Griffin

Griffin’s RPG campaign

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Griffin just sent this message out to his friends and their families (parents are still involved for rides). It warms my heart.

Good day, everyone!

        I am excited to announce that next Sunday (26th), from 2 pm – 8 pm, I will be hosting another RPG session at my house (finally)! We will have dinner provided, as well as the game, characters, dice, and a trampoline. We will not have a lot of snacks, so if you want to bring some, please do (Ava, if you decide to come, some extra Wii and Switch remotes would be delightful!) My father, a very experienced DM, will be running the session, and we will have about equal parts gaming and other stuff. Please respond to this email so I know if you will make it!

       My address is ■■■■■, St Paul, MN ■■■■■, and you can contact either me or my parents for questions at:

[email addresses removed]

 Quick note: We have a new member! Everyone, please welcome Ellie to the campaign! Ellie, if you need help with a character or something, just contact me. 

I hope to see everyone here next Sunday!

-Griffin Roy (Dragonborn Wizard)

For the gamers in the audience, we’re playing the Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game (Powered by GURPS), which has been my go-to game for the past few years. They created a wild array of characters:

Fred
Half-Elf Bard
Jack
Cat-Folk Thief
Maryx
Squid-Folk Martial Artist
The Mineor
Human Cleric
Maurice
Half-Ogre Barbarian
Mozell Bolick
Opossum-Folk Phantom-Thief
Red
Human Druid
Zorgar Lomikos
Dragon-Blooded Wizard

Note that the pictures of Maryx, Mozell Bolick, and Red were created with Midjourney, a generative artificial intelligence program that creates art based on written prompts. I’ve been experimenting with the service for RPG art like this. If you look carefully at Red, you can see some of the details that AI art programs struggle with. Her eyes are a bit wonky and her left hand appears to have three somewhat misshapen fingers.

Andrew, Teaching

Classroom Life

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This evening, hours after I got home from school, I received this email from a student about a project that’s due tomorrow morning:

Hi mr Roy I was wondering if you could put this picture on the smart board to make sure you can read the lettering. if you cant read it then I will change the picture. thanks bye

I guess it’s true that students believe that their teachers live in the classroom 24-7!

(Yes, it is also riddled with mechanical errors, but that’s pretty common with emails from middle-schoolers. He probably felt like he was being super-formal by putting in periods and saying hi.)

Maggie, Oliver

So Sweet it Hurts

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As mentioned in the previous post, Maggie was away at camp all week. Griffin is also at camp and Sarah is out of town, so it’s just been Oliver and me holding down the fort for the past few days. We’ve had a great time.

Maggie returned yesterday. We had a lovely welcome home dinner of spaghetti and meatballs (one of her favorites). Things felt pretty normal. Watched a show. They were bickering before bed, just like usual.

Then, today, Maggie went over to her friend’s house for a few hours. When I was getting ready to drive over to pick her up, Oliver started gathering things in the kitchen. I asked him what he was doing, and he explained that he thought Maggie might be thirsty, so he was filling up her water bottle with fresh water and lots of ice. Then he packed a container of Nilla Wafers because he thought she might need a snack.

Seriously. I just wanted to hug him and never let go.

The latest news from Sarah and Andrew.