An Eighth Shot of Espresso: Coffee and Creativity on Mum's Third Shift

I roll for my stats but no one has ever told me why they ended up so low Last on the initiative list Every time. I would have liked to go out on adventures and not just kill rats in a tavern basement in a small town. Then I thought if I cannot go out on adventures maybe I can have them come to me. That's why I have too many dice but so many characters who are all a part of me.

Clickity clack the dice hit the table fate chooses whether or not you succeed or if you live or die Do you think that the Gods sit high above and play tabletop role playing games move all their miniatures on a cosmic graph board? Who among them is the Game Master? Or does it change on a whim? One day it's Fate and the next day it's Whimsy? Look at your stat sheet and make sure you level up and pick up better gear as you go from quest to quest in the Game of Life.

  Lawful Good: "Cool motive, still murder." Neutral Good: "It's murder, but he was a bad person." Chaotic Good: "He was a bad person, why is murder a bad thing if it's morally right?" The champion of ethics. Lawful Neutral: "Murder is against the rules. I don't care what your reasoning." True Neutral: "I don't really care, keep me out of it." Chaotic Neutral: "I should be free to do what I want, including murder." Middle ground of self serving. Lawful Evil: "As long as it's within our law and order, murder can be justified." Neutral Evil: "I can sell you information for the next murder, pay my price." Chaotic Evil: "I murder to watch the world burn." The dark side of 'freedom'.

Here, take this you really shouldn't go alone: The magical sword a relic of power the magic ring of invisibility the latest technology the power of friendship Gather your allies and sally forth have fun storming the castle don your plot armor. Quest giver the old learned wizard the lady of the lake the forgotten sensei in the bamboo forest of dreams. Conquer your enemy scale the highest mountain vanquish the dragon complete the mission your very essence changed. Return home in triumph showered with wealth and glory or slip back undetected wiser and more world weary to live the rest of your days.

Rolling the dice hearing them clack and bounce onto the tavern tabletop you control their destiny whether or not they live. A world adjacent to ours heroes and villains airships, castles, mine shafts cities and villages other planes of existence. Anything is possible everything is dangerous magic swords and fireballs wizards and dragons relics and cursed objects. Paths drawn by hand a pepper shaker stands in for the big bad antagonist the mundane transformed into the amazing. I miss doing this the cameraderie the creativity the adventure the door is always open.