Yeah, about that …<\/p>\n
So I’ve been gaming a lot more of late, but not as one might expect from how this blog has been \/ used to be.<\/p>\n
Don’t cry for me, Paragon City …<\/em><\/p>\n The Homecoming revival of CoH is a marvel. It scratched an itch I’d been suffering from since the original game shut down.<\/p>\n And then, one day, the itch had been scratched.<\/p>\n A couple of things happened:<\/p>\n First, the dev team made a bunch of “improvements” to the transport system. In particular, they dropped the ability to teleport directly to bases from anywhere, which put a serious crimp in getting about Paragon. True, they added some extra bits, and that base teleport was always flagged as an “oops, we didn’t mean this to be publicly available,” and they added in some other ways to get around as well as improvements in travel powers …<\/p>\n But I decided I really didn’t want to re-memorize how to get from Point A to Point B.<\/p>\n Again, that’s all on me; the devs are doing what they think is best for the game. Just not my cuppa.<\/p>\n Second, I realized that I was spending a lot of time playing CoH. More than I wanted to be, and at the sacrifice of other things I wanted to be doing. (We’re not talking “City of Heroes almost ruined my marriage” stuff here. I’m talking about other hobbies and pastimes.)<\/p>\n So, I quit. Cold turkey. That was back last fall (I think the Halloween event was going on), and I really haven’t looked back since, except to worry about when my account will be archived and my hero names all backup for sale. And feeling like I should go in and take a final inventory of my created heroes for future storytelling.<\/p>\n We’ll see. Some day.<\/p>\n The Tabletop RPG world has conceded that “RPG” points now to a lot more online games than tabletop ones, so “TTRPG” has become the New Label.<\/p>\n Anyway, I’d been doing a certain amount of that before for a while — and when COVID-19 hit, my main gaming group was already on Roll20 and able to continue on without a hiccup.<\/p>\n Since then, not only has that continued, but I’ve spun into an additional group that, after some earlier play, I’ve started GMing, playing honest-to-God D&D 5e. So there’s that, too. Lots of material to share.<\/p>\nI’ve been doing a lot more TTRPG<\/h3>\n
So what’s up with this blog?<\/h3>\n