Week 274: Potatoes

I can eat potatoes again! It’s my birthday and I can’t have cake so I’m eating my weight in chips. Chips for every meal: the dream. This isn’t how I pictured turning 38 but here we are. I’ll be sure to let you know if these potatoes make me shit myself or half my scalp falls off.

I ran the first D&D session of a three parter that will likely turn into a campaign. Oh my god it was exhausting but a lot of fun. We didn’t quite make it to the first combat but all the players were really great at the role play bit and introducing their characters. I felt pretty wired afterwards and I’ve been making map/world tweaks to fit their ideas in.

I found my first use of an LLM that I’m not immediately angry with, automated note-taking from Gemini was actually pretty good at putting together a session overview (obvs still with a few tweaks needed). The full transcript is absolute garbage but the bones was there, D&D session notes don’t need to be accurate unlike many of the things people use this junk for.

We met a new cat sitter, the lads warmed to her very quickly so I feel fine going away to Germany in Feb 👍

I have more D&D in the near future, session two of my own game and I’m going to a drop-in session (as a player) at Arcadia Games with Luke this coming week. Fun! Some new dice arrived and I’m going to stop buying more now.

We’re spinning the wheels in Blue Prince at the moment, lots of dud runs where we don’t learn anything new. We’ve found 5 [redacted] but are strugging to work out what all the [redacted] are so we’re trawling through notes and books from across the estate again.