In my big Baldur's Gate 3 post, I said that I might update the diary at the end of the post as I continued my playthroughs. Instead, I've decided to write a fresh post for each playthrough, as long I'm interested in documenting my experiences with the game. Caveats I'm not a particularly skilled gamer. If you're…
I've decided to take a sabbatical from teaching my Wiccan Grove, Acorn Garden. I won't resume teaching until 2025 at the earliest. Or perhaps it's time to acknowledge that, after 25 years of teaching the Craft, it's time to step aside.
This is not a review of Baldur's Gate 3. The game has been reviewed (massively so!), received almost every honor the gaming industry can award, and has been out for several months (after a playtest of many years). This makes it ideal for my series of unimportant reviews. However, I'm doing something else: I'm documenting why I…
As I idly clicked through the tag cloud of this blog, I realized that I hadn't written my annual Passover post for 2024. That's because I didn't host a seder this year. This what I wrote on Facebook: It looks like my Passover seder is cancelled this year. That's good news. How so? Over the past five…
I plan to write a long-ish blog post in which I gush about Baldur's Gate 3. Before I start crafting an unnecessary essay about a current game that's been reviewed and praised elsewhere, I feel a desire to wrap up the remaining games in my series: reviews of games that have been released and reviewed so long…
A few days ago, I received another box from Awaken Realms: Of course, the important question is: How did the cats react? Awaken Realms' Vault Story Dice are fancy optional dice for use in various games. You can easily make out the boxes that contain the Tainted Grail and Etherfields dice. What's in the other three? Actually,…
I recently received Kings of Ruin, the latest game in the Tainted Grail saga. Awaken Realms specializes in these large-scale narrative games that come with elaborate miniatures, and Kings of Ruin is no exception. Let's see what the cats think of it. Let's look at the game from the less-relevant human perspective. Narratively, Kings of Ruin is…
qaStaHvIS wa'SaD cha'vatlh jaj tlhIngan Hol vIHaDtaH = I have studied the Klingon language for 1200 days. In my post 1111 Days of Klingon, I said it might be my last post on Klingon. Obviously, it wasn't. In a "what the heck" mood, I decided to try the first lesson of "Section 4" in the Duolingo course.…
As I'm finishing my lunch, I hear a sequence of beeps that sound like a fire alarm go off somewhere in my apartment complex. This is not unusual, so I wait a minute or two for someone to take care of it. (Technically, Wrong Thing #1.) I stick my head out of my apartment. Amongst the beeps…
Look at what I got! This is a follow-up photo to the original: What's going on? Is the The Elements of Ritual, Revised Edition that good? While I won't say it isn't, that's not why I have two copies. It boils down to over-enthusiasm. When Deborah announced her book last year, it appears that I placed an…