Coffee swillin' analog gamer

The Fantasy Trip Legacy Edition kickstarter has started shipping. I got mine yesterday! It's a pretty big box (lower left) that shipped in a much bigger box (top). All I can say at this poi...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2019/03/i-got-mine.html

I'll attempt to be coherent, but let's face it: This is where I try to get my thoughts in order before I post them elsewhere. It's about tabletop role playing gaming in general. Some of it is because my main posting site isn't right for some of the games I'll post about.

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-dungeon-dozen.html

For those of you who would be interested but haven't yet heard, there's a new wargaming comic called Solo Napoleon . I like it and am happy to advertise it here, because we need more good stuff...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2014/02/wargamer-comics.html

For the 40th Anniversary of D&D, I played in my regular, twice-monthly AD&D game. We couldn't find the stuff we had that we'd brought into the dungeon (but was taken off of us in a previous Hal...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2014/01/40th-anniversary-of-d.html

Not only am I updating this blog again (well, this once anyway -- we'll see how it goes...), but Fight On! is back as well! I've already flipped through the pdf, and there is a lot of old schoo...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2014/01/at-last.html

For many months I've just been a player, not running anything. It's my default state, really. But every once in awhile I want to run a game. The problem, of course, particularly for me, is tha...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2012/09/schroedingers-game.html

No, that's not a typo; that's a pun. In last night's DCC game on G+, one of the characters had but an awl for a weapon. That was awl I needed to get the awl puns flowing. When he lost the weapo...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2012/06/and-thats-awl-she-wrote.html

Here's one of my all-time favorite Referee/GM advice quotes: "The purpose of a referee is to present obstacles for players to overcome as they go about seeking their goals, not to constantly mak...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2012/03/favorite-quote.html

This is in response to Jeff's post here . It's a d30 table, because I know Jeff likes his d30. Random Mishap Table (for Jeff) Dungeon events, roll hourly: d30 result 01 --- Toe stubbed on lo...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2012/01/random-table-for-jeff.html

Wizards of the Coast announced today that they were working on D&D 5th edition. (Which shows that, while they can't count, at least they're consistent...) Despite having a draft of a playtest do...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2012/01/d-v.html

This is what GI Joe hands looked like when I was a kid: Hope that clears up any lingering confusion.

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2011/12/to-those-of-you-confused-during-last.html

New Monday, new session of the Vats of Mazarin, and Abbador didn't die! I'm so happy I haven't even totalled up my experience to see if I made a level or not. (I may not even be close.) (Just c...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2011/12/abbador-lives.html

Well, I can safely say that my connectivity problems are (for the while at least) done. I just got done with another Vats of Mazarin game on Google+. Abbador died again (we only had 2 pc's at th...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2011/12/vats-of-mazarin-again.html

And even before you have a doubt, run reliable anti-virus and anti-malware software! Finally, after a combination of things (AVG PC Tune Up and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, to be specific), I thin...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2011/12/when-in-doubt-reinstall-part-ii.html

I reinstalled the Google Talk plugin, so it seems that I can participate in hangouts on Google+ again. That's a relief. (My apologies to everybody in Monday's "Vats of Mazarin" game that didn't ...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2011/11/when-in-doubt-reinstall.html

If it's Thursday, it must be Arcadayn's "Conan" game. Better connection all around, this time. My video froze a couple of times, but I didn't get booted and my screen didn't go all screwy (see p...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2011/10/another-thursday-post.html

The game I was in tonight had one man absent, but proceeded pretty well nonetheless. And then, this happened: (Click for full-sized weirdness) I've never seen anything like it. Not sure if i...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2011/09/not-sure-what-happened-here.html

I could have sworn I posted something here last night. But now it's not here. Ah, well. Just letting you know that I'm still here, and I've been gaming both in person and on Google+. Got to tr...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2011/09/what.html

Tried out my new webcam in the Vats of Mazarin game last night. Everybody was happy that they could actually hear me this time, and that I wasn't really the amorphous blob they'd come to know. ...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2011/08/not-amorphous-blob.html

In my AD&D game, we've been trekking through this one tunnel for over a day now (game time). We keep coming across side tunnels, which don't get us to our objective. Tonight, we came to another...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2011/08/generation-gap.html

(It's the punchline to an old joke, in case you were wondering.) What could inspire such a title? Dungeon Crawl Classics , that's what. Finally got to give it a try, again on Google+. I'm r...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2011/08/but-am-i-paranoid-enough.html

Note that this is not the same as "online gaming", by which I mean World of Warcraft and such things. What I'm talking about here is playing a standard analog rpg (in this case, B/X D&D) online. ...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2011/08/gaming-online.html

And now, I also have a gmail account. But you can still reach me at the old, usual places.

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2011/08/i-have-been-assimilated.html

Apparently, Google+ is the latest technology for doing old-school gaming. Or even new-school gaming, if that's what you want. I approve. I haven't tried it yet, but I want to. I want to play so...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2011/08/google.html

WILL took the HARDEST GARY GYGAX QUIZ IN THE WORLD and got 70%! You are a Gary Gygax CHAMPION. If knowledge of the minutiae of Gary Gygax's life translated to political power, you would be the...

http://coffeeanalog.blogspot.com/2011/07/garys-birthday.html