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My folks, who were in town for the holiday weekend (and Katherine’s birthday), sat in on part of my game on Sunday. And, amazingly, seem to have enjoyed it, or at least found it interesting, or, at a minimum, sufficiently varied to be able to comment politely on it.<\/p>\n

They also commented on how much hard work it seemed to be, which gave me a bit of a tingly feeling inside. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Anyway, it was fun seeing the game from the perspective of non-gamers unfamiliar with it. And now my folks will have some idea of the sort of thing I’m talking about here when I natter on about it.<\/p>\n

To which end, Sunday was also the wrap of our using the D20 Spycraft <\/a>rules for my espionage campaign<\/a>. For D20 fans, some good stuff there, but the ever-burgeoning sim increases and need to buy a never-ending stream of supplements, pen in errata, etc., was getting to be too much. So we’re transitioning to using the FATE <\/a>system, as of next game.<\/p>\n

Which means I still have a lot of work to do<\/a> …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My folks, who were in town for the holiday weekend (and Katherine’s birthday), sat in on part of my game on Sunday. 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