{"id":568,"date":"2009-08-01T10:18:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T15:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/568"},"modified":"2016-10-18T17:50:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T00:50:19","slug":"zanzarah-short-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/568","title":{"rendered":"Zanzarah: Short session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My last session was short and uneventful.  I made a more thorough exploration of a couple of locations, and I managed to level up a couple of my fairies, and that&#8217;s it.  It strikes me that this is not a bad way to play RPGs &#8212; a little bit of incremental progress now and then, as time allows &#8212; but that I haven&#8217;t been doing it lately, because of this blog.  If I&#8217;m committed to writing about each session until I finish the game, I feel every session has to yield something worth writing about.  But how many insights can a game like this provoke?  Thus, I try to save up my Stack gaming for longer sessions, and on days when I can&#8217;t do that, I just play games that are already off the stack, or demos, or free web-based stuff.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/YMM315\/moneyseize\">Moneysieze<\/a> has been a particular obsession of mine lately, and I should probably write something about it at some point.)<\/p>\n<p>Thus, to the extent that this blog was meant to be a way to encourage me to finish up older games, it has failed.  It is sometimes actually discouraging me from playing them.  I&#8217;m not sure what to do about this.  A modification of the Oath might be in order, or maybe just a shift in attitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last session was short and uneventful. I made a more thorough exploration of a couple of locations, and I managed to level up a couple of my fairies, and that&#8217;s it. It strikes me that this is not a bad way to play RPGs &#8212; a little bit of incremental progress now and then, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[285],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-rpg","tag-zanzarah-the-hidden-portal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4157,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/4157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}