June is almost over, how?

[oanja]

Had my last day at the current job and I think I managed to tie off most of the things that were unfinished. Now I need to get to packing up my stuff quite seriously, the moving company is coming on Tuesday and mom is coming on Sunday to help me out. She's going to stay with me in the new apartment for a few days afterwards, so that should be nice (unless she insists I need to unpack everything instantly)

Then I'll have July off and start the new job in August.

Tumblr is still like 80% Good Omens content and I'm slowly getting bored of it. There really is only so many ways in which you can gif 20 or so scenes :'D I never really read fic for this pairing when it was just the book and I still don't really care to. I might if there was like an epic slow burn pining fic, but other than that, I'm happy with just these canon things we have now.

I've already packed all my books (I always start there because books are easy to pack and also important things must be packed first), otherwise I might be tempted to read the book again. (My book reading challenge for myself is going terribly, I still haven't read anything... Maybe I can finally get something read when I'm on vacation *fingers crossed*)

I started playing the new Harry Potter mobile game (from Niantic who made Pokemon Go) and I like it, there's a lot more to do than there is in Pokemon go. Only thing they need to do is fix the bug that stops me from looking at my profile. If I open that the game crashes every time :D I wish they had something you could send your friends like you can in Pokemon go, I miss that part. My code is 8488 8838 5140 if you are playing and want more friends.

I joined a third D&D game... (I might have a problem) and finally got to play wizard. The magic user is always my favourite in rpg's so I've been dying to get to play one. We just got to level too last night and so far I've enjoyed it a lot! I made a faction agent so my investigation is high and an important part of the character (we're trying to solve crime right now).

In the first game that I ever joined my Paladin is still level 4. The DM seems eager to make us wait longer and longer to level up, which I'm starting to resent. He also likes to make things "more realistic" ie carry capacity and we've yet to find any treasure, also he insists that the world exists out of our characters so basically any encounter could be deadly for us, and many have been super dangerous (someone drops to 0 hitpoints at least once a game) and I don't like that either. I think the problem I have with this type of game is that we never really get to feel like heroes, we're always scrabbling on with out fingernails, lucky to survive or to escape with our lives. Like last session he had a tomb guardian skeleton that had multi attack (4 attacks as the skeleton had 4 arms for some reason). The thing hit me 3 times (missed once) and I had 1 hitpoint left. Okay I heal myself, then things happen and we aggro it again and it one shots me in two hits (with 2 crits) and I'm the tank of my party mind with 17 AC, it almost does enough damage to kill me outright (doing almost double damage over my hitpoint max) and then I guess because the DM realised he'd made the monster too powerful he decided not to try land the two more attacks that the fucking thing had, which made me even more mad (also this happened to the rogue too, got hit to 0 and then the monster turned away, because "it felt like we were of no concern anymore") and okay I'd rather not die thanks (I really want to get to lvl5 when I get all sorts of cool stuff) but at the same time, why does the DM make the enemies so hard???? We're doing a quest he gave us, so it's not like we're not supposed to be here???

Okay rant over

Comments

[opusculasedfera]

I'm sorry your one D&D game is going annoyingly! I miss playing and I'd love to get back into it, but I've lost touch over the years with all the friends I used to play with and none of my geographically close friends are interested right now. (I make up for it by listening to a truly silly number of actual-play podcasts, oops.)

Good luck with packing and moving!

[oanja]

haha, it's not really his fault, I think he did warn us about what type of game he wanted to play, but as it was the first D&D game I ever played I didn't really know what I was getting into :') but I will be rather annoyed if we don't finally level up next time we play...

Have you looked at roll20? It's a website where people can host games online and people usually just play over voice chat. That's where I found all my games. I'm also planning on DM'ing a game on that platform later this summer if you were interested? (It would obviously depend on the time difference/day if you could make it work for you or not.)

I only follow Critical role right now. I used to listed to the Adventure zone, but when they switched out of D&D I kind of lost interest. What podcasts do you follow?

Thank you, it's a pain in the butt but I'm getting pretty used to it...

[opusculasedfera]

It's so hard to tell what people's game styles are like when you don't know them well!

I've heard of roll20, but I've been a bit nervous to try with strangers because I'm awfully shy! Have you had a good experience with it? I'd love to try your game if we can make the timing work. The timezones might be tricky, but I do have a pretty flexible schedule.

I'm so, so behind on Critical Role that it's actually ridiculous, but I'm slowly working my way through it. TAZ: Amnesty is improving as it goes on, I think, but it is totally different for sure. I also listen to Campaign, which is a Star Wars game that's really funny (or, it used to be SW, I think they pulled a TAZ and changed systems after their first campaign, but I'm still only partway through the Star Wars story), and One Shot by the same people tries out lots of different games in single sessions, though I find that's a little more hit or miss for me. Jem Jammer is a weird D&D mix of fantasy and space opera, and it's also really funny. They just did a crossover with Cool Kids Table, so I've started listening to that one too, though I'm not really far enough in to have opinions yet. No Dice is cute, but on indefinite hiatus right now. I just started listening to Pretend Wizards so I'm not sure how I feel about it yet, but it was recced to me glowingly and it's fun so far. I've also abandoned a lot more because I got bored...

...I did say it was a lot of shows. But I listen to podcasts when I'm doing other things so I listen to a lot of them in general.

[oanja]

(sorry it took me ages to reply, I was moving when you commented and then I sort of forgot for a bit, I'm so bad with comments unless I reply right away)

Yep it's definitely a challenge, but also a learning opportunity I've found :D It's really cool how many ways people can play the same game.

I've had really good luck with it so far, so I can definitely recommend it. All the people I've played with have seemed really nice and there haven't been any issues.

I'd love to play with you, I was thinking that the game would most likely be on either Tuesday (it would be early afternoon for you, which might not work if you work office hours, or Saturday around the same time) Do you know anyone else who might be interested in playing, like your gf/partner? I will most likely run one of the official D&D modules, as my own homebrew world is not ready yet. Do you have any preference. (I already own Waterdeep Dragonheist)

Ooh thank you for the recs, I will add them to my list of things to try ^_^

[opusculasedfera]

No worries, moving is the worst!

I'll have to look into it then! I really do want to get back into playing.

I can do either Tuesday or Saturday most weeks! I work from home so I can kind of set my own hours if I have some advance notice. Not sure if the gf would be interested, but I can ask her/ask around! I haven't played D&D since 3.5 tbh, so all of the modules would be new to me. You can pick whatever you want to run! :D

[oanja]

I made a post about the game on my journal just now, in case I know someone else who would be interested in joining. I think 4 people is pretty ideal for a party, so we wouldn't need that many people to join. If nobody you know wants to play and the same happens with the DW post I'll make a post on roll20

I own two modules: Waterdeep dragonheist is an urban campaign and the Lost mines is more traditional (and it comes with the starter set and I've heard it's really good for new players)

[emyrys]

I'm not really good at tagging on tumblr, but I've been tagging all of my good omens post (as, wait for it...."good omens") cause I figure there are going to people who get sick of it all and I want to make it easy for people to block those posts. And I totally understand why you are getting tired of them!

Luckily, just as I thought I was getting sick of seeing the same ones keep passing by, a bunch of fun meta started moving through my dash.

This pairing isn't something I am interested in reading, either (although I am enjoying the occasional snippet that passes). I am, however, enjoyed the heck out of the first several vids (although, as you say, there's only so many clips available to use) and seeing such overwhelming love for these guys exploding all over everyone's dash is still making me smile).

It reminds me of the heady days of peak SGA fandom (aka the fandom that ate all other fandoms).

Bucky still remains my #1 fannish crush, and I am still devouring bucky-centric fic pretty much 24/7, but I have to admit that I am actually a little tired of the bucky gifsets that are available cause I've seen them so many times after all these years. Which makes me sad.

(but then a startingly beautiful picture of him goes past my dash & I'm like, ok. Hi. )

[oanja]

It's not that bad for me and I don't use tag blocking myself. I just scroll past most photo sets now without stopping - as opposed to when the show had just come out and I looked at every one :D There is fun meta and not!fic posted and I still read those, just like you said. The fandom is already evolving and moving on to different aspects of the canon material.

I definitely agree that it's really nice to see people just honestly enjoy the source material and enjoy and love these characters. I remember reading this book in my late teens and really loving it to bits, so it's nice to see new people fall in love with it now. <3

haha that's so funny about Bucky. He's never really been a *thing* I feel super fannish about, but I can appreciate a long lasting fannish crush. (I think a part of it is that I was a big Tony/Steve shipper and when winter soldier came out the whole fandom swinging to Steve/Bucky took me by surprise and I felt a bit resentful for a while there... ^_^;)

[lilymaid]

I'm still too wrapped up in PoGo to play another game. Is Finland as plagued with Mr. Mimes as the rest of Europe supposedly is, per the persistent whiners on Reddit?

[oanja]

(sorry it took me ages to reply, I suck)

I like the wizard game more than pogo right now because there's more stuff to do in it, but pogo is definitely the classic :D There are Mr Mimes around too often for my taste (they are so creepy!) but it's not like it's the most common pokemon by a mile

[lilymaid]

They've finally got rid of our Tauros invasion, too (after the regionals event last year) but we're short on the other regionals we get here (Illumise and Seviper, and I wish I'd see more of the former because I've never managed to get one with decent IVs yet.)

You don't suck! You're busy!