I did mention GMing previously but the truth was that I basically just managed to run two single session games of the episodic nature before one of the players (the same person every time) had to quit for real life reasons. But now due to what I’ve come to call the Fiasco due to the aforementioned person that resulted in an end to 10 years of Internet friendship (it did lead to the creation of a new Discord channel reuniting us with long lost connections off a website we all used to frequent and subsequently broke away from) and a Spelljammer inspired campaign that is not done, I am now officially taking over as the GM for that particular Spelljammer campaign to run in FATE core.
We invited a new player into the group since we initially thought that we are now minus one PC character now that I have become GM but actually now I have decided to become a PC-GM i.e I am both player and GM (I don’t think how that’s going to run in practice and I will report in on a future date if that has particular interesting issues but in theory it shouldn’t be a problem in the FATE environment). Current progress is that we have concluded many session -1s to talk through FATE rules (because we are a bunch of FATE newbies) and are wrapping up character creation. The actual game is only starting after I come back from my upcoming May trip to Spain&Portugal (For those curious, we have 6 bases, 3 each across the two countries: Barcelona, Madrid and Seville for Spain and Faro, Porto and Lisbon for Portugal. I concluded the last EU trip was a little too ambitious in scope so trimmed down on the number of bases to make the trip more leisurely in pace).
However, I got myself into a play by post AD&D game in Discord. I also dived into the deep end in this game by declaring that I would determine my character class by the first dice roll and not buy myself into any particular one which our GM allowed us to. The result is that I am now a bard since my dice rolls came out to be quite well balanced. Somewhere along the way during our character creation, I was also handed an electronic copy of Central Casting and I ran wild with dice rolling. So now, my character who is currently a jaw-dropping beauty in AD&D terms has 4 romances, all with once intense rivals until she/they realised suddenly that the rivalry stemmed from mutual love. I decided that two romances were actually with the same guy whose family forbade our love. She also has 4 siblings: 3 elder brothers and 1 young sister. The eldest brother was killed as a child and the two remaining brothers all got kidnapped by interplanar humanoids and came back washed of all their memories. The young sister got adopted by a wealthy family (I decided before I rolled the dices for Central Casting that I was an orphan so my 4 siblings must have been in the orphanage with me). But the following was the best part of the dice rolls for me: my second brother tattooed a word on his face while my young sister tattooed a claw on her face in their adolescence because that was the fashion trend in Qin, the AD&D equivalent of ancient China.
Finally, not sure if I’m taking May off in terms of blogging or scheduling ahead to cover for it. We will see- it depends on whether or not I am inspired enough in terms of writing up blog posts for designated headings.
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