Tabletop RPG

January 27, 2019

Original Tales, Borrowed Worlds

A few things have made themselves clear these last couple of months. None more certain than the boat I’m on is taking in too much water. And while three of us are trying to toss the water out, two others are intent on bucketing more in. It’s hard not to feel stressed out about this. Continue reading

Work

Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, Geek and Sundry, Kids on Bikes, LIttle Wizards, Max Brallier, Outbreak: Undead, Tabletop Role Playing Games, Tabletop RPG, The Last Kids on Earth, The Walking Dead, We’re Alive, We’re Alive: Frontier, Zombies
April 2, 2017

Brainstorming

For a moment there, the feeling of being back in college hits me. Books lie strewn upon my bed, each opened to a different chapter but roughly offer me the same ideas. A composition book rests open besides my journal; notes scrawled upon their pages that extend past the margins. Several tabs are opened on Continue reading

Nerd Night

3.5e, 4e, 5e, Complete Divine, Cyberpunk, Duckie, Dungeons and Dragons, Dystopian, Eberron, Maze of the Blue Medusa, Patrick Stuart, Role Playing Games, RPG, Tabletop Role Playing Games, Tabletop RPG, Ultramodern 5, Warhammer 40k, Zak Sabbath
January 20, 2017

“We Have Such Sights to Show You”

Adding new games into game night is difficult to say the least. The past week, I busied myself by reading tremulus by Sean Preston. Never having heard of tremulus before, its selling point wasn’t hard to pinpoint: it’s a storytelling RPG that incorporates Lovecraftian horror. Our main game is Dungeons & Dragons in which Duckie holds the title Continue reading

Doldrums

Book of Malor, Duckie, Dungeon Master, Dungeons and Dragons, H. P. Lovecraft, Keeper, Lovecraft, Lovecraftian Horror, RPG, Sean Preston, Storytelling, Storytelling Games, Tabletop RPG, tremulus
January 10, 2017

The Adventure Thus Far

I don’t pretend to know what the hell I’m doing. I just roll with it. And if the dice comes up to my advantage, so be it. If it doesn’t—I’ll find myself running, leaping, and softly grazing a Dragonborn’s derrière. The swarm of wasps surround us, and my failed leap onto his back causes him to Continue reading

Nerd Night

Armadillidiidae, Bard, Bugs, DM, DnD, Dragonborn, Duckie, Dungeon Master, Dungeons and Dragons, Gnome, Halfing, Halfling, Insects, Storyteller, Tabletop RPG, Wasps
January 1, 2017

Blog Resolutions

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOtJUAeACzF0myYTflMF-WPj6sg9JYoedkgUNo0/?taken-by=ennui_prayer My last post detailed personal hopes and goals for the new year. This post details blog hopes and goals for 2017. And while I know that my blog resolutions (blogolutions?) in the past crashed and burned before they got started, I remain semi-hopeful that this year will be different. As most of you know, Continue reading

Doldrums

Board Games, book, Card Games, DnD, Film, Jeanna, Movies, Music, Shaun, Tabletop RPG, The Book of Malor

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A student of the Mexican American Studies and the Gender & Women Studies graduate programs. I dabble in fiction and poetry writing, book reviews, and commentary. I am a library assistant in the special collections and archives department, where I maintain and preserve our photograph and rare book collections.

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Chapin City Blues is a collection of thoughts, writings, and book/film/music reviews. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are all my own.

Tabletop RPG

Original Tales, Borrowed Worlds

Brainstorming

“We Have Such Sights to Show You”

The Adventure Thus Far

Blog Resolutions