when you go driving could you stick to the limit?

[aphrodite_mine]

Apparently I'm all-in on D&D. We're playing two campaigns (every other week, depending on if Kiddo is home) and J has officially won me over to Critical Role. We watched the Darrington Brigade campaign - I'm logging campaigns as movies, though I may log longer ones as tv series, I'm not sure! I loved it. It is all so silly and earnest and fun and accomplished feeling. 

I'm also re-reading Kushiel's Dart, picking up an in-progress from... three or four years ago. By gum, I'm going to complete it. But HOLY cats these books aged badly. By which I mean... everything. The idea that a fantasy overlay of Europe just isn't a great political idea let alone literally everything about Phedre. The book works so hard to separate consensual(ish) non-consent from "real" rape but both sides end up meaning very little when the protagonist experiences a degree of sexual pleasure from either! WHAT. Also, I'd repressed that Dart really does push hard at a love triangle situation. The race stuff is... truly gnarly. I'm sure someone else has written about all of this with more eloquence than me. 

... oh no. The books are currently being re-released. 

I'd prefer not to have a big meta discussion here. If things get heated, I'll lock this post. I'm not online enough to engage the discourse. 

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

Yeah, I tried to read Kushiel's Dart and didnt get very far. I really wanted to like it.

[aphrodite_mine]

Truly disappointing.

[summerstorm]

D&D!!! Yes. I'm currently playing, er, four campaigns at once? Five? Five, though one is kind of unreliable and only an hour a week if it does happen (it's a one-on-one thing with one of my best friends). And occasionally picking up one-shots. I really lost my mind when Ciri was missing and here we are now. Not complaining though.

The Darrington Brigade one-shot was so fun! Are you going to be watching any of the longer campaigns? I'm behind on the current one but I watched all of the Mighty Nein and I loved it, though it took me a whole year even watching at 1.75x speed, lol. The Search for Grog one-shot is really fun, and Bar Room Blitz is awesome as well. They did a Monsterhearts one too a while back, I think it was called Cinderbrush, with Ally Beardsley from Dropout/Dimension 20/previously CollegeHumor. D20 is what got me into this in 2019 via Fantasy High and remains my fave. Matt Mercer actually DM'd the six-episode campaign Dropout is currently releasing.

[aphrodite_mine]

We're about to start a third campaign for the summer since kiddos will all be in and out of town. The new one is in spaaaaace and I'm playing an adorable minotaur.

I think we're going to watch Calamity from CR next and Liz is watching the new one from Dimension 20. I'm REALLY excited about the new CR one-shot within their new thing... um. The one in Victorian England? I'm blanking on the name.