Random Average

I tell you, I don’t know why I bother prepping.
Last night was the only Wednesday in February where I could wrangle the Diaspora participants into the same location at the same time (which is an improvement; it had originally looked as though it would be April before we could play with the Cluster and characters [...]

Tim challenges me.
First, he never lets me coast during our games: not as a GM, certainly, but neither as – more simply – a roleplayer. I consider that a good thing.
Second, he challenges me on my choices. I’m not saying he busts my balls over every single thing I do in a game, but he [...]

Exactly one year after our first gathering, the Wednesday night group got together for our first session of the new year, and we decided to get started in 2010 with Diaspora, the world’s softest hard sci-fi game.
Counting myself, there were four players, and we opted to each create two worlds in “the cluster” (a series [...]