I am held up at a family function and will definitely be late for (and possibly not make it to) coffee hour today. No worries - Skool doesn't require me to be there to start the call, so if you were planning on hanging out with us then you should still do that! I will join you when I can.

Here's the signup for next Wednesday's game! Gold members get first pick, but anyone can join us for free.https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0B44AFA723A2FB6-63905757-blades Sorry that it's late going up! It's been a busy, busy week but I'm getting back on track. Can't wait to play with you all! We play Blades in the Dark every week, Wednesdays at 7:00 PM ET. For folks interested in joining but don't have the time, feel free to fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflqZ48v2fJs9eZpWKTUSjsmgfjgee8c2Sxb6COwI5YFEcvlQ/viewform?usp=publish-editor This will let us know when folks are available and vary up our schedules a bit! We're planning on throwing in extra games at times when other people can try out the system and chat a bit.

I know people vary in their acceptance of AI, and I have my own concerns, but I've been using NotebookLM lately and really enjoying it. You include sources into a notebook and it adds the content into a model. I add episode recordings into a notebook and it provides stunningly good summaries, and also answers questions about the content very well. It isn't perfect, and occasionally you have to correct it (especially names), but it has proven to be very useful for helping me to remember things that happened 100+ episodes ago.

For those of us that have tried the Collaborative Campaign Design process, I thought it would be fun to share the genere statements our tables came up with. I'll start with mine. A Mysterious Post-Apocalyptic Dynamic Struggle

Dnd 5.5e. To try to make a long story short, we are about 2 sessions into a collaborative campaign that was an offshoot of a prewritten mod. 5 player characters who were enticed into going a hundred years into the future. Got most of my ideas about how to run this from you all here, thank you ! If you’d like a lot of detail you can probably read my past posts. The Paladin is motivated to find his missing grandfather who had been assumed dead but got clues he might be in this time period, was further found to have a natural time traveling ability. I have two relevant factions to this scenario–the Revenant Occupation who are eco fascists/racists who want to eliminate dwarves and elves and purify the area of time travel and the Temporal Authority who regulates time travel. I set up the clues so the grandfather had previously been arrested by the Temporal Authority in their massive compound but then the Revenant Occupation kidnapped him and took him to their subterranean dungeon and that they want to sacrifice him at a big gathering they’re having. They are set on wanting to talk to someone at the Temporal Authority to get more info about this, the organization itself, the kidnapping, and the revenant occupation. Naturally I had thought the Temporal Authority would just be an afterthought of a faction for now, the players have been told they’re a bureaucracy, not evil but there’s lots of agents, a big fortified compound with lots of weapons & monsters, but of course this is what they’re focused on ha ha. People avoid the Temporal Authority because if you draw attention to yourself or ask too many questions they start following you and harassing your friends and family. The players are aware the Temporal Authority recruits a lot so they’re focused on attending a recruitment event and talking to people on the inside. They feel something isn’t adding up with the grandfather being kidnapped from there. Any suggestions about potential routes to take with that? I didn’t give that much thought, I don’t have a secret reason this doesn’t make sense to them. Any suggestions about what attending a recruitment event might be like or possible options for paths they could take that would tie this together? I do have a local tavern owner who is going to meet up with them in a few days to connect them with someone who deals in magical goods and to connect them with a disgruntled Temporal Authority employee if that helps with any suggestions. Thanks if you've read this far!