Archive for February, 2009

Very old school roleplaying

Posted by Rockjaw in Gamey, Nerd Alert, Personal on February 28th, 2009

Friendly stalkers might have seen me muttering recently about virtual tabletops, as I seem to be going through another of my phases where I think about getting back into regular roleplaying – as in face to face, dice-rolling, character sheet-checking roleplaying. Old-school, in other words.

(Notice I said ‘think’, because these ideas rarely go anywhere. What I’ve discovered over the last few years is that for me, roleplaying as a hobby isn’t about the roleplaying anymore – it’s about the socialising, and that means my requirements for a gaming group have gotten tougher. To put it bluntly, I have to like people before I can enjoy roleplaying with them. Sounds obvious, I know, but I tend to forget that my best roleplaying memories were generally with people I knew as friends first and roleplayers second; it’s easy to delude myself into thinking that the activity will make me like someone, and that doesn’t happen.)

(Having said that, I’ve got some pretty fun memories of playing games with total strangers, as that seems to bring out the sociopathic side of my personality. Thinking about it, it’s surprising I’m not the world’s biggest online griefer.)

Anyway; this actually isn’t a precursor to me boring you with my roleplaying memories. Some random searches later brought me to a whole host of roleplaying blogs (because of course being supreme geeks, roleplayers are all over the web) and led me to an interesting phenomenon: the resurrection of old-school roleplaying. I mean real old-school. I mean… original Dungeons & Dragons. Read the rest of this entry »

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An idea and a question

Posted by Rockjaw in Personal on February 25th, 2009

As you may have noticed, this blog’s been a bit inactive. That’s primarily because it’s not serving its purpose, which is to talk about work-related stuff. As I’m ‘between’ jobs right now (it’s complicated, but don’t worry, it’s fine) there’s not a hell of a lot I can talk about, for various reasons.

However, at the same time, I miss writing here; I miss writing in general. I’m occasionally popping up over at Limited Edition, and if you want to read about a fine coffee shop I even maintain the Moksha site now – but apart from Twitter, I’m not in direct contact much.

So I had an idea: change the focus here, tweak things a bit, and start writing again. Change the focus to what? Well, me I guess, although I won’t be posting introspective gazes into the deepest recesses of my psyche just yet. No, I suppose I’d just be talking about stuff that interests me.

Having said this, the idea of a work-focused blog isn’t going to go away. I just might set one up somewhere else, maybe, in time.

Good idea? Bad idea? Don’t give a damn one way or the other? That’s the question. I appreciate your opinions, and your patronage, so I figured I’d ask.

Also: how the hell are you?

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