idk just gotta put my thoughts somewhere...
I was having a bad day, and couldn’t run Ironsworn. Instead we played WABW, which I had found after watching A.A. Voigt's video essay about it . It was really nice to play. Not a lot of games are so clear in their intentions and deliver on that. After playing the game for a few minutes, I felt a lot better. It was also nice to hang with my friends while I was having a minor crisis.
In my quixotic quest to find or make the perfect elfgame for me and my table, I spent the last few years reading books and blogs and hewing and hawing about playing games but not really running them. I finally put together a semi-regular open table with some long-time friends from our pandemic 5e game. My explicit intention was to try a variety of new TTRPG systems to get an idea of what kind of…