Hello, one and all, and welcome to Playing Dice With the Universe. This is a blog about fantasy, science fiction, and tabletop roleplaying adventure games—most especially TSR's original D&D game, a.k.a. OD&D.
I created this blog all the way back in 2010, back when I had a very different understanding of tabletop gaming. In my very first post, I also expressed my hope that starting a blog might help me get into the habit of writing frequently. That . . . did not happen.
I desperately want to get back into the habit of writing frequently. Daily, even, if I can manage it—but I'll happily settle for weekly at the outset. And this is indeed the outset: a new beginning. A tabula rasa. I've wiped the slate clean, and now I'm starting fresh. It's a drastic, radical, dire F5.
Or maybe it's more of a Ctrl+Alt+Delete? Whatever. The point is, I'm Etch-A-Sketching the whole mess.
It's time to start writing again. It's time to start writing about adventure games again. It's time to start writing about speculative fiction, something that I had originally intended to do when I first started this blog.
I have hit "reset" on my blog for a very simple reason: the past thirteen years of accumulated posts are not illustrative of any kind of growth. They did not adequately document my journey from a trad gamer to an old-school gamer. They did not, in any clear or understandable fashion, articulate a cogent philosophy or point of view. And any old posts not specifically about tabletop gaming were too few, too sporadic, too purposeless.
It's about purpose. It's about getting back to first principles. Laying down a foundation—and from atop it, building up something sturdy and rational and pleasing.
This post is merely a preface. Playing Dice, day zero. On day one, I shall have to begin at the beginning, to ask and to answer: why tabletop gaming, and wherefore OD&D? ■
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