Sick Day

Journal 149 2-15 June 2025

Yeah, I’m sick today, and have been for a week now. I’m finally sleeping thru the night and today feels like the breaking point. Sick or not, I felt I couldn’t skip a second week.

I’ll probably keep this short.

Writing?

Well, I mostly paused. Last week, I put together a redux of my campaign setting, writing all the crunch (rules and mechanics) while trying to hold of new fluff (story).

Without bogging down in too many details—details which can be found through posts I already made this year and last—I the game is about a single area of the map. That single area (country) has a ton of space I haven’t explored. Maps to make, rules to write, cultures to explore, and endless stories.

But I find myself wanting to either explore and write (map) other countries. Or work on “crunch” associated with those other spaces. I’ve resisted doing research for the other places.

Reading

Weirdly, to stop myself from working on “wrong material” I spent the week reading non-D&D RPG games and rewatching an old show I used to like.

The other game books kind of failed. I read them thinking that my mind would fixate on the different mechanics, the different feel of a game that was not D&D. But instead, I focused on how it conveyed cultures, the naming conventions, how it built cities and industry around those cities. I found the work to be even more anal-worldbuilding than I employed. With climate and rainfall charts for each region, census information for each of the greater cities, and other such granular details.

It didn’t help me, it just fed my thoughts.

Do I draw more maps? Do I explore new spaces?

I’ll figure it out. I stopped writing while I wallowed in my sick misery and ended up watching a bunch of old tv and new K-dramas.

Watched

I started two shows a couple weeks back that were live—dropping episodes weekly. So, I started both, and then had to pause to wait for the last episodes to watch. While waiting I started two other shows.

If you have Disney+ /Hulu and you like police procedural, murder mystery, profiler type stories. Then you must watch Nine Puzzles. The show is really good and I’ve always found Kim Da Mi to be quirky and amazing as an actress.

The other two shows I finished, waiting for the last episodes to drop, were Pump up the Healthy Love and Tastefully Yours. Both of those were a lot of fun as well.

K-drama

Pump had a lot of hilarious moments you just need to ignore them calling a woman who barely weighs 130# as fat. That luckily doesn’t last long and it becomes more about healthy fat to muscle ratio and how one feels.

Tastefully Yours is fantastic food, fun moments, a lovely FL, and a cute story through most of it. It drags in a couple places which is weird for a show with only 10 episodes. And the FL is absent too much in the last 2 episodes. But the food looks amazing and the show is good overall.

Besides the two K-dramas I ended up rewatching a show I loved when it originally aired. I watched two seasons of Grimm.

Grimm Rewatch

I put the show on just to pass a couple hours. I wanted something on the TV I could listen to while working on something else. The intent was for me to get through about 2-3 hours and finish what I was reading.

I found myself hooked again. Enjoying the show. The effects and story still hold up, the fact that this show and an entire RPG are based solely on a single artbook is amazing. Though I personally think that the show is a better version of how Vaesan should be run versus how the rules are actually written.

I reached a point where I missed several episodes originally, so later today, I’ll be watching episodes I never saw. Should be fun… and while watching those episodes I will be working on either new maps, or more crunch. We’ll see.

Damn Cold

Well, now that I’ve been awake for a little while my cough is starting to come back up and I fell like crap. So, cup of hot tea, cough drops, books or notebooks, blanket and tv time.

See you next blog.