Just what did we do in 2019? A lot. Including radio, video, reading, writing, reviews, playing games, running games, creating games, and conventions. Lots of conventions.

Open game chat on Inspired Unreality tonight at 9:00 Central. Our initial topic will be writing modules. How is it different than writing a story? Just how much needs to be figured out in advance anyway? Three sentences for each NPC? Monsters and Treasure? Maps?

Inspired Unreality is held in the gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord. If you've never been to Tenkar's Tavern we have an invitation for you here.

https://gamerplus.org/index

Now posted on Anchor, the Related To Geeks Podcast about Virtual Gaming.

https://gamerplus.org/newsfeed/2945

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The NEA Game Fest wrapped up yesterday with two interesting events. Sarah, Kier, and Megan gave their personal top 10 board game list discussing each in some detail. Then Kier hosted an online game of Um Actually, a trivia game about all things geek.

So our opening topic for Inspired Unreality tonight will be Online Gaming and Online Conventions. As always we will be in the gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord at 9:00 PM Central. Open game chat, everyone is welcome, all gaming is on topic. If you're new to Tenkar's Tavern Gamer+ has an invitation for you here.

Open game chat tonight on Inspired Unreality. Our opening topic will be NPCs. Just how much agency should the DM give to NPCs? Should they only be minions or more like PCs with the DM acting out their roles? Or should the DM go even further with NPCs solving puzzles that have stymied the party or even fighting their fights for them? I'm more of the have the NPC give a hint every now and then but I am open minded about this. Should the NPC add a bit of color or should they dominate the narrative if necessary in the eyes of the DM? What's your take?

Inspired Unreality open game chat is held in the gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord. 9:00 PM Central every Monday night. If you are new to Tenkar's Tavern we have an invite for you here.

https://gamerplus.org/index

Earlier this year on Inspired Unreality the Related To Geeks Book Club discussed "Armada" by Ernest Cline. Our podcast is now up on anchor. If you are a big fan you will want to leave a comment because neither Megan or I were impressed. Here's the link.

https://gamerplus.org/newsfeed/2943

I've been posting session summaries from our Archive Of The White Mage quest so I thought I would post a session from someone else's game. From Northport here's "OSE play session with the gang 10/17".

https://gwythaintny.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/ose-play-session-with-the-gang-10-17/

Northport is written by Gamer+ gamer Gwythaint.

https://gamerplus.org/user/Gwythaint

I found this session log on the Gamer+ "View Last 60 Items Here" link.

https://gamerfeed.gamerplus.org/public.php?op=rss&id=-4&key=2c0wl25d431f049948f

If you have a blog, podcast, vlog, or just about anything with an RSS feed let me know and I will see that your posts are listed as well. Here's one more link to "Gamer's Homepages". Great gamer content from the footer of Gamer+.

https://gamerplus.org/homepages

Thanks,
Hairy Larry
https://gamerplus.org/user/hairylarry
hairylarry@curators.mixremix.cc (Follow me on the Fediverse)
hairylarry@deltaboogie.com

You have been listening to the Related To Geeks Book Club, recorded May 18, 2020 in the gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord. For more about our geeky family visit relatedtogeeks.com. For more information about the book club go to Gamer+, a social network for gamers, at gamerplus.org.

Megan, Larry, and Vivian discussed "Neuromancer" by William Gibson.

The music for this show is "Mosaic" by Hairy Larry from the NJHB "Stinger" album featuring Chris "Stinger" Stevens on guitar and Cody Ballard on tenor sax.