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.
I’d like to work on it this week. I’ve also gotta do stuff like rebuild the Map of the Known World and start expanding on the site. Oi!
I was talking about your Friday game night just this past Friday. We were watching DVDs of Freaks and Geeks and watched an episode where the Geeks invite one of the Freaks to play D&D with them. He rolls a dwarf and names him Carlos and wins the campaign. Christopher got super nostalgic and dug out his old manuals and his tri-fold DM thingy and took a nice long stroll down memory lane. I said that I knew we had a standing invitation to y’all’s party every week. He sighed and nodded and got a wistful look in his eye. Then he ranted a little bit about how angry he is he doesn’t have the first edition rules. Turns out the boys next door had those, so they just shared. And that gave me the opportunity to say, “Speaking of kids you played with when you were small, I got into a fight with Shadowhelm on the internet today….”
Long story short (too late): I look forward to reading that!
If he wants to play, he can play. You guys are always welcome.
Seconded. Though it might be better to actually meet him first, before we freak him out with the crap Chris’ sick mind has been entertaining us with recently.
The fight with Shadowhelm was great. You both had some really good points. And oh yes, I’m still very much ambivalent.
Yea it has gone in a more sick direction as of late, but hey at least we know what we are doing or at least I know Ark-amedes knows what he is doing…most of the time.