Alone Against the Flames
Rating: B Length: Approx. 1 hour per playthrough I like Seth Skorkowski's YouTube reviews of adventure modules for AD&D, and I dip into some of his other videos on occasion. He posted one recently about learning new TTRPG systems, in which he mentioned that this adventure as something that could be played by a single person (as opposed to the "DM+1" format that's usually meant by a solo adventure) to help learn Call of Cthulhu. I'd never played Call of Cthulhu before, and a
On the Concept of "Choice"
Having just had a workout and taken a shower, I was eating a snack and rambling to myself (as I am wont to do) when I stumbled across an idea that sounded somewhat profound. Rather than letting it drift off into the ether, I decided to grab hold of it and expand on it here, for your entertainment and/or benefit. Strap in, my friends, for this might get weird. The specific line of thought that crossed my mind was this: The presence of choices does not indicate the presence o
How to Peel a Coconut
I eat coconut chunks on a more or less daily basis. They're great for recharging the body as part of a post-workout snack, they're full of all sorts of nutrients and shit, and they just taste good. Given how often I eat them (not to mention shredding some on occasion to mix in with some cooking), it only makes sense for me to peel them from mature coconuts for myself rather than buying ready packages. The quantity from a single package is about what comes out of a typical
State of the Blog
It's getting close to three months since I started this blog, and I thought this would be a nice chance to step back, see what I've done, and think about where I'm going from here. Besides, I need more posts with the #randombullshit tag to justify its existence, so this'll be like killing two birds with one stone. Recalling my state of mind when I started this whole thing, I really wasn't too sure of where I was going to go with it. I suppose a big part of my motivation was
The False Dichotomy of Plot Presentations
This is an idea that I touched on in my review of The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure, and I got the urge to discuss it further. The basic premise is that there are two primary ways in which a fictional narrative can be presented to the reader. Since I don't have any formal education in non-technical writing beyond basic public schooling, I don't know the proper terms for them, but I refer to them as character-driven plot and event-driven plot. Now, of course, the real driving
