Although I have a blog on my Myspace page, game-related ramblings seem to fall on deaf ears over there. Thank God for this site, where one can pontificate, ramble, blather, chest-thump, reminisce, and people KNOW what I'm talking about, as opposed to looking at me as if I had just given birth to a demon-possessed Care Bear through my nose. At least here, game-related rants are appreciated and understood, even if not necessarily agreed with.
So I took a look around here and said to myself, "Self?" and Self said "What the heck do YOU want?!" And I said, "Well if you're going to be that way, fuggedaboutit." And Self said "We'll see about that! Have at you!"
After a few minutes, I had succeeded in beating myself up.
After the wounds were treated and peace was made, the original point was, yes, I think I need to start up a blog here. Personally, I can't think of a better forum to do the electronic equivalent of opening up a window and shouting out at the street, and have it be about gaming things.
So...why "curmudgeon"? Well, as a rule, a curmudgeon is usually some cranky old man who sits on this porch and shoos kids off his lawn... as opposed to the Old Days, where the old man would sit on his porch and SHOOT kids off his lawn. Anyways, since I've been at this gaming thing since 1978, and real-life age-wise I'm in the last year of my 40's, what the heck. Curmudgeon, it is!
What can you expect to find here? Opinionated stuff, mixed with humor, I hope. And war stories. And more opinions. And reasons why things were better "back in the day". And a few more war stories. The advantage of THESE curmudgeonly ramblings, however, is that, unlike REAL rambling curmudgeons, I won't stop in mid-rant, stare off into space for ten minutes, yell out "PIES!!!", and wet myself.
In fact, here's a list of topics you can expect to see covered here:
1. Taking 2 hours to role-play buying things in a market is resoundingly boring.
2. Recipe for creating the ideal DM
3. D&D 4.0 will be the festering nasty boil on the nose of RP gaming.
4. Scary gamers
5. Our hobby is doomed. DOOMED!
6. Why running a long-term Cthulhu campaign is not only possible, but a LOT of fun!
7. Why must gamers treat rule misinterpretations as a Life Crisis?
8. Cross-gender roleplaying....it creeps me out.
9. Confessions of a veteran gaming freelancer.
OK, that'll do for now. There's a few more things I want to cover as well, but frankly, I can't remember them.
So, if you feel so inclined, swing on by. You'll find stuff you agree with, stuff you emphatically disagree with, but hopefully no matter what, you'll find it not boring in the least, and in fact, rather funny.
