The Green Room (OOC)

[Grognardsw]

OM how was Garycon?

[OGRE MAGE]

Despite some bumps in the road, we actually had a lot of fun there.

I played in some Fate of the Norns, Mothership, Trail of Cthulhu, OSE, Hyperborea, and some 1E.

Garycon isn't our favorite convention, but I thought they did a pretty good job putting it on with limited issues after a long 2 year delay.

Let me know if you ever want to swing out to give it a try for yourself some year.

[Grognardsw]

I would like to get out there someday, but work and family commitments prevent it. Perhaps in my retirement. In the meantime I make do with our local TotalCon, which has a respectable OSR track.

[jemmus]

I mentioned it in OM's Big Shiny Island thread, but I'm going to a local boardgaming con next week. It will be my first time playing an RPG in-person, with plastic polyhedron dice, since 1985. From then until 2019 was busy with work, patrolling for girlfriend/wife, and kids. Still busy with work, but when kids left home, had some free time again. Seriously looking forward to 3.5 hours of 5E RPG.

[OGRE MAGE]

I'd like to hear how that goes.

[Rex]

Enjoy jemmus!

[jemmus]

Thanks bro. I'm going with the missus, who's an oil painter originally from Japan and who has a big imagination. I bounce homebrew ideas off her, and she says, "That is so cool! It would be so cool if you guys had, like a map! Do you have a map? What if you were all assassins? On a mission, and the evil villain used finylmatol to eliminate all of the poor and takes over. And he finds out that his own daughter in an Ivy League college, who has a perfect life, but dad never suspected anything could be wrong-- is she's also addicted to finlymatol. The addiction he introduced is in his home too."

I think I'm going to take this imaginative person to a local RPG con this Saturday. Unless you guys say No. She could turn into some kind of who knows what. A Netflix GM or something.

[Grognardsw]

That's nice the wife wants to go. My wife, a non-gamer, would not go to a con.

[Rex]

I have never been to a convention and my wife probably wouldn't want to as she hates crowds, but she is a dedicated gamer as long as it is table top.

[jemmus]

Janx suddenly gets an earworm from some years ago. He stops what he's doing and tries to work out the guitar part on his six-string. (Bill Withers, "Use Me," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3hBYTkI)

[Grognardsw]

Is this an IC post?

[jemmus]

Sorry, wrong thread. Please feel free to move it.

[Grognardsw]

Hmm, I don’t know how to move a post.

[jemmus]

No bother, I guess Janx just played air guitar then.

[OGRE MAGE]

I am headed out for our spring vacation soon so my posting might be a little spotty for the next few weeks.

I will try to keep up with posts as best I can, but if I am MIA for a day or two, you'll know why.

Thanks!

[jemmus]

Have fun!
By the way, I missed wishing you RPers of stoners Happy 420 (April 20) Day yesterday. Which I didn't know existed until yesterday.

[Bluehorse]

Time to play the Iron Butterfly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIVe-rZBcm4

[Grognardsw]

[jemmus]

That song was supposed to be titled 'In the Garden of Eden,' but the guy was so wasted when he did the vocals that it came out "in a gadda da vida.' True story. Well, if you can believe any rock and roll history story. There always seem to be more than one story about how something happened. I guess everybody was too wasted to remember correctly.

[Grognardsw]

Sorry for the delay. Spring is busy time at work and weekends have been family activities. Hope to have posts up in next couple of days.