Thursday, December 16, 2004
The Year of the One-Shot
New Year's resolutions are, I find, generally a waste of time and energy. The last one I made was at the beginning of 2004 when I noticed I was way out of shape and had a slowly enlarging mid-section. What was the resolution? To get more exercise. Guess how well that went. That's right. Since starting to work at my current place of employ, my waist has gone from thirty inches to thirty-three, and I'm ever approaching thirty-four.
So for 2005, fuck excercise up its stupid ass. I'm going to vow to sit on my ass even more than I do now. I'll just try starving myself or something. ;)
But seriously, my resolution this year is one I hope to be able to carry out. I've been playing roleplaying games for eighteen years or so, and over that time, I've spent far too much cash on various games. Most of those games have never been played. Some of them haven't even been read. This year, my goal is to run one-shots of these various games about every other month or so. So let's say my aim is to run six games I own but have never bothered to run and/or play. The list is big, so I'll have to narrow it down.
Certain ones have to make it onto the list, though. My Christmas present to myself, All Flesh Must Be Eaten, is at the top of the list. I'd really like to throw Toon on there, as I've only ever really played Toon via email (and even then, it didn't work out and was short-lived). It Came From The Late, Late, Late Show is one I must vow to run at least once. Ditto that on Kobolds Ate My Baby ... and maybe Ninja Burger. I would very much like to put Wraith: The Oblivion and Mage: The Ascension on there, but I don't think either are going to happen -- and nor would I want to just run them as one-shots.
Ah, the gaming life for me.
So for 2005, fuck excercise up its stupid ass. I'm going to vow to sit on my ass even more than I do now. I'll just try starving myself or something. ;)
But seriously, my resolution this year is one I hope to be able to carry out. I've been playing roleplaying games for eighteen years or so, and over that time, I've spent far too much cash on various games. Most of those games have never been played. Some of them haven't even been read. This year, my goal is to run one-shots of these various games about every other month or so. So let's say my aim is to run six games I own but have never bothered to run and/or play. The list is big, so I'll have to narrow it down.
Certain ones have to make it onto the list, though. My Christmas present to myself, All Flesh Must Be Eaten, is at the top of the list. I'd really like to throw Toon on there, as I've only ever really played Toon via email (and even then, it didn't work out and was short-lived). It Came From The Late, Late, Late Show is one I must vow to run at least once. Ditto that on Kobolds Ate My Baby ... and maybe Ninja Burger. I would very much like to put Wraith: The Oblivion and Mage: The Ascension on there, but I don't think either are going to happen -- and nor would I want to just run them as one-shots.
Ah, the gaming life for me.
// posted by Chris @ 2:36 PM 
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