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It was a quiet year on my blog, but I have been busy playing and running tabletop role-playing games (as well as doing other things). It’s time for a small retrospective, as I did last year , and as my friend Florian from rollenspielgblog.net recently did (written in German) . Just some of he TTRPG books I bought. Stats and numbers Most of the games this year took place in person, either with my…
I have mentioned the group I started playing with last year in my previous post . Since the beginning of the year, I’ve had a blast playing around 15 games with the group, and I ran three games myself (two games of Mothership and one of Alien RPG). The group celebrated two years of its existence in April. Yes, there was a party, and yes, there were games. We also published a zine called Every…
A year and a few months ago, I wrote about my personal renaissance of pen and paper games . Long story short, I shared how I returned to the hobby after many years without engaging in it at all and how amazed I am by the abundance of amazing games and adventures available nowadays. Back then, I had been running a Mausritter campaign for two people, exploring solo gaming and tentatively venturing…
I am still into TTRPGs (or PnP if you wish). You can read about how I resurrected this old hobby of mine last year . My two-player real-life group just finished their Mausritter Campaign. I play regularly at several open tables online and even managed to overcome my anxieties and join a couple of real-life games here in Berlin. And I plan to play (and run!) more. All DIY home printed and…
The PCBs have arrived over a week since I wrote the last post . Stáňa the Bat with v0.1 PCB prototypes I soldered together one PCB. It was a quick job. Putting together a QMK firmware and porting my current keymap from Sofle was faster than I anticipated. QMK is truly an awesome project. Adding a new keyboard is almost no work. You can see the commit on my fork of QMK . Assembling the keyboard…
A year and a half ago, I wrote : “I am finally starting to feel the itch to open KiCad, Fusion360, or Inkscape and start designing. We’ll see if the itch stays for long enough to yield a result. I hope it does!”. It didn’t, at least not until now. Stáňa v0.1 I have been a happy user of Sofle V2 for several years. Over time, I had some ideas about what to incorporate in the following design, but I…
The concept of playing TTRPGs alone sounds very odd and very appealing at the same time. This post is about how is my relationship with solo RPGs developing. Playing Ironsworn outdoors. I am a very socially anxious person, therefore playing TTPRPG solo is a very appealing concept for me. However, it does sound weird. Am I going to be sitting at the table, rolling dice and talking to myself? How…
A reader of this blog might have noticed I like to make things. So even my recent obsession - TTRPG games - leans towards making things. Let me share how I made a small Mausritter supplement based on content I created for my Mausritter campaign. The Whites as an A5 zine printed on my home printer I have been running a Mausritter campaign for a party of two people for several months. I have already…
Mausritter is an amazing sword & whiskers tabletop role-playing game. I wrote a bit about how I got to running it recently . In my group, there are two players only. They are not influenced by previous pen-and-paper experience and they are not playing video games so they haven’t created the habit of using in-game violence to resolve situations. One of the players is even very anti-violence because…
Old hobbies An interesting thing that keeps happening to me in the last years, as I am getting older (38 at the time of writing) is that I am returning back to the hobbies I had (or almost had) as a kid or teenager. I have played a bit of Magic The Gathering, I made some models and dioramas , and I have gotten into micro-electronics (which wasn’t truly my childhood hobby but it was part of my…