Still here! Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving.

I'm hoping to play some games with the kids since they don't have school this week. We played "Poetry for Neanderthals" yesterday ... I got to hit the boy a couple of times with the "No!" club. That's my definition of a great game!

Paul, I don't know if you still watch Survivor, but we had a surreal Survivor moment last night. I was looking at the new shows on Netflix and there were new episodes of Survivor. I started it up and Sudha's like ... "I know that person ... we used to work together!" Apparently one of the contestants was a tech writer at Oracle in Sudha's group. That could've been you!

BTW, when are we doing the Amazing Race! :-)

In reply to Ezra (msg # 52):

I'm checking in once to twice a month. So we're on the same schedule here, Daryl.

Man, if my life wasn't so booked solid, I would make a concerted effort to come see you. I'm so tired of interruptions in my gaming that I've gotten sort of tired of trying. The store is obviously customers needing help so I can't say no to that, and at home my girls do NOT get along so it's only a matter of time before games boil down to a petty argument that results in one person stomping away or being sent to their rooms... sigh. So yeah, a lake cabin and or another persons home sounds so amazing.

We were set to go up to Ian's for thanksgiving. Planned on a ton of games as I'm the expected game master at our families events, but today Trina (Ian's wife) tested positive. So we're staying home with no food since they were planning it... spaghetti dinner for Thanksgiving I guess. Neither Rebecca nor I want to go to the grocery store tomorrow. We're a tad bit lazy and a lot bit tired of trying.

I dusted off my Weird War Savage and started reading that. Also, my old RPG manager wrote a book (Jackals by Osprey) that's set in a fantasy sword and sandals world loosely based on Egypt, Rome, Babylon sort of empires. I sort of want to run that too but the idea of teaching and learning new systems... man I am whiny, and old, and tired...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Hope it's filled with love and gaming for you all.

Time for my bi-weekly checkin. Hope all of you are doing okay.

Happy New Year! May this year be better than the last.

I went to the front page and I see there is 64 posts in this group. I go into the group and I see 54 in this thread and 8 in the announcement thread ... for a total of 62.

Where did the other 2 posts go? hmmmm ... I bet there's a secret thread I'm not invited too. It's high school all over again!

In reply to Ezra (msg # 56):

Happy new year everyone.  I'm going to badger Paul tonight to get this thing rolling.  He teased a restart and then went dark.  I'm not having it!

You go Buzzby/Brett!

My Nephew (Sam's son (Paul might remember Sam)) just took a job at Amazon in the Seattle area. I now have another reason to head to the Pacific Northwest! Just need to get over this whole Covid thing so I can travel again.

In reply to Ezra (msg # 56):

You mean we're not part of the popular crowd? Ugh! Flashbacks!

Time for a check-in...

Just picked up the Labyrinth role playing game. Oddly they titled it adventure game which is what I define something like Talisman but, grasping at straws...
For young to tween kids it works pretty well. It's basically just a big book of encounters and you randomly play through a set number of them until you make it to the final encounter of the Goblin King. Not bad. If you want a light rpg I'd say it's worth looking into. It's about 5 years too late for my house but maybe I'll get to do it with grandchildren or my teens might take pity on me some day.

Reed and I have been playing 'The Loop' and the GI Joe Deck Builder, both cooperative, which is nice to not be nailed into the ground repetitively by Reed's luck when we play competitive.

Nothing really new to report. Just miss you all.

Just poking my head in.

Anybody else checking in periodically.

I picked up Everdell this week, so I'm going to try that with the kids (maybe tonight). I'm hoping I get to play the hedgehogs! Go Hedgehogs!

I have played several games of Everdell. It's good, but I still don't quite have a handle on what's going on/how to win. Sometimes a strategy that works well one game completely falls apart the next. Go hedgehogs!

Just thought I'd pop in here and see who else periodically checks (it's been a month or 2 for me though).

I still believe ... I still believe!

Anyone here?

I bought Root, but haven't had a chance to play it yet. It's thematically the type of game that the whole family likes (cute and cuddly forest critters), but direct conflict games tend to go over poorly at my house (only Ethan and I like them). We'll see if the asymmetric race rules makes it more interesting for the others.

Looking forward to using guerrilla tactics with my Woodland Creature Alliance to take down the haughty Cats and aloof Raptors.

Since my last update, we played Root. It was good, but very competitive. I messed up and went for the quick win with my cats. I couldn't pull it off. Ethan then came back from an untenable position to win with the birds/crows.

BTW, I also saw this and thought of Cam: https://ifelix.net/3d-talisman-board

A long time ago, I gave some thought to pulling together miniatures for all of the talisman characters, but couldn't find matching ones for about 1/2 (and decided that I couldn't paint fast enough to get 60+ miniatures done in a timely manner). It strikes me that it would be a much easier project now (there are quite a few more mini manufacturers and I'm a much faster painter now too).
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Saw this and thought it'd go well here: https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...very_category_newest

Anyone ever still check this place?

Thought I'd check in again! Anyone still poking there heads in here?

Just sent you all an email about finishing Evernight in 2024. I'll be creating a new thread for the start, but we can use this thread to start talking...

I love Root!

I have been playing Dayz as my video game escape reality mechanism.  If anybody wants to run with me, let me know!
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"Root!" didn't really take off at my house. I thought it looked fun, but it's a bit too competitive for my wife. Settlers of Catan has been making a comeback. It turns out my son's school library has a copy and he sometimes plays it over lunch with his friends.

I've taken a pass at updating my character, here https://ohoh7.atlassian.net/wi...es/1376292/Ezra+Mihn

I also noticed that there is now a bunch of initial skills you get for "free" (stealth, persuasion, etc) at character creation in the Adventure's Edition. I vaguely recall I had to pay points to get those. Should we be getting some "free" skill points too?

To be transparent, the min-maxer in me is intrigued by the Leadership Edges. In particular Tactician and Master Tactician with Natural Leader seem pretty amazing for making the entire party better in fights. So if I can redistribute some skill points to pick up Battle d6 and swap out 2 of my edges (Beast Bond and Common Bond probably (i.e. the 2 I just picked up)), I can pick up Command and Natural Leader. Then I can start to pick up some of the interesting Leadership Edges.

I tried keep up with Daryl's check in's and appears I forgot around spring last year. Now I feel crumby.

Okay, I'm trying to catchup on all the rules. TBH I'm not great with rules these days so I'll update character as I can figure it out.

I should be up to speed on all the log-ins and bookmarks, though, so minor victories!

Don't feel crumby on my account. I just pop in here periodically to wax lyrically on random topics. I also have a blog that no one but me ever reads. I'm used to talking to myself. :-)

When are we starting up again?

Is there a way to get alerts if someone posts to the main thread? I don't mind popping in every day (it helps me get back in the habit of checking) but I'd like to know if anyone is waiting on me too.

Under Your Account -> Preferences on the right there's a place to get Atom/RSS/RDF feeds.

You can plug those into a news reader and it will show up ... but the minus side is you now need to check a news reader (something like feedly). I'm not sure that's much help (unless you are using a reader semi-regularly already).

Although this page also has a number of ways to track an rss feed (minus the news reader):
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I...-feeds-into-my-email

The Google chrome one looks promising (assuming you use chrome). I might install it and see where that goes.
https://chromewebstore.google....jjehlcdlnohgmp?hl=en
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I played around with those but in the end opted to just put a daily weekday reminder to check on rpol.  :)
Sometimes, simplest is best. It doesn't help if someone posts a Kassidy-needs-to-reply entry, but at least you all know I should be no more than 23 hours and 55 minutes later.

That being said, I like the Google Chrome one and may end up using it for other things.