Lady Blackbird & Miro

Categories: Gaming

Finished up that Lady Blackbird campaign I mentioned earlier, which was a blast. I might actually be about done with feeling like I’m a mediocre GM – still had the same tension I always have right before a session, but we got through this one with zero delays on account of my stress levels, which is pretty good for me and I feel great about where our improvisation led us. More to the point, I’m completely sold on Miro. I’d been thinking I needed to do a ton of work to make a Miro board useful, and that I’d need to be messing around with it a lot during play. This is in fact untrue. I just set up an image board for NPCs and dropped a couple of reference images in it (one map, one picture of The Owl), and that was immediately helpful. Later on, I added a couple of rules references. Again, useful immediately without any serious work needed on my part. ...

January 17, 2022 · 1 min · Bryant

Movie Reviews: 1/10/2022 to 1/16/2022

Categories: Reviews

Movies reviewed this week: Saboteur, The French Connection, and Night and the City.

January 16, 2022 · 2 min · Bryant

Movie Reviews: 1/3/2022 to 1/9/2022

Categories: Reviews

Movies reviewed this week: The Young Girls of Rochefort, On the Waterfront, Gimme Shelter, and The Swimmer.

January 9, 2022 · 4 min · Bryant

Movie Reviews: 12/27/2021 to 1/2/2022

Categories: Reviews

Movies reviewed this week: The Day of the Jackal and The Battle of Algiers.

January 2, 2022 · 1 min · Bryant

Actual Play: Lady Blackbird

Categories: Writeups

I’m running a brief Lady Blackbird campaign for S. and some old Boston pals, and it’s going swimmingly. They’re all happy to help drive plot and I’m happy to throw in complications and the game sings pretty well under those conditions. I was curious to see how forgiving the mechanics were; it’s easy to make dice pool mechanics pretty brutal (hi, Blades in the Dark). In this case the huge dice pools and the ease of refreshing them means the characters feel pretty heroic. The players also seem to enjoy the part where you put together dice pools, so that’s all good. ...

December 28, 2021 · 1 min · Bryant

Movie Reviews: 12/20/2021 to 12/26/2021

Categories: Reviews

Movies reviewed this week: Free Guy, To Die For, and Don’t Look Up.

December 26, 2021 · 2 min · Bryant

Movie Reviews: 11/29/2021 to 12/5/2021

Categories: Reviews

Movies reviewed this week: Trouble in Mind.

December 5, 2021 · 1 min · Bryant

Movie Reviews: 11/22/2021 to 11/28/2021

Categories: Reviews

Movies reviewed this week: Once Upon a Time in China II and Once Upon a Time in China III.

November 28, 2021 · 1 min · Bryant

Movie Reviews: 11/15/2021 to 11/21/2021

Categories: Reviews

Movies reviewed this week: Red Notice and Once Upon a Time in China.

November 21, 2021 · 1 min · Bryant

Movie Reviews: 11/8/2021 to 11/14/2021

Categories: Reviews

Movies reviewed this week: Eternals.

November 14, 2021 · 1 min · Bryant