Double miss.
Stayed home, did some work, listened to some twitch streamers playing Minecraft, ate a salad.
Watched (live-action TV): Leverage 5.9: The one where the OT3 foil a terrorist attack. I guess we weren’t as cynical about blowing off the law in the interest of alleged national security in 2012.
Read (manga): She Loves To Cook, and She Loves To Eat vol 5 (Sakaomi Yuzaki): They are still cooking and eating, but also moving in together (despite renting an apartment in Japan apparently being super-obnoxious) and even hugging! Also their friend with the eating disorder finally talked to a professional about it. Go them!
Written (game design): 423:
The problem with reading OSR blogs is then I start wondering if
dungeon-crawling might be fun, actually, and whether resource
constraints and inventory limits might make it more interesting.
D&D doesn’t seem to have dungeon crawling any more, just travel
montages between the set-piece level-appropriate encounters, and
for the most part, the only resources are character abilities (since
of course if you were able to buy resources that meant anything in
combat, you’d be OP for your level). There isn’t even a need to
worry about light, since almost everyone has darkvision and almost
anybody can get infinite light cantrips. Encumbrance is so fiddly that
it usually just gets ignored, too. This is why I want darkvision to not
be on the list of options for PCs, and also slot-based inventory (and
not just because inventory slots can get filled with wounds and fatigue
and maybe curses).
What do we expect PCs to do? (Obviously players can do anything
they want.) I like the idea that being able to spend MP also causes
trouble, the more trouble the more adepts you have and the longer
they stay in one place, so PCs either wander or are based out of a
temple/dojo/fortress that’s warded or remote or both. But what do
they do as they wander around? Or more specifically, since this is
heroic adventure fantasy, what kind of threats do they fight? People
who turned into monsters? 13th Age-style living dungeons and the
things that come out of them? Heretics with wrong magic? Celestials
shirking their afterlife duties in the mortal world? Inexplicable
walking dead? Pre-apocalyptic magic that has curdled over the ages
and now does something only vaguely like supporting a highly-advanced
civilization? Alien invaders? Your mom?
Actually all of those sound fun, alone or in combination. (Renegade
angels from outer space! Heretics worshiping an ancient city spirit so
it builds an ever-growing temple! A PC’s relative who has been consumed
by evil deeds and become a manticore!) Not all of them can be fought
directly, but that’s fine. At least some of them involving going into
sketchy confined areas where the inhabitants hate you, so that’s also
fine.