When Summer Came for a One-Day Visit

[johan]

Marvellous weather yesterday. My diligent and never-ceasing production of carbon dioxide during 43 years paid off, and it was the hottest April day since they started keeping track. I was able to take the bike to work. It's a ten-mile (16 km) ride, so I don't like to do that when it's too cold or rainy. If it's cold I have to dress so that I won't freeze to death, and that will make me too hot during the ride, and I don't want to start my day in the office with a second shower.

But yesterday was perfect for this year's first bike ride to work. It takes about the same time as taking the bus, too, so the only drawback is I can't read. And today I will get the 6th edition Call of Cthulhu rules that darnia bought on my behalf, so I can start planning the roleplaying campaign I'm going to launch in a couple of months. I have lots of ideas for it, let's hope I will manage to make something of them as well.

And I got my sf news blog Fanspan started again. Gosh, ain't I industrious?

Comments

[dalmeny]

so I can start planning the roleplaying campaign I'm going to launch in a couple of months

dmw has had the same idea. He's been plotting and our pile of bathroom reading now includes several old Dragon magazines.

[jophan.livejournal.com]

Will it be AD&D 1st edition, my first true love? I so remember my first D&D session where we met an evil cleric who, desperate to do us in, cast a "Slow poison" at us. The gamesmaster then looked the spell up to see exactly how slow the poison was and how much damage it would do, and blushed in pretty pink.

[dalmeny]

Will it be AD&D 1st edition, my first true love?

Yours too? I won a school prize in my first year of high school and bought the DM's Guide with the book token. Then the headmaster had to present to me in the end-of-year ceremony.

Alas, dmw is not fond of AD&D so I expect we will use another system. He's still deciding, I think.

[jophan.livejournal.com]

Yours too?

Oh, yes. I found the blue booklet (http://www.rpgnow.com/products/WOTC/tsr2001.jpg) version of the basic rules in a shop - the only one in Sweden that sold that kind of game in 1980 - and introduced it to a couple of friends, but we quickly upgraded to AD&D after a couple of months.

Alas, dmw is not fond of AD&D

Well, to be honest I'm not either, not any longer. Too clunky, too disorganised. I think it was Aldiss who wrote something like -"favourites in literature, just like the taking of lovers, rarely begins in exalted taste"-, and the same goes for roleplaying games, I suppose.

[jophan.livejournal.com]

Yes, I still remember the episode. Can't blame him, though, we were just beginners. It's fascinating, it's still fun, roleplaying, but in a quite different way when you're an adult.

[damienw]

Heh, I've been looking without success for my 4th ed CoC: I think I must have lent it to someone... maybe I should look into this "sixth" of which you speak, especially since we just played that Arkham board game also.

[jophan.livejournal.com]

I think I have a battered copy of the third edition out in the garage somewhere, but I thought it was time to upgrade!