I have some fiction-related stuff coming soon, but this is another RPG-related post, specifically a book review.
Blood in the Chocolate by Kiel Chenier
Month: December 2017
Hooding a Yuan-Ti, Wandering 1930s Shanghai
Not interested in RPGs or specifically in comments on someone’s recent games? Yeah, you’ll want to skip this post. Interested in and/or playing Trail of Cthulhu or D&D 5E? Though this post has no spoilers, it links places that has spoilers. This post should be fine, but watch those links. (And unlike movie spoilers—which don’t bother me—I think game scenario spoilers can ruin an RPG session or campaign, so… you’ve been warned.)
So About That Novel I’ve Been Writing…
Having finished a draft I finally feel is, well, finished (in its way), I guess this is as good a time as any to jot down some thoughts on the project so far. Those not interested in a look at the fumbling, stumbling, and very difficult process it took me to get to the end of my first possibly-decent novel draft ought to skip this post.
Trail of Cthulhu: First Impressions & Campaign Journal
I had a chance to join an online game of Trail of Cthulhu (on the local Discord tabletop RPG server), and we had our first session last night. I though I’d record my thoughts here, and then follow up with a brief journal entry in-character. If you’re not interested in RPGs, you may want to skip this. If you are interested in RPGs, then your mileage with this post will vary depending on how experienced you are with Gumshoe, whether the spoilers in the campaign log will ruin anything for you. Beneath the cut, the post is marked up periodically to …