Playing Catch-up

I haven't been posting a lot lately, in part because of work stresses and in part because I'm getting distracted by politics (which I generally try to avoid on my LJ, trying to keep it games related). I will be posting more in the next few days to catch up on a few things.

But I did want to share this: Ta-Nehisi Coates has just started blogging for the Atlantic (Taking the place of Matt Yglaseas, who I quite liked for his referencing X-Men when he learned that the DNC had a committee pushing the Phoenix Initiative: "do we really want to risk a war with the Sh'iar?"). Amongst the politics and sports he's also blogging about his decision to teach his 8 year old how to play D&D. There's also a musings on Black Nerd culture that I found interesting. But the shot of his son old at the gaming table with the old school AD&D module covers making an ad-hoc GM screen is just precious.

Blood on my Hands

I killed a Player Character earlier this month - John's Transformed Rat "Han" in the last session fo the House of the Dragon game. That marks my first PC death since ladegard  's Ork Elementalist died in The Wonders of the Northern Woods back in 2000. Previous to that the last PC death was panzerschrek  's Diviner in the Shandamir War back in 1991. That means either a) I kill a PC once every 8.5 years of b) the interval between PC deaths is shrinking at 1 year per iteration. That means I'll be an absolute TPK GM when I turn 65.

( Morbid fascination behind the cut )