FreeRPGDay(s)?

Rainy days and Mondays always bring me down....

It's summertime, so that means at least one day of my weekend is dedicated to going down to my Mom's and taking care of the yard, plus running number of errands that she might roll a d20 for right before I show up.  She's 77 now, and it was a hard 77 years, so I'm happy she's still moving from room-to-room, much less heading to Wal-Mart for prescriptions she could just get through the mail for free.

But this past weekend was just a drenching rain most of the day,  so I scratched yard work and called to check on the errands.  

None.  Zip. Zilch.  

As I was already moseying down that way, I diverted my trip to make some stops for #FreeRPGDay.

First stop was JAF Comics, between Bethlehem and Nazareth.  I was very happy that the gaming rooms were in full use, even if it was card games.   Even if the RPG section didn't grow, the board and card games were more robust, and they had a good selection of FreeRPG stuff.  

To balance things out, and not take everything from JAF, I drove down PA-191 into the city of Bethlehem and The Portal.  There were three separate RPG sessions running in their game room, and even an official Battletech Missions game finishing up.   I did make my only purchase there: a pair of black metal Mepacon d20s.  

Sunday, I had plans on staying local, heading over to Sword in the Stone Games, and joining a game or two.

And then my Mother called. 

Out of milk, out of toilet paper, out of all of her prescriptions, and the grass was looking a little shaggy.   I did make a stop there before I ran down there again, picking up a few random books that they had plenty of off.  Sword in the Stone had two different CCG events going on, and still had five tables of RPGs going on. 

The good news is, my Mother has food, a clean yard, and is fully medicated. 

Really, the big steals of the events seem to be the Indie RPG Anthology, printed by 9th Level Games, and the FreeRPG Day special for Dungeons & Kittens.