Posts made by Olsson

Been struggling to sleep for a few days now. My final dissertation fell through last year due to the pandemic making my economical situation a bit challenging and since then I've taken as much student debt as I am allowed in my state so that ran out too and since I've already "used" my opportunity for guidance on the disseration I had to write it all without oversight. I've written the thing now will submit it this sunday but my nerves keep playing up.

It felt like quite the failure to not get my exam and teaching lisence as was the plan (something I realise is a pretty common occurance from last year) and I've been beating myself up about it a lot. It's generally made me rather unable to judge the quality of my work so I second guess it a lot. Just a very stressful time with the rest of my year looking very different depending on how it pans out.

I kinda wish we had some more games set outside of the US, personally, but I understand with the demographic why that's not the case.

For whatever reason when I try to connect with DuckClient it automatically breaks the connection when I try to log in. Woe.

Not all models are the same difficulty to paint either. Some can basically be painted with just washes and not have much in the way of detailing at all.

Here's a iron warrior I put together a while back.

Looks like a good start! Quite the challenge you've taken on to do a mainly white colour scheme, notoriously fickle to paint.

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The Gentleman Bastards by Scott Lynch, starting with The Lies of Locke Lamora. The first book is a rather unique take on the fantasy genre, atleast in my experience. The whole book takes place in a single sprawling city and follows a band of criminals trying to live in a expansive criminal underworld. It's a marrying of a fantasy and a mafia story, with revenge at its heart.

I am personally a big fan of stories that keeps it tight and personal. There is no saving the world, no big world shattering mystery as I said the whole book is really just about one city, and about one band of criminals in that city. The cast of character is pretty colourful, with a few of them going against trope and a few with it.

The following books travel around the world hinted at in the first one as we learn more about it, each one has a very central classic story at its heart. One is a heist novel, another a spy thriller filled with political intrigue. The magical elements also increase slowly through the books as the character's view of the world expand beyond the reality they existed in at the start.

Working as a substitute teacher is starting to wear me down a bit. Waking up at 5-6 every work day, only to have to wait for two hours to see if I even get booked anywhere that day sucks. And then having to go to an entierly new place of work more than half the time, new place, new people, new students and try to be some manner of authority in a class where half the time I have been given no or barely any instruction as to what the students are supposed to actually do. I mean I am a glorified babysitter for a gang of kids, but it is hard to keep them in their seats if I can't even give them something to do.

It's nothing terrible or anything, I am just coming up on a year of this and the uncertainty and a lack of consistency in my days, my work and my paycheck. I'm sure some people thrive in this type of waking up everyday having no idea where you will be or what you will do work, but it isn't the long term life for me.

The times I have played non-white characters in WoD games and the like I'll admit I've never really thought of them as wholly different from any white character I have played. But if we're being honest most of my characters are pretty shallow and based around singular concepts of like "Oh, I want to be a warrior poet or a mafia wizard." or some other bullshit rather than anything deeper.

To me the problem of being afraid that you'll play it horribly can only stop you so far. I mean I am sure I play a terrible american period, but since basically all games are set in america I tend to play them. Despite not having any real in depth knowledge of what it is like to grow up over there beyond consuming the entertaiment media since you've got that stuff on lock.

I do realise it is a bit different since questions of race/ethnicity tends to be more sensitive than general culture, but still.

That's actually something he's mentioned. Some guy talked about him needing to do more ads, and he said he was fairly happy with the amount of people he has now and doesn't want to be overwhelmed. Which was a positive to me, shows more awareness than many people I've seen.

Just to give an opposing voice. I've been on the game for a a week or two now and I have had no bad experiences at all. Obie's new as a game runner, and some of the changes to rules maybe aren't wholly thought through but to me that isn't some cardinal sin. Obie's been wholly welcoming to any questions as far as I can see, and has been accommodating to every person I've seen. Taking suggestions freely, asking for opinions on many things.

When I wanted something on my sheet changed he was glad to do it, when people wanted to try STing in the system for the first time he took the time to actually handle all the complicated commands for ST in the scene. Whenever people talk about running stuff he is very encouraging and even asks for tips and tricks to make his own stuff better and has taken every feedback I have given him to heart so far.

I didn't see any of the problems mentioned above so couldn't opine about them but I've seen nothing bad on the side of staff on the game nor from the people.

You get more and more good and less sexualized miniatures of female warriors and the like these days in miniature wargaming which I am enjoying. Painted these two up semi-recently.

But also demons.

Beppe

Also Beppe.

Glad you liked it, here's another conversion.

Was on a bit of a undead/spooky antagonist spree awhile back to prepare for a new game.

Threw this together awhile back from pieces of cork.

Started working on doing kitbashes with my Warhammer, it's quite rewarding when it works as you get access to some more unique looking pieces and gets you working outside the box. Also I am sick of painting blue space marines.

I paint toy soldiers sometimes.

It's fun.

The Deed of Paksenarrion is a very much 80s fantasy book and I adored it a bit for it. It's very much the old age of good vs evil, where there are benevolent and malign forces and it is very cut and dry in that aspect. But that doesn't become -as- much of a thing until later on. It follows a young lady who joins a mercenary company and actually describes that fairly well. I believe people have talked about the author having been a marine and that being part of it.

It's very classic 80s fantasy in a way as said, but sometimes I enjoy getting away from the modern way of it.

Igor on Haunted Memories, was my first forray into MU*ing and Werewolf. An older russian veteran wolf, who travelled to Austria chasing down a Ghost Child who was the focus of his former pack's downfall. Stuck around for a good while, although I did sadly I suppose come in at the end of that game's lifetime.

Warwick on TheReach, Mastigos Mage running from the Chicago mob with a history in counter terrorism in the UK. My attempt at a Silver Ladder politicing sort of guy, was great fun to play but again he came up at the end of TheReach's lifetime.

Bob on TheReach, a Changeling Fairest and my first forray into that sphere. A Prince Charming who kept looking for his princess, but once he finds her he always ends up dissatisfied and kills her. Never intended for him to actually find the one in a PC for obvious reasons. Had a very grandiose persona, seeing the world as a story where he was the protaganist.

Joan Dark on Bump In The Night, didn't play her much but I greatly enjoyed playing Joan when I did. A former US spook who got caught up being a thrall to some vampire in the middle east. Mind broken by vitae addiction and repetetive Dominate usage, escapes and comes back to the states convinced "they" are still following her. Living off the grid, paranoid as fuck and suffering from Vitae withdrawl which she tried to sate with heroin.

Gabriel on Arx, my only attempt at L&L, and I did greatly enjoy playing him most of the time. It was nice to try and play the mature/stoic/strong leadership sort in a setting where that actually had some form of effect, to whatever degree I managed it. Sadly didn't work out in the end as geography is against me in this hobby.