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This weekend I gamed. A lot.
On Saturday I finally got to have another session of Convergence, my epic fantasy mini-campaign in which the players are seeking the ancient magical mcguffins in order to stop the 5,000 year giant scary demon invasion thing from happening. The session went really well. We had one replacement player who, after about an hour of observing and seeming a little uncomfortable, suddenly jumped in and became a key voice for the rest of the session. The session took a month and a half of game time, due to large amounts of travel (they covered some 800 miles on good roads plus by boat, plus they hacked their way 6 miles through jungle). They had one almost meaningless combat, but that particular campaign has now had only 2 combats in 5 sessions, so it seemed like a good thing to throw in a meaningless combat. They'll probably have one or two more. The jungle is an unpleasant place, and they have a lot of jungle to go.
In the second game, I ran a D&D 3.5e one-shot. We had a paladin, a cleric (of Pelor), a sorceror, a half-orc barbarian, and an elven rogue. The party gelled together pretty fast, once chargen was done (which took about twice as long as I wanted, alas) and the mini-module I ran, while not great, turned out pretty fun. We had some good interaction, and the 'mystery', while straight-forward and simple, had just enough interesting bits to make the game playable and enjoyable. Also, the barbarian didn't get to sleep with the hot elf chick, even though she promised--because she insisted he bathe, and by bathe he meant "Be bathed by my eager and willing servants and...aww, you fell asleep. Poor half-orc. You had a good night, didn't you!"
On Saturday I finally got to have another session of Convergence, my epic fantasy mini-campaign in which the players are seeking the ancient magical mcguffins in order to stop the 5,000 year giant scary demon invasion thing from happening. The session went really well. We had one replacement player who, after about an hour of observing and seeming a little uncomfortable, suddenly jumped in and became a key voice for the rest of the session. The session took a month and a half of game time, due to large amounts of travel (they covered some 800 miles on good roads plus by boat, plus they hacked their way 6 miles through jungle). They had one almost meaningless combat, but that particular campaign has now had only 2 combats in 5 sessions, so it seemed like a good thing to throw in a meaningless combat. They'll probably have one or two more. The jungle is an unpleasant place, and they have a lot of jungle to go.
In the second game, I ran a D&D 3.5e one-shot. We had a paladin, a cleric (of Pelor), a sorceror, a half-orc barbarian, and an elven rogue. The party gelled together pretty fast, once chargen was done (which took about twice as long as I wanted, alas) and the mini-module I ran, while not great, turned out pretty fun. We had some good interaction, and the 'mystery', while straight-forward and simple, had just enough interesting bits to make the game playable and enjoyable. Also, the barbarian didn't get to sleep with the hot elf chick, even though she promised--because she insisted he bathe, and by bathe he meant "Be bathed by my eager and willing servants and...aww, you fell asleep. Poor half-orc. You had a good night, didn't you!"
