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Sep. 11th, 2025 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angelcage◇ Played that Daggerheart session with friends!
The system was really slick. I'm not a big DnD fan, I tend to be more of a PbtA or similar type games, but the fear vs hope success system was really fun, the way combat didn't have real turns so much as kept going until you rolled a fail and then the GM got to do as much as they had tokens for, the GM having a d20 so they took bigger swings whilst the players had a more reliable 2d12, it was all a very well considered system that clicked together nicely. I'm not sure how much I'll be playing it, but that's just because I don't have the corebook and I tend to gravitate towards weird little indie games.
But. I am employed now. Maybe I can save up to, at some point, do some Daggerheart.
Theatri Glacialis was also fun to play, I got to use my terrible Russian accent and be off-putting but helpful. Good character decision for a one-shot. Maybe I will play him again sometime if I do get to return to Daggerheart.
◇ One of the advantages of life in the Hague is though it's pretty small-town-ish, the museums and the embassies here mean there's still some pretty lively events every now and again. This last weekend, it was the Embassy Festival, a bunch of the international embassies set up stalls, with people dressed in cultural costumes, hawking food and pressing travel brochures on people, and two big stages for folk dance and arts. I caught the Sri Lankan dance performances! There were three, and I managed to get a spot to watch from right up front. I was looking for my home country to see what they were doing— which, was selling wine. Nothing else, just wine sales. But! Hungary was right next to Japan, and Japan had a guy with one of those super long asymmetrical bows with a traditionally dressed archer, and some people in samurai armor, and their stall was all old swords and armor. And then Korea and Vietnam set up right by the food-court area and were doing their soft power diplomacy via food, which yeah, good choice. I think Cameroon's stall was actually the most impressive though— they had sort of a dance party going on? And drummers and musicians, everyone dressed traditionally, and they'd invited a Cameroonian restaurant down from Amsterdam to provide food for their stall, so they had fish being roasted on these open fires that smelled amazing. I took one of their cards, so if I'm ever in Amsterdam and I have the money I can drop by and try it for real.
◇ And then, since everything happens at once, it was also the club-hopping festival downtown and a back-to-school movie marathon at the indie cinema near centraal. So my friends group last minute organised to watch a truly terrible so bad it's good 80s flick called Nuke 'em High, which was awful and hilarious. Most Reagan era thing I've ever watched. And then after that, the cinema was closing up but the silent disco next door was still going and they weren't charging cover or anything as part of the club-hopping festival, so four of us grabbed headphones and danced for a bit before heading home around 1 AM. All things considered, an excellent weekend.
◇ Which sort of makes up for how stressful this last school week has been.
I'm trying to rehaul my whole schedule due to last minute finding employment and inferential statistics homework taking me seven hours to complete for one assignment.
All professors involved have agreed to it. It's just a matter of finding who within the university administration has the power to actually change my schedule now._@ My academic advisor meeting today ended with me being told to just go to the front desk on monday and being like these are the changes I want made, the academic advisor is backing me and you can call her if you need to. So, I guess that's my monday.
The system was really slick. I'm not a big DnD fan, I tend to be more of a PbtA or similar type games, but the fear vs hope success system was really fun, the way combat didn't have real turns so much as kept going until you rolled a fail and then the GM got to do as much as they had tokens for, the GM having a d20 so they took bigger swings whilst the players had a more reliable 2d12, it was all a very well considered system that clicked together nicely. I'm not sure how much I'll be playing it, but that's just because I don't have the corebook and I tend to gravitate towards weird little indie games.
But. I am employed now. Maybe I can save up to, at some point, do some Daggerheart.
Theatri Glacialis was also fun to play, I got to use my terrible Russian accent and be off-putting but helpful. Good character decision for a one-shot. Maybe I will play him again sometime if I do get to return to Daggerheart.
◇ One of the advantages of life in the Hague is though it's pretty small-town-ish, the museums and the embassies here mean there's still some pretty lively events every now and again. This last weekend, it was the Embassy Festival, a bunch of the international embassies set up stalls, with people dressed in cultural costumes, hawking food and pressing travel brochures on people, and two big stages for folk dance and arts. I caught the Sri Lankan dance performances! There were three, and I managed to get a spot to watch from right up front. I was looking for my home country to see what they were doing— which, was selling wine. Nothing else, just wine sales. But! Hungary was right next to Japan, and Japan had a guy with one of those super long asymmetrical bows with a traditionally dressed archer, and some people in samurai armor, and their stall was all old swords and armor. And then Korea and Vietnam set up right by the food-court area and were doing their soft power diplomacy via food, which yeah, good choice. I think Cameroon's stall was actually the most impressive though— they had sort of a dance party going on? And drummers and musicians, everyone dressed traditionally, and they'd invited a Cameroonian restaurant down from Amsterdam to provide food for their stall, so they had fish being roasted on these open fires that smelled amazing. I took one of their cards, so if I'm ever in Amsterdam and I have the money I can drop by and try it for real.
◇ And then, since everything happens at once, it was also the club-hopping festival downtown and a back-to-school movie marathon at the indie cinema near centraal. So my friends group last minute organised to watch a truly terrible so bad it's good 80s flick called Nuke 'em High, which was awful and hilarious. Most Reagan era thing I've ever watched. And then after that, the cinema was closing up but the silent disco next door was still going and they weren't charging cover or anything as part of the club-hopping festival, so four of us grabbed headphones and danced for a bit before heading home around 1 AM. All things considered, an excellent weekend.
◇ Which sort of makes up for how stressful this last school week has been.
I'm trying to rehaul my whole schedule due to last minute finding employment and inferential statistics homework taking me seven hours to complete for one assignment.
All professors involved have agreed to it. It's just a matter of finding who within the university administration has the power to actually change my schedule now.
_@ My academic advisor meeting today ended with me being told to just go to the front desk on monday and being like these are the changes I want made, the academic advisor is backing me and you can call her if you need to. So, I guess that's my monday.
