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Sun Nov 11 18:15:16 EST 2018
Slept from twelve-thirty to seven — not well, but better than last night.
Mostly sunny, but cold enough that the hotel's fountain has a partial skin of ice.
Last day of U-Con.
Ed went home this morning, skipping his last couple sessions.
9–11 AM: Swords & Wizardry, "Return to Nature", GM David Perrin.
Three kids playing (two boys and a girl) and three men.
A simple, get courier mission from NPC, travel, fight some goblins, collect widget, fight drow, deliver widget scenario.
Nothing particularly interesting about this session, but nothing particularly terrible.
Read a little of the Bob Woodward book between sessions.
Also took a thirty-minute walk.
Looked at the golf course and lake.
2–5 PM: Cats of Cthulhu, "The White Stag", GM Gabriel Carlson
GM had played with me in Friday's Blueholme session.
Four men and three women playing.
Signed up for this session as a second choice, thinking it _might_ be fun, and it was a lot of fun.
All the player characters are more-or-less mundane (but intelligent) cats.
I imagine this game doesn't work well for a group not willing to commit to the premise.
A few interesting mechanics in this simple, fast-playing system:
- roll _N_ dice and try to get _N_ number of yes/no successes
- easy action as one success, normal actions need two, and hard/dire need three
- normally, roll two dice to decide action outcomes
- PC's have one of several classes (e.g., studies humans, scrapper, acrobat). If the rolls falls within your bailiwick, that gives one automatic success.
- Cats have nine lives. They can "spend" a life to re-do a roll or add a die to a roll.
Got home from U-Con around six.
I almost backed-out on Friday, but I'm glad I went.
Much more fun than I expected.
I'll go again next year.
Watched some Netflix.
Catalogues from the Hirayama Fireworks company, early 1900s:
http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/stand-well-back
http://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/kyoiku/library/digitalarchive/hirayama.html
Breakfast: banana, tomato, bread with peanut butter, coffee
Lunch: coffee, pulled pork sandwich, orange
Dinner: pizza
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