Wow... so this thing is still on, huh? Feels weird, posting on my RPG Blog again. I honestly didn't really think this site was still publicly viewable, but I guess it's still active. Shocked to see that I somehow got a content strike on my post homebrewing the Vierna race from FFXII for DnD 3.5 that I made in 2010... how'd anyone find that here in 2023??? It's been 13 years. There's been like at least 4 final fantasy games, and a few remakes since have come out since then.
But I digress.
On a personal side, if you're reading this, and you used to follow me from the RPG Blogger Carnival, I guess I should update about my life, since I used to do that once in a while.
In 2015, I moved back to the United States. My marriage ended, fucking me up pretty good, and to top it off, I was pretty much terminally ill (one of the main reasons that the marriage ended as one would have it). I had what ammounts to basically 1 HP and was rolling negative on all my saving throws. There was little hope I would last through the end of the year - doctors gave me about 2 weeks to live in November when I was being processed at a University Hospital in Tokyo.
Fast-forward 8ish years and now I'm pretty much fully recovered. Remission baby. Oooooh yea!
Thank you modern medicine and suck it Japanese doctors. We built tough.
After a few very hectic surgeries where they removed the vast majority of my internal organs (don't worry they put them back again, mostly), several years on experimental meds requiring outrageous hoops to get approved, and a few years of bed rest, I'm basically back on my feet, working *nearly* full-time again too; in what basically ammounts to my childhood dream job - a video game retail store; a pretty famous chain one too (you've definitely heard of it, though it shant be named here lest I summon the HR).
Sadly, I've not had much time, or energy to devote to TTRPG anymore. All of the friends I had that I once played with have long gone and moved onto other things. My circle has vanished. I don't have access to trusty feed reader anymore, so I've not seen much of whats been going on in the RPG community these days either. Every now and then I'll get an update sent to my g-mail, but I've not really paid much attention to the content.
But, it's a relief to find that most of THIS *waves hands* is still here, getting at least a little bit of traffic to some extent.
So now I'm left wondering if this is something maybe I want to come back to, here in the latter half of my thirties. I've been getting sentimental about DnD lately, so maybe it's something I'll want to dip my feet into again. Anyone gonna go see the new movie? I'm hearing pretty good things... also heard something about an update to the OGL??? What's that about??
The one source I do check regularly for hobby related news... well, more like SALE news, is Humble Bundle, specifically their book bundles. They have some really good ones every once in a while for manga [ my newly revitalized obsession since about 2019 ], so I'll stop in there and check to see what they've got going on each month.
Oh, wow! March is pretty loaded.
LINK HERE
Not sure I'll pick this one up unless Henry Cavill's gonna RSVP to be the GM since I'm not versed enough in the lore.
This is some serious classic TTRPG action right here. Troll Lord Games publishes some of the most old-school RPG books I've seen in forever. May go down this nostalgia trip and see where it takes me.
But, not to leave their software bundles out in the cold, Humble also has a great map making software bundle this month too, coinciding with the trio of book bundles. Almost like they planned this...
So, I'm not exaclty sure which of these I'll buy, if I decide to buy any of them. Right now, I've got no group to play with, and don't really see myself having the time to actively search for one, but if one happened to fall into my lap I'm not about to turn them away. But, in the event that one DOES find me, and I find myself falling back into old habits, perhaps I'll be picking one of these up.
If not, you can find me at my new blog, where I write about Anime and Manga!! YAY!
Post Japan I went through major withrdrawls, so now I've devoled into being a complete and utter otaku. All hope is truly lost.
So, If you've made it this far. Why? Why read to the end? Are you nutty? Do you remember me? If this was YouTuber's I'd tell you to like, comment, and subscribe, but instead, I'll just ask you to reply with which of the bundles you think you'd like to pick up, or if you grabbed one already, what made you decide on that one?
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Anyways, may your dice always come up 20's.
-ShinobiCow
