I ran my first gaming session in about six months yesterday, for the ongoing super-epic gods-and-worlds-level campaign that I run for [personal profile] annaw and [personal profile] korpikuusi. My brain has just plain not been up to it for most of the pandemic. However, in some of the planning for that, we decided that we'd also start a 5th Edition D&D game with some more crunch and low-level stuff, which I can run while I develop more Plot for the epic game.

The degree to which this has re-enthused me about running games is something else. I've been reading the rules, reading over various forums and commentary, and watching an episode of Critical Role (given it's video, this is notable) as general getting-up-to-speed stuff. In the last low-level game I ran (4E, for a bunch of my co-workers in LearnUpon), I built the world slowly as I went along, and that was a good experience, so I'm going to try to do that this time too. It's hard not to start writing stuff in advance, though.

Re-starting the mid-level 4E game with all the players (I think one session had 11 players) will have to wait until a point when the various COVID-19 restrictions change, but this will very much keep me going in the meantime.
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This post inspired one of last night's dreams for me.
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And now, with spare time...

"We" - me and the SCA people I'm friends with - were on holiday, in Pennsylvania. I don't know why. On the first night, I went to a café bar by myself, which was really odd.

The next day, we, in costume/garb, went to be adventurers in the countryside. We knew it was a Dungeons and Dragons adventure, because you showed us the pages from the professionally printed adventure you had written and were running, but you were also a player and it was also real.

We split the party. I don't know why. While [personal profile] avenueyew, [personal profile] annaw and I explored a riverbed, the rest of ye went inside a mountain. At the river, we had a nap, and then woke up an undine, which attacked us. After figuring out we couldn't harm it, we ran away, and I woke up. The end.
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