Blog Update

I still exist, I swear.

I haven't updated at all this year due to four major reasons.

- COVID Year. Nuff said, really. It's completely messed with my ability to concentrate. I also mostly read blogs at work, so working from home has resulted in me not following the blogs at all.

- Lack of Games. Until recently, I haven't been running anything, in large part due to the OSR turning out to more or less be incompatible with my main group, who are happy to play Fifth Edition D&D, and that's fine, but I can't stand DMing 5E for various reasons. Without play, ideas are not tested and everything I write will be shallow theorycrafting.

-OSR Handwringing: The OSR as a whole is going through a rough patch right now, to say the least. Pillar after pillar of the OSR turns out to be kinda shitty, causing other pillars to drift away. That's all I'll say about drama, but it definitely affects enthusiasm. For myself, I've come to the conclusion that the OSR is a very good style of play- yet it is but one style, and we sometimes act as if very good rules of thumb for OSR games are in fact rules of thumb for All Of Roleplaying. I've done this in the past, probably on this blog. It's hard to avoid, sometimes, when enthusiastic, but I think it's useful to try to recognize. In the future I might try to write not only about old school roleplaying, but other types of games too. 

-Writing Style: I ramble too much. Even when I trying very hard not to. I'm just not good at blog writing yet. Only way to get better is practice, but until then... it is difficult, lol.


The good news is that I *have* been running games a bit more, and it's gotten me a bit more fired up. Hopefully that will translate into more blog posts soon. If not... see you next year!

Blog Redesign

I changed the name of my blog to Wyvern Moon. I already like it better than the generic "Lizards and Wizards".   Also changed the design, just to, y'know, completely disorient people. Of course, this blog hopefully hasn't been in existence long enough to cause anyone problems- if I have regular readers I'll be astonished..

This is definitely a blog in search of a purpose. I've had a hard time playing D&D recently as my usual group has basically dissolved. Finding new groups is tough because people are so prickly. Including myself.

Still. It's useful just for brainstorming, and I do feel my few theory posts have been solid enough. . Eventually maybe I'll complete one of my 30 or so half-completed blog entries.

FIRST

Welcome to my Blog, "Of Lizards and Wizards". Named as such because I am awful at naming things.

I'm no good at introductions, so I'll keep this short.

This is primarily a D&D blog, with a focus on old school D&D content... probably. I play other games too, and might blog about them when I do. 

The goal of this blog is first and foremost to simply provide a place to post more fleshed out ideas sparked by discussion on Chris McDowall's OSR discord. I'm a semi-regular there (more like a lurker, really). Secondly, I hope to provide some useful content- I'm not as creative as some others in this space, nor am I particular good with math or clever at making systems. But there might be some places I can help.

Finally, this will be a place to post play reports. I feel play reports are somewhat love or hate- some people are bored to death by them, others enjoy even mediocre reports for their insight into how other tables play. I fall into the latter camp, so, as I enjoy reading play reports, I'll try my best to post some. This will require me to actually play D&D, which is motivational in it's own way!

Anyway, it could be some time before the next post. Please do not expect too much- I've never done this blog thing before. It'll probably be awhile before I find my voice. We'll see how it goes.

- PK