Blog (hopefully) not dead yet

      It's been a while since I last updated the blog. I have been gaming, just not posting. Here is a brief note to hopefully get me back into the swing of things.

Soaring Phoenix: The weekly online DFRPG/GURPS Dungeon Fantasy game via Discord and MapTool has been continuing (with a few interruptions) mostly every week. There have been 9 sessions since I last posted, and we are now as of Tuesday this week up to session 118 of the campaign. I will try to post a catch-up summary soon so that the readership of this blog (those few who aren't also my players, anyway) know what has happened.

Traveller PbP: I have started an online play-by-post GURPS Traveller game via Discord. The campaign is starting at year 1115 of the GURPS Traveller timeline. We are using mostly GURPS 4e rules (character creation and task resolution) so GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars serves as a guide for that, but we are using the GURPS 3e Traveller books for the setting material (and probably the ship/combat mechanics) as most of the material was published for that. So it's a bit of a mash and I've had some work trying to reconcile discrepancies between the implementations, which were not really meant to be compatible. We are in the early stages of that (chargen should be finalised; just running a couple mock combats) but of course the pace is going to be slower. Discord may not be the best platform, but it's convenient and I think it will work for our purposes. We shall see how it goes.

Retreat in GURPS: I dislike how the Retreat works in GURPS/DFRPG, and we have been playing for the last with a modified version (basically keeping the standard mechanics in terms of bonuses and when/how it can be used, but omitting the tactical movement part. While I feel that has mostly worked, it is not without its own issues. I have recently come up with a new alternative, which I have yet to test with my group. I should do a post about that sometime soon.

Elite Dangerous: On the non-RP gaming side, I have recently gotten back into ED in a big way, since the latest updated which introduces the system colonisation gameplay. I have spent far too many hours on that lately, and it is definitely a contributory factor for my absence from the blog (that and the new PbP). Still it's been fun so that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.