{"id":2314,"date":"2020-05-08T10:28:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T09:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/?p=2314"},"modified":"2021-02-07T18:31:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T17:31:44","slug":"lockdown-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/2020\/05\/08\/lockdown-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" title=\"Well hello again.\" src=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/avatars\/coloreye2.jpg\" alt=\"avatar\">Oh&#8230;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been a while, hasn&#8217;t it? I have been very bad at updating here, mostly because much of what I used to talk about has been overtaken by life. I don&#8217;t get out on my bike so much since we adopted a husky; our intent had been to do <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cani-fit.com\/walk-before-you-bikejor\/\" target=\"_blank\">bikjoring<\/a>, but we never got past the walking stage with her. She has her own views on whether to take direction or not, which is what happens when you bring into your life a 5.5 year old dog that has had 4 previous owners. She still needs 3 hours of exercise a day, though, and couple that with moving out of town and discovering the bike\/public transport links aren&#8217;t as accessible as we&#8217;d thought when deciding where to live, it became necessary to rethink extra-curricular activities<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20180101_191715_RichtoneHDR-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20180101_191715_RichtoneHDR-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"a husky sleeping in a doorway\" class=\"wp-image-2315\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20180101_191715_RichtoneHDR-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20180101_191715_RichtoneHDR-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20180101_191715_RichtoneHDR-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20180101_191715_RichtoneHDR-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20180101_191715_RichtoneHDR-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The Floof<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then 2020 turned into a dumpster fire of plague, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/52533585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">murder hornets<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/23\/tornadoes-us-south-texas-louisiana-oklahoma-mississippi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">extreme<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/apr\/10\/high-winds-kill-thousands-of-migrating-birds-in-disaster-over-greece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">weather<\/a>, and I don&#8217;t know what else. We&#8217;re just riding out the storm, grateful to be living in a rural location with a garden, missing our friends, worried for our families and nearest and dearest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an extreme introvert (one of the reasons we moved out of town in the first place), I&#8217;m not missing the daily commute or the being in the office. We&#8217;re both working from home, and have decent broadband. In fact, I&#8217;m socialising more now than I did before, as technology races to provide us with the human interaction that we&#8217;re missing in lockdown. Our work gaming group has moved online, and I&#8217;m playing one TTRPG while GMing another. I hadn&#8217;t played RPGs in about 20 years until WorldCon in Dublin last year, and I&#8217;m enjoying the hell out of them in a way I didn&#8217;t back then. I am sure this is because the focus of the games I&#8217;ve played since getting back into it has been less on dice rolling and dungeon crawling, and more on collaborative storytelling. Also, I have remembered how much I enjoy coming up with stories that are basically reactive improv. (I&#8217;d put a link to the <em>Chronicles of the Cakestop<\/em> here, but I no longer have them online.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of which is to say, hello! I&#8217;m back. When we&#8217;re allowed out more than once a day, I intend to do more cycling and running (<a href=\"https:\/\/zombiesrungame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">away from zombies<\/a>). In the meantime, expect less triathlon and more floof, less bike natter and more wittering about gaming, but probably about the same amount of foodie stuff, because what other comfort do we have right now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For writing, check out <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/ravenbait.com\" target=\"_blank\">ravenbait.com<\/a>, although I&#8217;ve been pretty lax over there of late, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/floofsnow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/floofsnow.jpg\" alt=\"A husky and the author lying in the snow\" class=\"wp-image-2316\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/floofsnow.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/floofsnow-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/floofsnow-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Looking forward to future adventures<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,92],"tags":[8,162,157,161,163],"class_list":["post-2314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-planet-sam","tag-distraction","tag-floof","tag-games","tag-life","tag-zombiesrun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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