2025.01.25 Back To Adventuring In the Future

So, Amy had to take a break from being the Dorks™ dungeon master due to fatigue, and Dave stepped up to start running us all in an AIF game.

Now, clearly, I have some strong bias going on. But wow is it a fun return.

I've played some AIF with Amy and the kids, which is indeed enjoyable and more suited to my general imagination. But the lower bullshit threshold for running a character in AIF is a welcome and joyful experience. Which is not to say that I don't enjoy playing D&D characters, because I do, but there is a lot more simultaneous railroaded bullshittery to manage in the process. As you're playing along, building capabilities, it's not like you want to turn down various added options, but it really is a lot of mildly-pointless minutiae that you really only get flavour options on. Multiclassing is possible, but only in a limited way as only certain combinations genuinely function well. And any multiclassing also usually means guaranteed missing out on some capstone abilities.

Plus, as a player, getting to use dice pooling again - delightful cinematic elements become more built into the gameplay. Love it.

Anyway, back to my lazy Saturday of reading, watching old TV shows, and filling out citizenship forms.