Gaming with Baby: Christmas Edition

Well it has been a bit since I posted about my son and a lot has happened in the past three months. First let's cover the site stuff.

Blogging News

So I've managed to stay on top of my actual plays from my Apocalypse World game, the Climbers, and keep up with my weekly Monday and Wednesday posts. In part I've been helped by the 6 weeks of game material for A Plague of Spiders I presented over November. But now that it is over, I'm just treading water.

So starting in the new year I'll be switching to presenting Wednesday articles alternating weeks, at least until my actual play game concludes in May or June (the write up will take several more months to finishing posting).

In the meantime, I've started a new season of Myriad Plots, a podcast I did with my wife in the early days of the NOOP. Now with a new co-host (Mike) and as a vlog, we'll be posting it to YouTube the 2nd and 4th weeks of each month. Expect a lot of advice, ideas, and reviews.

I'll be continuing my Monday posts based on the game pitches I posted in August through October this year. I received a lot of nice feedback from those posts and I tallied the interest in each one. The most popular pitches will get several weeks of expanded material. Right now I'm a bit over a third of the way through posting material for You Can't Go Home Again, a Changeling: the Lost chronicle. In February I plan to start a cycle on The Undeath of History.

Where does the Baby Come in?

Sebastian the Christmas Edition

It has been an exciting few months for my son. He's had three plane trips, having visited North Carolina, Denver, and New York. He travels well as long we let him look around. He hates being constrained which might be an issue when he gets bigger.

On that subject my son continues to grow but he's still a tiny baby, weighing somewhere south of the 1st percentile. He's had a lot of trouble sleeping lately, something we hope to help him get used to soon. Now six months old, Sebastian is rolling over, enjoying tummy time more, sitting up for many minutes unsupported, passing items back and forth between his hands, and slowly gaining weight. We recently started introducing solid foods and it is mostly working out. He tolerates sweet potatoes but isn't a fan of bananas.

Next month is the big change. We move from grandparent daycare to the nearby Montessori school. It's a cash pinch but should work out. A least the walk to the school and back should help with my New Year resolution to lose some weight.

Gaming Update

Not as much change here as I might have hoped or feared.

The Online Game (The Climbers)

Still going strong with our 10th session coming this weekend. The replacement player for Mike is working out well and the game just keeps getting better with a fuller richer world. We have some scheduling issues but nothing I can't work past. Perhaps I'll write a blog about dealing with perennially late players at some point on that subject.

Games at Our House (board games)

This is slowly changing into something more roleplaying focused. Maybe. I've been busy promoting the board games with significant choking hazards so I can get them in before Sebastian begins to crawl. It will be several years before we break them out again. For the past few weeks we've played Microscope, detailing a super hero timeline. It was a lot of fun. I still haven't formally brought up the idea of me running another game yet. Maybe soon.

A second Online Game (Apocalypse World: Dark Ages)

We started playing a beta version of Apocalypse World: Dark Ages, Vincent Baker's new game. We ended up with only three players after the fourth discovered he did not have as much free time as he thought. We co-MCed a few sessions before things fell apart. I'm still not sure what happened with one of the players. I know the short sessions and holidays did not help me keep up momentum.

The Future

This upcoming year I will be producing the Myriad Plots vlog, creating more game material for Changeling and GUMSHOE, posting more actual plays, and the usual round of musings and reviews. I'm also hoping to work on some larger projects and most importantly of all, going to GenCon 2015!! It's been almost 4 years but I'm looking forward to seeing some of the rest of the gang there as well as some old friends. Here's to hoping 2015 is even better than 2014.