Last week I had a game scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
None of them worked out. As we did not get to game. However, I got to
hangout with some cool folks and talk a lot about gaming. Monday night
I had the pleasure to speak with +Rob Conley and +Daniel McEntee. My local gaming crew. Then on Wednesday night +Chris C. and
I got to hangout and discuss a lot about gaming philosophies. We will
always disagree about anime and Supertramp, but it's always a pleasure
talkoing with Chris. And on Friday night it was +Peter V. Dell'Orto and +Douglas Cole.
I got to pay my respects to Peter, I often forget how much fantastic
writing he's done for GURPS that I have read and use. And Doug with his
Technical Grappling system that we published in Manor #8.
While
we didn't get to game it was great just talking about gaming.
Something I don't do very often. While we share a lot on blogs and
Google+, there is rarely a conversation. I think Chris and I were
talking about the virtues of monochrome covers of the old TSR modules.
Doug
and Peter were talking about GURPS Thursday and that made me want to
dig out some of my old stuff and participate. I might not have my
GURPS chops any more, but I still got some gas in the tank and I'm not
afraid to go back to 3rd edition GURPS.
Rob, Dan and I
were discussing a joint project. It's cool to sit down face-to-face
with friends and go over ideas and progress made and see how it all fits
together.
While no games were played, time was well spent.
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It was definitely time well spent. I had a good time on Friday. Doug got a useful Heretical D&D approach out of it. And we got to chat about The Manor.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the praise for my books, too. I have a hard time taking compliments gracefully. But I'm very happy that the stuff I write or co-write has been useful to you.
"We will always disagree about anime and Supertramp, but it's always a pleasure talking with Chris."
ReplyDeleteBecause the one thing we always CAN agree on is puerile, potty-mouth, locker-room humor.
Amen to that.
DeleteUnfortunately for me, whenever my games don't work out, it's due to people not showing up... so no talking to be had at my table.
ReplyDeleteI do love getting to talk with people about games, though. That's part of the reason I prefer to hang out at locally-owned game stores instead of the big bookstores.