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Various Weekend Events and RPG Updates
Sep. 19th, 2022 10:11 pmThree dinners and events on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night have left me feeling a little washed out, although all the gatherings were excellent. On Friday night I was joined by Des, Sim, and Robbie as we spent an evening at the Kent St Bar and Hotel Jesus. After the dinner and conversation, Sim insisted on teaching me the Auslan alphabet and a few words, the former of which is remarkably easy to pick up. The following night attended an event of the Wild Arts Club/Bohemian Adventures for an excellent Tom Wait's special event and slow friending at the Hare Hole. Again, a sort of unaggressive barroom jazz that I can tolerate and with appealing content. I loved the fact that the table questions were derived from Waits' lyrics. Finally, on Sunday night had what is coming to be a regular dinner with business partner Anthony L., and Robin M.
Another activity over the weekend is that I bought myself a bike for the coming months of sunshine ("laughs in Melbourne"). Specifically, a Trek 7.1 FX, which is really an excellent road bike and one which I picked up for quite a bargain. When the weather is suitable, I quite love cycling, it operates at a pace that is sufficiently speedy but also allows immersion into the environment, somewhere in-between walking-running pace and that of a motorised vehicle. Also, it is obviously good for health reasons.
For RPG updates, RPG Review issue 55-56 are, of course, late as usual. This issue is a special on "Law and Politics", and we're still getting a bunch of content together. I'm writing a social development system for GURPS, taking the existing technology levels that the game uses and introducing institutional and legal technologies and the scope of different governments. It's beginning to read and look like a social theory essay, but that's understandable given that technology (physical and social) amplifies our activities. In actual play, continuing sessions with Burning Wheel Thirty Year's War and GURPS Dark Sun on Monday and Thursday evenings respectively. The former is proving very entertaining delving deeply into a fantasy version of the chaos that was early modern Germany.
Another activity over the weekend is that I bought myself a bike for the coming months of sunshine ("laughs in Melbourne"). Specifically, a Trek 7.1 FX, which is really an excellent road bike and one which I picked up for quite a bargain. When the weather is suitable, I quite love cycling, it operates at a pace that is sufficiently speedy but also allows immersion into the environment, somewhere in-between walking-running pace and that of a motorised vehicle. Also, it is obviously good for health reasons.
For RPG updates, RPG Review issue 55-56 are, of course, late as usual. This issue is a special on "Law and Politics", and we're still getting a bunch of content together. I'm writing a social development system for GURPS, taking the existing technology levels that the game uses and introducing institutional and legal technologies and the scope of different governments. It's beginning to read and look like a social theory essay, but that's understandable given that technology (physical and social) amplifies our activities. In actual play, continuing sessions with Burning Wheel Thirty Year's War and GURPS Dark Sun on Monday and Thursday evenings respectively. The former is proving very entertaining delving deeply into a fantasy version of the chaos that was early modern Germany.