Showing posts with label muni. Show all posts
Showing posts with label muni. Show all posts

Monday, March 16, 2020

About me, early 2020

In my very first post I mentioned a friend who blogged about mountain unicycling. Even though he's not into gaming, he used to follow this blog, which was helpful because he would point out my inevitable typos.

I made my last couple posts, and noticed that he didn't say anything about them. I assumed that my recent 2 year "blog fade" caused him to unsubscribe under the theory that I would never post again. I mentioned it to him, and he said that he did get notification, but that my recent posts were "so outside my interests I didn't think it made sense to stay subscribed." That made sense to me, because he's not a gamer and my recent posts have been about "gaming" and not about "me."

So what's new with me, the Vagabond GM?

The sad truth is that I haven't gamed in a long, long time.

I had a tabletop group back in 2015. It was a good group, and we had fun. But I had to kill that game when I had a business trip that lasted the better part of a year. When I got back I started a Roll20 campaign that lasted for a while, but eventually that ended too.

I'm an introvert. I don't go out to meet strangers to game with. My gaming always involves someone I know. My last tabletop group was my fiancée, her daughter, a friend, and his wife. My fiancée isn't really a gamer, her daughter is away at university, and my friend and his wife moved away.

My online games have always involved James and/or Pete, guys I've been gaming with since the (junior) high school. James and Pete are both working weird nighttime shifts that make them unavailable to play online.

So that leaves me, a Vagabond GM, wandering around with no one to play with.

Sunday, May 6, 2012

First Post!

So I've had this account with Blogger forever, and have been wanting to blog about something.  The problem was that no matter what idea I came up with, I could never figure out why someone else would want to read about it.  Then inspiration came to me through a friend who has a great blog about mountain unicycling.  Even though I have no real interest in mountain unicycling, I very much enjoy reading his posts.  When I told him this he seemed surprised.  "I don't really write for other people," he explained. "I just write for myself."

So this is me, doing what he does: writing for myself about something that I love.  If no one ever reads this, I'll be fine with it.