{"id":2,"date":"2024-08-27T19:47:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T19:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-09-27T14:45:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T18:45:34","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/sample-page\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Raven Caws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Raven Caws<\/strong> is a blog about my interests in table-top roleplaying games (ttrpg): About playing them, running them, designing them, and everything in-between. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why The Raven Caws? Years ago in some gaming forums, I started using Gunnhrafn as a user name, which is a compound Old Norse word meaning War Raven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Me<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m John, a long-time gammer, academic, technical communicator, spouse, and father. I periodically run games on the Dice & D-pads<\/a>, Raspy Raven<\/a>, and One-shot Fridays<\/a> Discord servers, through Start Playing Games<\/a>, as well as in-person and online games with friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a GM, I run inclusive, welcoming tables, and I strive to balance play style to players’ interests and to the game system. I approach being a GM as I do an educator: My job is try to provide the best experience I can for each player based on their interests and comfort levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I first began playing ttrpgs back in 1982, and started GMing in 1983 or 1984, though not in earnest until 1986. I took a 15-year or so break \u2014 life as a graduate student and an adult who moved to five different cities before online gaming other than play-by-post was a thing \u2014 and returned to gaming in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m one of those gamers who likes to play and run \u2014 and read \u2014 a wide variety of ttrpgs. From 1986 to 1993, my regular gaming group ran multiple campaigns of D&D<\/em> (1e, 2e), Cyberpunk 2020<\/em>, Marvel Super Heroes<\/em>, Paranoia<\/em>, Rolemaster<\/em>, Skyrealms of Jorune<\/em>, Shadowrun<\/em>, and Top Secret<\/em>. Prior to that, I’d played and\/or run Star Frontiers<\/em>, Gamma World<\/em>, Champions<\/em>, Boot Hill<\/em>, Gangbusters<\/em>, Conan Roleplaying Game<\/em>, and others I’m sure I’m forgetting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I came back to gaming in 2014 when I mentioned I liked reading ttrpg rulebooks for fun, and a friend suggested I check out the forthcoming D&D<\/em> 5e as a good example of ttrpg rulebooks as technical communication. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, I’ve run or played D&D<\/em> 5e, Alien RPG<\/em>, Ars Magica<\/em> 5e, Call of Cthulhu<\/em>, CBR+PNK<\/em>, Cosmic Dark<\/em>, Coyote & Crow<\/em>, Cthork Borg<\/em>, Cthulhu Dark<\/em>, The Esoterrorists<\/em>, Fall of Delta Green<\/em>, Gaen Reach<\/em>, M\u00e6rsung, Monster of the Week<\/em>, M\u00d6RK BORG<\/em>, Night’s Black Agents<\/em>, The Paragon Blade<\/em>, Pirate Borg<\/em>, The One Ring<\/em> 2e, Sanction<\/em>, Shadow Run, Star Trek Adventures<\/em>, Swords of the Serpentine<\/em>, Trail of Cthulhu<\/em>, Trophy Dark<\/em>, Trophy Gold, Vaesen<\/em>, and The Yellow King RPG<\/em>. And there’s plenty more games I’ve read and are asking to be played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Occasionally, my academic interests will show up here as well, informing what I write. Those too are rather eclectic: Writing Studies with a specialties in digital rhetoric and technical communication; medieval studies with a focus on Old English, Middle English, and Old Norse language and culture; the history of communication technologies; digital curation; and science fiction and fantasy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Raven Caws is a blog about my interests in table-top roleplaying games (ttrpg): About playing them, running them, designing them, and everything in-between. Why The Raven Caws? Years ago in some gaming forums, I started using Gunnhrafn as a user name, which is a compound Old Norse word meaning War Raven. About Me I’m … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}