new "Powered by the Apocalypse" game Brindlewood Bay by Jason Cordova. In this game, the PCs are a group of elderly women who have retired to the touristy town of Brindlewood Bay, Massachusetts, and are members of the Murder Mavens Mystery Book Club. They frequently find themselves solving real-world crimes. In the course of the investigations, they stumble across a dark conspiracy that involves supernatural forces. It's basically, "Murder She Wrote meets The Shadow Over Innsmouth".
I'm playing in our PF2 "Age of Ashes" game tomorrow.
I am contemplating registering to run a game or two for the first annual Indie Games On Demand Online mini-convention. I may end up just singing up to play in a game or two.
Hey, everyone! Any dice-rattling going on this weekend? Nothing here this weekend, unless you count a local steakhouse having an all you can eat steak special this weekend, which I will be attending, arteries be damned. I was offered the invitation to join an online game on Sundays and was hoping to have already jumped on board it, but this will be the third weekend in a row that I won't be able to participate in. I've got relatives coming in for the weekend, some I've not seen in 35 years so I figure I should make time for them.
What about the rest of us? Any doins?
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Tyrant's Grasp is cancelled for this weekend. I'm probably going to be getting on our private Ark server instead.
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No actual gaming for me this weekend.
I just signed myself up to run a four-session series on The Gauntlet's regular calendar: The OSR sci-fi horror adventure "Dead Planet," written for the Mothership RPG. I love the module but am kind of cool toward the Mothership rules, so I am going to run the game using the rules-light RPG Offworlders instead. (Thursday nights in October.)
Both systems use stripped-down rules, so converting the monsters and hazards isn't going to be particularly tough from a mechanical perspective.
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Our Sunday gaming continues to roll, as we see the results of our Blood Pig bout in Curse of the Crimson Throne. Do we abandon the published material to become Blood Pig champions, defending our title by bumrushing our opponents into the hungry jaws of wolverines? Or do we continue on with our heroic efforts to save the city? I guess we'll find out!
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NWN Quest Tonight. We're off to the Summer Court of the Fey.
Savage Tide should be resuming tomorrow.
Another NWN Quest Sunday night, kicking some devil tail hopefully.
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I'm going to bask in my masterwork craftsmanship this weekend.
I might do some else to, but we'll see.
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Too busy getting ready for virtual learning and moving my home office to do anything fun this weekend.
Happy Friday, everyone!
How was everyone's week? What are your plans for the weekend/upcoming week?
For me...
On Tuesday, I ran Session One of the PbtA game Brindlewood Bay by Jason Cordova. The Murder Mavens started investigating the suspicious drowning of an eccentric millionaire who'd grown up in the town, and made a fortune on Wall Street. The game is fascinating in that the GM doesn't determine who the murderer is at the start of the game: Clues go out to the PCs on successful "Meddling" rolls, and it's up to them to put together a compelling narrative. Whether or not their suspicions are correct depend on the results of their "Theorize" roll. I'll also note that this is an RPG without a combat system.
On Wednesday, our Pathfinder group made it to the Boss Battle of Age of Ashes #2 Cult of Cinders. We've positioned for the battle and rolled initiative, but didn't have time to start the fight. (I have to say that I'm getting kind of bored with Pathfinder and D&D: Scenarios all seem to boil down to one fight after another. I guess that's just the nature of playing what's at its heart a tactical miniatures wargame with role-playing elements bolted onto the side...)
Looking ahead...
I just signed up to run two events at Games On Demand Online, a small online convention that's running Aug 28-30 (*next* weekend). I'll be running the intro adventure for Swords of the Serpentine, and also Trophy Dark: The Forest of Blades. If I can clear my calendar, I'll also try to squeeze in a game on Sunday.
And farther out, I will be running the same two games at Gauntlet Con 2020, The Gauntlet's annual online gaming convention. I may run another game, or I may decide to only run two and play some this year.
I'll be running a four-game series of Swords of the Serpentine on The Gauntlet next month on Thursday nights. It looks pretty popular: The sessions all filled within an hour of my posting them, and there are more people on the wait list than there are slots for players!
I'm following that in October with a four-game series of the sci-fi/horror module Dead Planet, written for the sci-fi OSR game Mothership. I'm kind of cool toward the Mothership game rules, so I'm going to run it using the stripped-down PbtA sci-fi game Offworlders instead.
Our Sunday gaming continues to roll, as we see the results of our Blood Pig bout in Curse of the Crimson Throne. Do we abandon the published material to become Blood Pig champions, defending our title by bumrushing our opponents into the hungry jaws of wolverines? Or do we continue on with our heroic efforts to save the city? I guess we'll find out!
Ah, Old Korvosa, home of not one but two popular bloodsports! (The other being Knivesies.)
Nothing here. We were actually on track to (remotely) get together for Saturday when 2/3 of my players ended up with circumstances they really couldn't control, so gaming's off again.
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Tyrant's Grasp group played (remotely) last night. Still aren't out of Book 1.
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Ah, Old Korvosa, home of not one but two popular bloodsports! (The other being Knivesies.)
I loved Knivesies.
Plaguestone has gone about as expected. We found a half-orc cleric (new 5th player) and put him to use in the final battle of part 2. The fighter and rogue went down with more persistent damage, same as the last couple fights. Once again, tactical deployment of tanglefoot bags allowed for our most successful tactic: Shooting Fish In A Barrel. Now we're level 3 and assaulting the lair of what we hope is the final boss.
No game this weekend, and likely nothing next weekend, either. I gotz other things goin' on.
How about the rest of us?
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Ran a NWN quest tonight, running another one tomorrow.
Savage Tide also tomorrow.
Playerside in a third NWN quest on Sunday.