So I just browsed and drank hot tea. Nothing
else.
I first discovered Greyhawk Online, and then
Greyhawk Grognard, and then a bunch of links catapulted me towards
numerous other blogs and – literally – a week of reading round-the-clock Sword+1
/ The Retired Adventurer / Hack & Slash / Roles, Rules & Rolls / Grognardia
/ Hamsterish Hoard... and many more.
Bless you all, guys!
Not only did it help me through that damn
deep freeze, but it also came as some sort of revelation. Role-playing games
were still alive and well, after all. Lots of people were still passionate
about them, playing them, enjoying them, even writing about them. So, it was
not just me and my friends putting together one meagre three-hour game session
every five months or so, and not remembering a single thing about it five
months later. We were not the only
few survivors slowly dying out in our forgotten hole!
That was a wonderful and amazing realization.
I made the decision to partake in this
exhilarating online scene, and write a blog of my own, even though I’m as good
with computers as Boromir is with Tamagotchis. My previous blog is about Steven
Erikson, but it is quite ugly, visually speaking. Let’s try to do just a tiny
bit better this time around, shall we? But don’t expect me to successfully slap
a money-making ad here, or even create functioning downloads or links. As for
those “donate” gizmos, they’re sci-fi to me, and I honestly can’t understand
how money from online could ever reach some dude in meatspace. If you’d like to
give me five bucks, just go out and give it to the Korean guy at your local
drugstore; eventually, it’ll get to me. It’s called the Economy. (Goldman
Sachs, I hope you’re not lying about that.)
Of course, I’m probably gonna run out of
(interesting) stuff to say in a short while, but let’s do it regardless – this thing
happens to be the only RPG project that truly motivates me in at least four
years!