Fictive Fun

 August is over already? Goodbye summer. Well, I live in the southern portion of the US so I guess we still have some summer left. I'm actually ready for the heat to go away now. I read through quite a few TTRPG books in August but only got to play one game. That game was Apothecaria and I have a few playthrough fiction entries and a review up on the blog.  Photo by 2Photo Pots on Unsplash Games That I Read Summit - A solo game about a mountain climber ascending to the peak of the mountain while reflecting on their life. This was creative but the subject matter and setting didn't draw me into playing. High Above Them All - An "Alone Among The Stars" type game about an inhabitant on a floating island observing the world as they float in the sky. I am not a big fan of the "Alone" series of games but my hobby of reading RPG's will always draw me to them. Shelf Talker - This game fits on a bookmark. A micro-sized writing game in which you come up with s...

 It's been a while since I did a blog post. I know consistency is key when it comes to content creation, but who am I to think I am some kind of professional journalist or influencer. I'm just a dude who blogs when I get the inspiration or motivation to type something. It is what it is, no apologies. I digress. Let me refocus on the topic at hand. I have spent the majority of the past month reading and playing a multitude of solo systems. Ok, that's not really true because I usually spend most of my free time procrastinating and daydreaming about being productive. But I did read a lot of solo games, spent some time organizing my itch.io games in my spreadsheet, and played a few games as well.  I'll split this post into three sections: games that I read (but haven't played), games that I played (but didn't finish), and games that I played through to completion.    via GIPHY Games That I Read These are games in which I read through fully but have not actually play...

Welcome everyone to the Fictive Fun blog. This is actually a reboot of a blog that I had managed regularly from 2017-2022. Technically 2017-2019 because I pretty much quit playing tabletop roleplaying games back in 2020.  My natural habits with any hobby finds me becoming engrossed in it for a time period before getting bored and not participating at all, then to once again becoming enamored and engaging with it again. It is a vicious cycle and probably the reason I selected the ouroboros as my blogger profile picture. The original blog was on WordPress and I liked the customization options and all the little plugins involved but it all became a distraction and eventually it became bloated as I was consistently tinkering with all the little settings. I became overwhelmed with it when I started to lose interest in tabletop RPG's and just quit paying attention to it for years (although I was still paying monetarily for it).  I remember using Blogger years ago for a separate inte...