Gaming Posts Update

A while back, I was think­ing of putting up a sum­mary of what’s hap­pened so far in the Fri­day night D&D game.  Then every Sat­ur­day or so, I’d put up a post-game sum­mary.  It works for some other blogs I’ve read. I know a few of you quiet ones out there are won­der­ing what’s going on with this, so I thought I’d update you real quick.

Last Fri­day, Newby joined the group.  He made him­self a char­ac­ter, and Chris threw him into the thick of the action.  When he encoun­tered us, we had to sum up the story so far.  This part of game night took roughly 5 hours!  There were 4 play­ers plus the DM giv­ing infor­ma­tion, and I know that poor Newby’s head had to be over­flow­ing by the end of it.  We closed up with me promis­ing to com­pile the infor­ma­tion in a read­able nar­ra­tive.  My over­whelm­ing thought was, No won­der I’ve been pro­cras­ti­nat­ing on this. This is going to be one heck of a long write.

After some dis­cus­sion with the play­ers and Chris, we’ve all come to the con­clu­sion that the DM needs to take a heavy part in writ­ing this novella. Here’s how it’s prob­a­bly going to work.  Chris has a web­site parked for the pur­pose of his game world, any­way.  We’re not sure what for­mat it’s going to take, but the game sum­mary to date is going to go on his page.  We’re going to update it, prob­a­bly in blog for­mat, together.  Com­ments will be open for all, espe­cially the play­ers to dis­cuss and replay their favorite bat­tle scenes. We may have sec­tions on Kuralia’s boards to talk about it, and we might even have other guest bloggers.

I’m much more com­fort­able with this deci­sion.  It was going to take a good week of writ­ing to get every­one up to date.  The flow was also off to have an ongo­ing nar­ra­tive every Sat­ur­day, bro­ken up by my climb­ing on soap­boxes or squee­ing about books or what­ever it is I’m doing here.  Although I love talk­ing gam­ing, and sev­eral peo­ple were very enthu­si­as­tic about hav­ing a writ­ten record of our may­hem out there, it just felt wrong for me to be doing all the writ­ing and then putting it on this blog.

There will be an announce­ment and updates to let you all know when it’s start­ing to get up and run­ning.  Cur­rently there’s no real time­line, so don’t hold your breath.