House hunt delayed

I was supposed to head down to Elfrida this week to check on property with some acreage. That's been delayed at least a week, so my personal hell continues.

No con

Well, chalk up another failure for the doddering old fool. Just couldn't get it together to make the drive to the con. These days, I'm doing good if I get out of bed. Life sucks!

NTRPGCon

Another con coming up this weekend. Get to visit my boys and one will join me for a day of gaming (the other two dis the whole gaming scene). Hopefully, my friend Tree can make the trip with me. I'm not real comfortable going places by myself, but I will for their sake. This may be my last con of the year, though I may hit Phoenix if somethin's goin' on there.

Next year, I want to make a TrollCon and RinCon in Tuscon is on the agenda.

Still cranky

This stuff is killin' me, but I keep doin' it. Still no real help for me, but as long as I don't move nothin' breaks! Just did a big update to my site and I still hate these machines but one day, I'll get a handle on things.

A shift in energies

I still don't know why I keep up this insane quest of mine, but I've actually been working on my long dormant website! If you'd like a peek, it's called The Reliquary.

Life sucks!

I'm not sure how much longer I can continue this damned charade of mine. I'm a gamer with no game.

Still kickin'

Still here, still addicted, still alone, still confused. Same ol' s**t, different day.

Still toughin' it out!

Well, it was hell getting to the con. Two days of misery and I was a couple o' hours late for my first event, cancelled because I wasn't there. Nobody like gamers, though. Had my discomfort, but it was a fine weekend in a fine place. Rusty as I am, my remaining events went well, but it wasn't until my last one that everything really came together and it was a bomber session.

The trip back was miserable as well, but worked out a bit better than the trip there.

All in all, a great time. Dunno if I'll be able to make it next year. Sights are on a TrollCon. But if my situation improves, I might be able to make both next year. Maybe I can even make another Con Quest!

Gary Con

Well, I'm keeping up this nonsense even though I still have no idea of what I'm really doing anymore. What can I say? I'm a gamer.

Anyway, GaryCon is in six days and I'm scramblin' to get ready. I done all of my printing out, now I need to prepare mentally, not an easy task given my mush for brains and the continual distractions in this place, but cheese land, here I come!

I live a completely hopeless life...

I don't know why I even continue with this charade. It's Saturday, a beautiful day, and I'm still so far behind that I won't take the time to enjoy it. I hate technology, but I keep trying to use it as if I knew what I was doing. Meanwhile, my health stays in the sewer.

I ain't a fan o' kids and I live next to a damned high school! In my condition, I ain't even a fan o' people! I fiddle-futz w/ gaming sites and blogs because I have no friends except online.

I need help and life is just too damned fast for this old geezer!

Still losin' my mind

I'm trying to get ready for GaryCon, but it's not easy anymore. I'm losin' my mind in this place. My life is completely fantasy. All I know of the outside world is that it's dangerous. Meanwhile, I try to carry on, listening to my music, watching the tube, trying to game with no gamers. My only friends are online, blah, blah, blah...

Ho hum

I'm still here, still wastin' time. Good thing I have nice neighbors. If they really knew how screwed up I really am, I'd be in a lot more trouble. So much for privacy. I'm all over the place on this infernal machine.

Wastin' time

Damn, I wish there wasn't so damned much to do around here and I wasn't so damned screwed up. I just don't know where to start, so I end up just screwin' around not accomplishing much of anything. Dunno if anyone reads this thing, but I like messin' with it even if I do say a bunch o' nuthin'.

Working folks

Well, just found out that one of my players just started a new job that conflicts with game night and that also affects two other players. I really wish I could work. I've set up a poll to find an alternate time.

Another bust!

Looks like another week gone by and no group. I just don't know about wasting my time in this hell hole anymore. Sigh...

Another night

Well, I'm waiting for my group once more, so we'll see how tonight's session goes.

Clunky but done

It's not a real pleasure gaming in this place, but I got it done. Started them off in "Keep on the Borderlands" with a paladin, a dwarven fighter, an elven fighter/magic-user, an elven druid and a halfling thief played by an eight year-old girl. I wasn't going to run "Keep" but my first player said he'd never been through it and only one other had been through it years and years ago. I wasn't really prepared for it, not having had a chance to review and the last time I ran the thing, it was KenzerCo's "Little Keep...." The little girl is terribly brassy so I had to work really hard to keep her out of trouble (gimme a break - first session, first level characters and she's eight). In fact it was a challenge getting 'em all back to safety.

The resident spell-lobber decided the bounty for orc ears was the quickest way to make money, so they set out wandering about the countryside. Tried to warn him of the peril of random encounters but he's 22 and only familiar with wuss D&D and not Gary's lethality (character only has 4 hp, as well!). Rolled two randoms, %iles dictated they'd found their quarry for the first one. They ran into 19 orcs! All would've been well had the druid cast her entangle right off the bat, but she decided to engage. They were in trouble after the first round. Second round, the halfling was in flight and the paladin and F/MU were down! The druid got her spell off, allowing them to escape.

They limped back to the keep, but I'd rolled an encounter for the afternoon and it came up hill giant! I lobbed an out-of-range boulder and chased them back to base. When they arrived, giant just coming into view, the guards laughed at them, waiting until the last moment to drop the drawbridge chasing the giant away with a volley of arrow fire.

They showed up at the chapel begging mercy. The Curate told the paladin of his mistrust of the visiting priest, so in exchange for healing, they're to find out his purposes and deal with him if those purposes are inimical to the keep. Next stop, I believe, will be the Mines of Chaos, priest encouraging them on.

I think I may incorporate HackMaster's concept of a hp kicker to increase their survivability. The strongest one has 12 hp, the paladin 11 and there's an 8, two 6's and the lowly 4 hp F/MU. I do believe they need a little help.

Game night tonight

Well, it's game night tonight and I hope I'm ready. I just wish I was ready for life in general. I'd swear I'm living in Hell and I don't know how to get out of it.

I'm figuring a goblin/orc scenario, the orcs having a bit o' money and the goblins guarding a sacred cave, a portal, the "Goblin Hole." Need to come up with half a dozen effects for going through this portal. Has to be something that might be holy to goblins, but tempting to the players.


I really wish my brain worked better.

A new group tonight?

I put out a call on Meet-up.com to try and get a group going again, the meet is tonight. I hope I get some understanding folks because all I'm doing in this place is spinning my wheels. It's a bummer to have absolutely no friends here.



Contents Under Pressure shall ride again!

I hate this place!

Man, I love music, but they have the same stuff coming out of loudspeakers all damned day and into the night here! The same refrain, over and over. I can't frickin' think straight in this place. God help me.