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]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
annaw and 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.
annaw and 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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