BashCon 2018 came and went this past weekend. It was pretty low on the BashCon organizational cycle (which exists because no one on staff ever has more than three years of experience). The facility is still wonderful in any case, and I usually spend my time hanging out with people I already knew, anyway. I managed to get in two RPG games (one of which ran two sessions) and two board games, which may be some kind of record for me. Continue reading
Category: Gaming (Page 2 of 7)
I have invested (wasted?) a great deal of my life in role playing games, though I have spent the vast majority of that time playing WITH the games rather than actually playing them. I have recently had occasion to re-examine the old D&D concept of alignment, and have come to some conclusions that I find interesting. Continue reading
I have been aware, pretty much from the time I knew what “Standard Distribution” was, that dice don’t quite fit the curve. This is apparently because die rolls are so strongly quantized. I have long suspected that, as the number of dice rolled increases, the shape of the result curve gets squarer and squarer. Over the last week or two, in the spirit of “looking busy when I should really being doing something else”, I have done some actual research. Continue reading