Fuck. Just…. Fuck. We're all going to be dealing with the negative consequences of this election for years, if not decades. My wish is that everyone who voted for Trump personally gets everything they voted for.
In less horrible news, Friendsgiving was wonderful… minus the stomach bug that we all passed around starting Thursday night. Once I finally stopped puking, I slept like I haven’t slept in YEARS. Basically all of Saturday I spent unconscious.
With the holiday season now in full swing, I’m looking at what I can actually accomplish with the remainder of the year, and thinking about what I want to do for next year. Back in 2023 I did my #Dungeon23 daily writing prompt, and I really enjoyed the experience. I’m thinking about doing a similar project, #Hex25
Gaming
While I didn't actually get 2 session reports per week written, it kinda averaged out to close enough.
In Stonehell my players wrapped up their exploration of the sewers and moved back into the Sepulcher, and then ended up down on level 8, and talking with a friendly stone giant. They decided to head home, and do some research on the Plated Mage. We’re pausing Stonehell for December, and one of my players is going to run some Mothership.
The Caves of Chaos game has had too many bumped sessions due to work conflicts, but I’m looking forward to getting in a few more sessions before Christmas and New Years.
Miniatures
I decided to paint up the Frostgrave cultists I'd assembled and primed ages ago. You can guess why cultists were suddenly on my mind. It's too bad I assembled them with skull face masks rather than red baseball caps. I painted them up to work with the king in yellow cultists that have been the main type of cultist that I paint. I also finished the fish faced Stargrave grunt I started months ago, a stained glass construct, and a couple of gelatinous cubes (and their meals).
I started working in earnest on Baba Yaga's hut, but that didn't get done this month. It's a big mini…
Media
Star Trek Lower Decks (season 5 and rewatch of seasons 1-4)
Deadpool & Wolverine
Silo (season 2)
Ghosts
Loot
I’m adding this section because it’s a rare month that I don’t get something new, usually in the mail from some Kickstarter that I backed months, or even years ago. Honestly I tend to ignore most kickstarter updates, assume everything will be late, and am just pleasantly surprised when it does show up.
This month's delivery was Stewpot, tales from a fantasy tavern, a game about a group of adventurers settling down and making a new life for themselves. I finished reading the book, and… It is a very different sort of game than I’m used to. Much more in the storytelling side of things. The actual rules for the various mini games that make up the scenarios are simple. I would be interested in actually trying it out, but reading through it, it feels less like a game and more like a loose framework to tell a very specific sort of story. Maybe when you boil it down that isn’t all that different from basic D&D, but…
Goals for December
Keep up with the Stonehell session reports, and get at least 1 Caves of Chaos session report written per week.
