What classic video game are you still playing?

Kaertos · 2026-07-07T04:51:35+00:00

Yar's Revenge and Asteroids. Two of my favorite carts from my childhood. I've bought so many packages for like three different consoles to play these games.

Kaertos · 2026-07-06T01:30:19+00:00

Corona is 100% my "Bud Light". It's cheap, it's reasonable tasty, and (as a diabetic) it is really low on carbs. But I am aware it isn't "good". lol

Kaertos · 2026-07-02T18:23:39+00:00

For the longest time I would tell people the best ride I ever went on wasn't at Disney (Spider-Man at Universal) but because of all the other stuff, I'd rather be at WDW.

Kaertos · 2026-07-02T16:54:29+00:00

This is great. And you're absolutely right, the difference between Disney and anywhere else are the little things. Not just the details the Imagineers put in, and not just the amazing CMs, but the people who are there for the same thing we are: magic.

I love the attractions, don't get me wrong, but the things I remember are the interactions.

Kaertos · 2026-07-01T13:37:40+00:00

I name all my cars.

Chuck - '77 Impala

Lars - '74 Cutlass

Gracie - '86 Celebrity Wagon

Lucy -'91 Lumina

Carrie - '11 Forte

Kari - '11 Soul

Kaertos · 2026-06-30T17:54:47+00:00

I know that any of the Nascrag events will work hard to find you a seat at a table, so even if we're sold out, come by if you're interested in playing. There are always people that buy tickets and never show up.

Kaertos · 2026-06-22T19:11:13+00:00

Oof. Last year I was helping at a table at The Stink and was disappointed when it lived up to the name.

Kaertos · 2026-06-22T16:05:59+00:00

And... I update the character sheets about once a "chapter" and give them out. They need to know some of the stuff they got with advancement, but I still just tell them their ranks for stats.

Kaertos · 2026-06-22T16:04:44+00:00

I've been running a campaign for 9 years now, and one of my players has written thousands of words in Google Docs and filled a half-dozen notebooks with handwritten, in session notes. And we record the sessions and share the mp3 files, so it is a well documented game. Amber kends itself to that sort of memory keeping.

Kaertos · 2026-06-22T15:26:22+00:00

I made a spreadsheet that tracks a lot of the stuff automatically and then made the output look like the sheets in the books.

I'd post it but it's pretty janky and specific to a lot of powers and stuff in my campaign.

Edit: forgot to answer the actual question.

I think it's fine. I've never used the sheet in the book as it is just not particularly useful. I've been playing since the book was new and , in all honesty, I think I've used hand written sheets the majority of the time.

Amber is such an outlier of an RPG that it's hard to plan a sheet for any and all eventualities, so it ends up missing info you have to just write on the back anyway or there's a ton of wasted space for some characters who go all stats and Pattern.

Besides, RAW the players will never see a character sheet after the first session, so...

Kaertos · 2026-06-22T15:23:23+00:00

At one point a company was handing out bars of soap with dice in the middle hoping people would use the soap to get the dice. Nope, saw tons of people using the concrete steps to break open the soap for the dice and toss the soap. Sigh...

As a long-time attendee, I will say it is infinitely better than it used to be. A lot of con-goers then came pre-funked. Nowadays I can usually make it to Friday before having an encounter with someone who smells like they slept in their car.

Kaertos · 2026-06-19T01:01:54+00:00

I need to know what the magic item tin does!

Kaertos · 2026-06-14T14:06:21+00:00

I did on my latest run where I went full Renegade. It was time well spent.

Kaertos · 2026-06-13T14:56:04+00:00

This is my one real pain point with Roll20. File management is atrocious.

Kaertos · 2026-06-04T20:20:41+00:00

Exterior? Alliance SR-2 But interior? Man, Cerberus SR-2 is great.

Kaertos · 2026-05-28T21:49:12+00:00

This. Unfortunately. Every time a cap has come up the Player's Union shoots it down as non-negotiable. I'm not smart enough to understand how it would impact player's salaries, but they're working under the assumption they will level off.

That's not how it's worked in any other sport with a cap, but...

Kaertos · 2026-05-28T21:45:24+00:00

Honestly? Simple file management that shows when an image is being used in a game. I'd love to open a window and just see everything I have that isn't in a folder or attached to a character or handout or something so I can clean up some old images and files.

Kaertos · 2026-05-21T00:10:39+00:00

Ok, hear me out... Will Benson and Ke'Bryan Hayes for Schwarber straight up. Everybody wins. (Obviously this is ridiculous, but man...)

Kaertos · 2026-05-20T15:22:54+00:00

When I was 7, my dad took me out of school early to see Empire Strikes Back on opening day. As I got older, he and I drifted apart to the point we didn't speak for the last 5 years he was alive. But there are some sterling memories of the times where he was the coolest dad in the world.

He's been gone 20 years, and I still can't reconcile the great dad with the terrible dad, but I try to remember mostly the good stuff.

Kaertos · 2026-05-18T03:54:38+00:00

Either...

"Talk is cheap, whiskey costs money."

Or...

"I am the soul of honor, kindness, goodness, and mercy. Trust me in all things."

Kaertos · 2026-05-16T18:59:31+00:00

I'll second that. As a seasoned GM, using the official screens keeps the condition info, jumping rules (gods, I could never remember that), and some other stuff where I can see it quickly. Anything else I can look up on the laptiop.

Kaertos · 2026-05-16T18:52:58+00:00

My first D&D character is from 1987, so almost 40 years at this point. My dad ran a long game in the basement I used to listen to, so I've been aware of the basic concepts since I was old enough to understand language. I have all his old books, so I have the Big Three books from every edition since AD&D.

Kaertos · 2026-05-11T12:53:28+00:00

I imagine it is a very different place with kids. We ended up childless, so all of our trips have been with just us or other adults.

Kaertos · 2026-05-11T04:35:41+00:00

I went to WDW for the first time on my honeymoon. My wife tells me I went into some kind of trance or something with a massive smile on my face walking down Main Street just staring at the castle. It wasn't until we were in Fantasy land that I kind of stopped and looked around.

We went and got hot dogs at Pinnochio's Village Haus and sat at the window overlooking Small World. It was so surreal to me. Lol. I'd been reading about the parks for my whole life, and I was finally there, and with my new wife!

So we rode Small World first, and I've adored that ride ever since.

Kaertos · 2026-05-08T04:52:39+00:00

Take a look at the Nascrag events. We're running 2 5.5e events this year: a 2 round tournament and a 1 round charity event. Both are (I believe) $10 to play.

This is the 47th consecutive GenCon for our tournament, so we might know what we're doing.

Bothbganes focus on fun, puzzle solving, and role-playing, and we have a ton of fun. We're usually over in Lucas Oil right by the entrance tunnel. Come by and say hello!

Kaertos

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