Vegas, 2025, Part I

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Well, I took a year off from Vegas and didn’t miss it, but this year, I came back because of all the ideas I had for a stateside vacation, it was hard to ignore the fact that my Vegas comps made the trip here so damn inexpensive. I arrived yesterday (Monday), and I’m fimishing this post up at about 10:30 am Tuesday. There’s some good and some bad, and as always some lessons to be learned. Let’s home the rest of the trip is more of the good and less of the bad.

The Good, or Should I Say the Really Good

First off, I have an M-Life Mastercard, which means that every time I pay for groceries, utilities, internet, dinner at a restaurant, etc., I earn comps as if I’m gambling. Over the course of a year, these add up, such that I walked into my trip this year with $465 to pay for meals — including alcohol but not including tips — and entertainment. I don’t drink very often, most of the entertainment options don’t appeal to me, and those that do aren’t available during the says I’m there. So, that meant steak dinner every night.

But wait! There’s more! My suite (yeah, suite) at the Park MGM was free for four nights without me having to spend any of my reward points. It just comes with the card. Nevertheless, my smoke-free room at the only smoke-free casino on the strip comes with a $400 resort credit, so in fact, I have $865 to spend. Maybe I *will* drink after all.

Oh, do you think I’m finished? Nope. It just gets better. I don’t play slots, so all these years I’ve built up a balance of “Slot Dollars” I never used. The current balance was $1,181, so I was expecting to have to burn through those dollars playing slots. If I made $10, it’d be a free $10, so why not. Well, I went to the cage to set up my account (I had wired my gambling funds ahead of time) and asked what I thought was a stupid question: “Can I covert my Slot Dollars to regular rewards?” They said yes, so now I have over $2,000 to spend on dining.

Pretty sweet.

There’s no way I’m spending that much, but the points don’t expire, and I’ll be heading down to the MGM National Harbor in Maryland in January for our office holiday party, so I plan to get there early and have a free, overpriced dinner before our event. Also, there’s always next year.

BTW, despite having recently reserved this room at Park MGM for this trip, I can still get a free room at any other MGM property. There’s got to be an upper limit to the number of nights I can get per year, but I’ve spent four nights here, and spent four nights earlier in the year (will explain in a second), and yet I havent reached that limit yet. Unbelievable.

One last thing before we get to the bad news. MGM’s program merged with Marriott Bonvoy, so those four nights spent earlier in the year? They were at a Courtyard Marriott in Ft. Wayne, IN.

I can’t imagine a better rewards program as long as you like Las Vegas.

The Bad: The Hotel Itself

The staff is great, and the fact that the entire building is smoke-free is awesome, but for me, Vegas is a blackjack trip. After eating breakfast at my favorite breakfast joint in Vegas (Ri Ra between Mandalay Bay and Luxor), I came back to Park MGM to play. There were only two blackjack tables open at 9:30 am, and both were full. I asked the pit boss if he was opening new tables, and he said, “Not until shift change at noon.” As you might expect, he unhelpfully told me that I could always play in the high limit room (minimum bet $100 per hand).

Gee. Thanks, buddy.

Moreover, those tables, and all the tables I saw last night, were $15 tables that paid only 6:5 on a blackjack.

For those not understanding, this is something of a scam. If I bet $10 on a hand and win, I get $20, which is my $10 bet plus the $10 I get for winning. Simple enough. If I get a blackjack on that same bet, I win a bonus amount instead. Traditionally, that bonus amount was another $10 (2:1), but over the past couple decades, that’s dropped to $5 (3:2). Now these low bet tables pay only $2 (6:5). There’s a logic to this — inflation makes the low bet tables worth less to the casinos — but it really cuts into any chance you have of winning without counting cards, which most people can’t do, and even fewer people can do without getting caught.

Fortunately for me, this year I planned to play only one day, which was Tuesday. I play $25 base hands, and I don’t count cards, so it seems like this isn’t much of a burden. However, if there are no 3:2 tables available, I’m stuck as if I’m playing only $10 or $15 hands. Considering that my money was tied up in an account with Park MGM, that’s where I had to gamble. If this were nothing but a blackjack trip, wiring funds to Park MGM would have been a disaster for me. In order not to have to carry $5,000 with me on my way home — I almost never carry more than $20 cash and have only $8 in my wallet for this trip — I can’t move my money over to another casino.

Side note: Because I was staying at Park MGM for the first time, I went to that cesspool known as Reddit to ask the Vegas subreddit what the tables were like there. In addition to these guys trying to swing their dicks and pretend they’re high rollers (or if they are, completely ignore the fact that most people aren’t), they all flat out lied about the nature of the tables while needlessly insulting me. (Seriously, there was no reason for the insults. They came out of left field.) On my walk to breakfast, I verified that Excalibur, Luxor, and New York New York still offer plenty of $10 and $15 tables, and $25 tables still pay 3:2. Unfortunately, as I mentioned above, I was stuck at Park MGM for gambling.

Now, the suite itself is large but not terribly impressive. Mandalay Bay’s bathrooms in ordinary rooms are far superior. It has a foyer separated from the bedroom and living room, which makes no sense. The bedroom should be separated from all the other rooms (but connected to the bathrooms). As it is, the foyer is simply wasted space. That still makes the room bigger than an ordinary room, but meh. It’s hard to ignore how great a slight redesign could be.

All of this is to say that despite coming here virtually every year for decades, you always learn something new.

More to come.

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Halloween, 2025 #Halloween #costume #Jason #horror

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I’m in the unfortunate position of not being able to fully participate in my company’s Halloween costume contest. I have to wear something that can be quickly removed and put back on, so things like face paint are out of the question. In order for people even just to like my costume, I have to tell a story. Last year, I wore a prison jump suit. This year, I give you the prequel to that costume.

Did Jason wear dress shoes?

It’s hard to be scary when everyone knows they can outrun you.

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Perfect Albums

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This post is a bit convoluted because it’s dealing with two related topics that each deserve their own post, but I’m lazy, so you’re getting one that’s probably going to just as long as the two posts would be collectively if written separately.

Perhaps I’m not as clever as I think I am.

Topic One

About 5 years ago, I published a post about an apparent consensus among 80s music professionals that Boston’s first, and self-titled, album and Def Leppard’s Pyromania were perfect albums.

Topic Two

I love listening to entire albums at once. By doing so, you see where a band is in their current development as artists. Listen to more than one, and you see their evolution (for better or worse). Additionally, concept albums can be fascinating even in pure isolation. Finally, if you’re in the mood for Maiden, all you want to hear is Maiden (or whatever band is infecting your brain at the time. If you’re

The Convoluted Mess

As of late, I’ve been listening to entire albums on my commutes to and from work, inspired in no small part by several recent deaths of musicians that meant a lot to me. On my worst day, my commute is 25 minutes, so longer albums are spread among a few back and forths. I began to think about perfect albums. Boston and Pyromania may have been consensus “perfect” albums to a particular set of people at a particular point in time, but whether an album is “perfect” is obviously subjective. So, my list will differ from yours (perhaps drastically), but the theme will remain relevant. I should also add that the implied definition of “perfect album” is that 1) there were no bad songs, and 2) the album was ground-breaking or stupendous in its artistry. While that definition may make for some interesting discussions, I want to use a definition that has more practical value, and also opens up the door to a larger number of albums, thus encouraging even more of those interesting discussions. Nevertheless, the definition should still meet the commonly understood meaning of “perfect.”

An album is perfect if there isn’t a single song on the album that you want to skip when listening to the album, regardless of whether even a single one of those songs is what you consider “great.”

To help appreciate the subtle shift in new definition, my favorite Night Ranger album is Seven Wishes because in the aggregate, that album has their best collection of music, but it’s not a perfect album. I’ll skip a couple of songs on that album that I don’t like. On the other hand, I never have any desire to skip a single song on their Big Life album. Big Life is perfect by this definition, but it’s still not a desert island necessity. If given a choice between the two albums, I’ll take the imperfect Seven Wishes and spend my remaining days marooned on that desert island listening to only part of it.

I mentioned above that I may want to listen to an entire album simply to hear where a bad was at the time, but if I’m listening for nothing but pure entertainment value, I’ll skip through the stinkers.

This definition certainly opens up the door to more perfect albums, but it’s still a very high standard to meet. Many albums come very close, but if you think it through, they fall short. Perhaps the best example of that is True Blue by Madonna. Yesterday, I listened to that album (minus one song) for the second time in less than a week. It’s so good that I had to hear it again, but I never liked, La Isla Bonita. It just doesn’t do it for me. The same can be said for Madonna’s Like a Virgin. It has my favorite Madonna song, Material Girl, but I find myself skipping a few songs.

I just want to say why Material Girl is my favorite Madonna song. It’s a bouncy, ditzy, simplistic song with a horrible message. Though the music video shows that the message is being delivered sarcastically, it’s still just silly, bubble gum pop. But somehow, within that context, when that chorus kicks in, it drives. How does she pull that off? You have to respect that.

Sticking with 80s pop for a little while longer, I love the Outfield’s first album, Play Deep, but Nervous Alibi sounds like a song that they added to the end of the album just to make sure side one and side two were about the same length. Switching to some harder stuff but staying in the 80s, I feel the same way about Inside on Van Halen’s 5150. 5150 is one of my favorite 80s albums, but it ain’t perfect. Inside is boring, repetitive, and clearly a song for them, not me. There’s nothing wrong with that, but I’m going to skip it every time. My favorite Cars album is imperfect. Obviously, my favorite album of all time, Duke by Genesis, is perfect no matter the definition you use, but Genesis’s self-titled album from 1983 falls short for the opposite reason as Play Deep and 5150: it’s first song, Mama. Though very popular even among merely casual Genesis fans, I never liked it. Every other song on that album receives my full attention, but it’s not perfect.

It seems almost unfair.

Bands with Multiple Perfect Albums

Not many artists have perfect albums, and even fewer have multiple perfect albums. Being that Rush and Fleetwood Mac (with Stevie and Lindsey) are my favorite bands of all time, they obviously have several perfect albums. In fact, it’d take far less time to tell you which of their albums are not perfect, so let’s skip them. There are a couple of artists that are high on my list of favorite bands, and they fall into this category. I think that Iron Maiden’s Number of the Beast, Powerslave, and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son are perfect. Piece of Mind and Senjutsu are close, but no cigar.

Ozzy has two: Blizzard of Oz and The Ultimate Sin. As with Play Deep and 5150, many albums fall short of perfect because of the last song on the album. In sharp contrast, The Ultimate Sin ends powerfully with Shot in the Dark. It’s almost daring you to call it imperfect, then says, “Sike!”

No More Tears is oh so close, but it’s ultimately imperfect.

Supertramp’s Breakfast in America is perfect. Billy Joel’s Glass Houses and Yes’s 90125 are perfect, though not their best albums overall. Jefferson Airplane/Starship is one of my favorite bands, but they don’t have a perfect album, and that bugs me. I feel like I failed them.

Overall, I have a small amount of fun revisiting albums with this question in mind. Maybe you will too.

Or not, losers.

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Organized Play Ain’t What It Used to Be #DnD #TTRPG #RPG

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A little over a year ago, I wrote a post about my glory days of Dungeons & Dragons (“D&D“) living campaigns. I left D&D in 1982 due to the Satanic Panic and didn’t return until 2005. When I came back, Living Greyhawk was ongoing, and the TTRPG culture surrounding it was great. A little later, Living Forgotten Realms came along, and not only did Wizards of the Coast (“WotC“) up their game, but so did my friends and I, running weekly games at up to six Washington, DC area sites for 250+ RPG Gamers’ Syndicate members, plus weeknight stuff (i.e., D&D Encounters), and for two years, a convention. The entire experience was robust, which I think is a perfect word to describe it. Because I quickly grew tired of 5th Edition D&D, all of that fell off the radar for me.

Fast forward to this past week. A new coworker saw a d20 on my desk and asked if I play D&D. The conversation turned to those glory days, and she asked if that stuff was still going on. I told her I’d look into it. I asked around my old channels and got no reply. I went to the WotC store locator, and long story short, there were no official D&D Adventure League retailers in Northen Virginia. Huzzah Hobbies still exists, but there are no D&D games on their events schedule. Everything I came back to in 2005, and last dealt with in maybe 2019, is gone. The only infrastructure is online through social media sites in which my coworker isn’t interested (e.g., Facebook), and as I mentioned above, reaching out to Facebook groups resulted in no responses. She and her husband are in a single online game via Discord but want to sit around a table and throw dice. When I explained how living campaigns worked, she found that incredibly intriguing.

Something wonderful is missing. The community seems disjointed because more than just the game itself has been relegated to technology. TTRPGs have always been social in nature.

You’re probably prone to think this is a function of my age; however, before I was an attorney, I was a database geek. Not only do I not fear technology; I love it. After all, I’m currently creating digital character builders for various games. Applying technology to game play itself is a great thing. I don’t like playing games without digital character builders (hence, my projects). Moreover, my coworker is probably 25 years younger than I (maybe more) and has been playing D&D for less than a year. She has no nostalgic ties to the early 2000s culture. She simply knows that she wants what I used to take for granted, but it’s no longer available in Northern Virginia. Despite not personally needing this real sense of community, I find that sad. Maybe there’s a timely lesson in this that applies to more than just TTRPGs.

You don’t know what you’re missing.

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Happy 25th Anniversary, Dungeons & Dragons, 3rd Edition #RPG #TTRPG #DnD #3e #1e #ADnD

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I returned to Dungeons and Dragons in 2005 after 23 years away due to the Satanic Panic, then starting a new career, then law school. When I came back, Living Greyhawk was my way in, and before you knew it, I was running gamedays all across the DC area, and even ran a convention, synDCon, for a couple of years. I went to my first Gen Con during those times, and like most of you went to plenty of smaller cons. As much as 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons (“3e“) turns me off now (which is a lot), I still enjoy thumbing through the books for nostalgia, and of course I’ve played it in somewhat recent history to connect with friends that remained with it. More importantly, whatever my criticism of the crunch, the flavor was as good as any edition.

Damn right.

Nothing demonstrated the disparity between crunch and flavor better than the Truenamer from Tome of Magic.

Prepare to vanish.

Because it’s primary abilities were based on skills (cool idea in theory, Rob Schwalb), the character’s power slowly diminished for three levels before it suddenly got a boost on the fourth that overcame that diminishment. Other players would be frustrated by the truenamer’s impotence. Eventually, that boost wouldn’t be enough, and the only way to keep pace was a single, specific, magic item, the Amulet of the Silver Tongue, that the DM had no choice but to give you (unless the DM hated you). No one else could make use of it. Unfortunately, there were only two versions of that item (i.e., lesser and greater), so after 12th(?) level, the character never could keep pace with the rest of the party’s power curve. Sure, a DM could just create a “superior” version of the Amulet of the Silver Tongue, but considering two more were were necessary to keep the character relevant through 20th level, they should have been included.

But I’ll be damned if that class didn’t have the greatest built-in flavor of any class I’ve played. The class used spooky words of power known as utterances to rearrange reality to suit its needs. At the highest level, there was an utterance, Unname, that could erase a creature from existence. It did so by warping reality and removing the creature’s truename from existence. Neither resurrection nor reincarnation could bring them back. It cost a ton more than that, which was a cost far more than anyone would ever want to pay. Bringing a class like this into other editions should have been a priority. It’s just too damn cool.

Rob Schwalb is one of the best writers in the industry. He had a really cool idea, but the system was convoluted that breaking away from the standard led to disaster. In this case, the disaster was an underpowered class. But enough with this digression.

In preparation for starting a new 1st Edition (“1e“) campaign a few years ago, I replenished my RPG stash, but not just 1e. There were quite a few books I wanted to get back from my 3e days, and with a little help from my friends, I did. These included the Book of Exalted Deeds, Deities & Demigods, the Fiendish Codex: Tyrant of the Nine Hells; and Drow of the Underdark:

Everything else I wanted I already had, but that was still a lot for a game I don’t play. Why? Flavor. I loved what the Fiendish Codexes did. I loved expanding on the Drow even though it has since been done to death. And I became a Dungeons & Dragons fan because I was a mythology nut, not the other way around. Without leaning in so heavily to mythology, I’d have never been interested in it.

Whatever its strengths and weaknesses, 3e will always hold a special place in my heart.

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It’s Finally Here! My FASA Star Trek Character Builder #RPG #TTRPG #StarTrek #FASA

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And only 35 years late!

Okay, I know I promised to get my FASA Star Trek RPG character builder up and running over the weekend, but I ran into a serious snafu, and it needed to be addressed. In any event, it’s up now. You can find it in this GitHub repository: https://github.com/Frylock1968/FASAStarTrekRPG. There’s a long-winded read me file that you really should read before you use it. Because none of you will, here’s a summary:

  1. It’s written using Access 365, which is a limited programming tool.
  2. It’s written using Access 365, which means Apple users are out of luck without some extra steps I don’t understand myself, and even PC users without an MS Office subscription won’t be able to run it. This software requires a preexisting installation of Access on your machine. The good news is that, to my knowledge, Access is included with even the most basic Office subscription.
  3. It’s a beta version, which means I’m relying on your help in uncovering errors.
  4. If something doesn’t work, I’m going to fix it, but if there’s a feature missing, it’s unlikely I’ll add it. I plan to make a web-based version of it, and that will include everything.
  5. More features will be added, but only really simple ones. I’ll save all features for my intended web-based application.
  6. A feature I said I’d like to add to this application is the ability to create Orion PCs. Yeah, that ain’t gonna happen. After reading through it, I learned that such a feature requires four different methods, and arguably five. Ruddies, greens, Green slave women, greys, and half-breeds among the bunch are all handled differently, and those differences are non-negligible. That’ll have to wait for the web application.
  7. One issue I can’t seem to figure out is a data lock issue. When you load a previously saved character and edit it, and it results in Chinese characters saved to some of your fields, don’t save it. Something’s corrupted. Instead, reload the character from your hard drive and start again.
  8. One clean up task on my list is to remove excess options from lists. For example, Klingon culture is Klingon culture. It shouldn’t be divided into separate cultures for Imperials, human-fusions, and romulan-fusions.
  9. There’s no user manual. Instructions appear on the user interface itself in red, italicized text.

Game long and prosper, bitches.

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So Very Close: My FASA Star Trek Character Builder #RPG #TTRPG #StarTrek #FASA

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I’ve previously discussed my FASA Star Trek RPG character builder. I updated you by stating that I had made quite a bit of progress. Well, I was going to publish it after adding the component for creating Romulan player characters but decided to wait until I added the Klingon component. I can easily say that it should be uploaded to GitHub by the end of this weekend (let’s say, Sunday, 7/13).

I’ve already uploaded my first beta version of my Gamma World 7e character builder to GitHub (here). I’ll create a new repository for the Star Trek stuff and publish the link as soon as I do. I plan to add a component for creating Orion player characters and merge other components from my prior work into this character builder. That prior work has the means to instantly create solar systems, NPCs of all races, animals, and balanced starship battle groups. Eventually, I’ll replace all of these with web-based versions when I begin producing character builders for other games. Those other games will be contemporary ones still in print, so those will be subscription-based if I can work out a deal with the publishers.

FYI, the Gamma World and FASA Star Trek applications will always be free.

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Uploaded to GitHub: Gamma World Character Builder #RPG #TTRPG #DnD #4e #GammaWorld

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I finally posted my Gamma World 7e Character Builder to GitHub. This is a beta version, which means I need the community feedback to address any hidden bugs. It’s also nothing more than an MS Access database, which means the user interface isn’t exactly perfect, and it won’t run on Apple products. Still, this is, at this moment, pretty damn useful. You can find it here, or you can download it directly from here.

By all means, prove me wrong, and I’ll revise it.

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Media is Shit These Days #media #OldGuard #Netflix #streaming #OldDays #tv #movie

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Here’s something that in part is completely uncontroversial, but I still want to say it because I think some of it might encourage disagreement.

Old Guard was released 5 years ago. The sequel was released recently. I have zero recollection of the original beyond the basics, so I don’t fully appreciate the context, and I didn’t enjoy it. Releasing the sequel 5 years later is just fucking stupid. There’s far too much content we absorb to expect us to clearly remember the detailed context from a prior film that isn’t worthy of multiple rewatches over the years, and I’m not going to rewatch the original just to make sure I appreciate all the subtleties of the sequel that make it worth watching. And that’s for a movie. For a TV show, this is even dumber.

I saw a meme recently that I didn’t save, so I can’t reproduce it here. It pointed out that in the old days, there were 20-something episodes per season, with only a summer break between each season. Now it’s 10 episodes (or fewer) separated by at least a couple of years. In the age of the internet and streaming where release schedules should be more relaxed, this represents a massive failure by the creatives. I’m sure they, along with the suits in control, win with this arrangement: less work for more pay. In the meantime, people can be distracted by all the other content available.

I get the notion of Abe Simpson yelling at clouds. I’m very much self-aware of how I’m not part of the new culture when it comes to a lot of things. Unlike many people my age (57), I’m 100% fine with that. All of you do you, and don’t worry about the guy that isn’t in the most important demographic. But this is fucking stupid, and on this, I don’t know why the currently generation tolerates it. Maybe they don’t feel they have a choice, or perhaps ignorance is bliss, but if they’ve given this any thought and still think this is a reasonable option, then I really don’t get what the kids are thinking these days. In this narrow regard, it was much better in the old days. Considering we had only three viable channels, that’s crazy.

Note well that I’m not criticizing the content itself. Most people my age do, but that’s not what this is about. To the extent that I don’t like the creative direction of modern media, that’s generational, and my opinion should be ignored. I’m talking about something far more objective than personal taste. This is about structure, and the structure is shit.

Or maybe I’m just yelling at clouds.

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More Progress on My FASA Star Trek Character Builder #RPG #TTRPG #StarTrek #FASA

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Six days ago, I posted my progress on my FASA Star Trek RPG character builder. Tonight, I finished the character sheet.

You can download the PDF version here.

The application does not currently support creating Klingon or Romulan PCs for campaigns centered on those empires, and honestly, that’s not a priority. At this point, I have only three things I need to do immediately: Create the capacity to save the character to an external file; create the capacity to advance to the character as it competes adventures, and the customary clean up of bugs and such that are inevitably found during the use of the application. The first two will be relatively quick, and the third one is always an ongoing process.

Oh, and I have to upload it (and the Gamma World 7e character builder) to GitHub so that you can all use them.

I have to spend the next couple weeks focusing on a Response to a Motion for Summary Judgment. After that, I’ll finish this up and start my next project. Or so I hope. The next project will involve a modern game system still in print. I know the author of the game and need to discuss it with him before starting the project. If he gives me the thumbs up, that one will be a bear.

By the time I’m finished, I will be known as the “Character Builder Guy.”

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