Holiday Gaming

[jaegamer]

For the most part, seasonal but inconvenient snowstorms put a serious cramp in my gaming plans.  Our home Arcanis game failed to save vs. our schedules (and that the GM and one player attend school out of state and are only here for the winter break).  I did run my Chill campaign twice, with much curtailed attendance (due to player reproduction, rather than school or snow).  (congrats to Erika & Jason on the birth of Carl August Nichols!)

The big gaming event, for me, was running the finales of the Living Death campaign for CARP.  I wore the t-shirt I'd bought at the beginning of the campaign to run the final chapter.  It seemed only fitting.

The campaign lasted ten glorious - and terrifying - years.  I played it at the premiere, and my remaining high level character, Miss Evangeline Pennyworth, expired at the official finale at Winter Fantasy (er, the DNDXperience) last winter.  I was sad then, but it was somewhat lightened by the knowledge that I'd be running modules for the club for the next year.  Now, alas, it is over.  I ran six characters (3 deaths) to a very satisfying conclusion on Monday, and there were no dry eyes at the table as I read the final text through tear-blurred vision.  The ending was right and proper, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.  All campaigns should end when the story is well and truly told, the villains banished for all time and the heroes - bloody and weary, but not beaten - victorious in the end.

Countess Ivanova	Buddy Burgess, Watchmaker	Alphonse Rene Sabine The French Waiter	Miss Evangeline Pennyworth Lady Archaeologist
Died: Roman Holiday, Death of Kings	Died: Tomb of Jade	Died: Summer of Evil, Night in Shanghai	Died: Defiance

     

Adieu, Living Death.  I shall miss you and all the pleasure you've brought me over the years.

Comments

[raconteurx.livejournal.com]

Jae, I continue to be jealous of your marvelously active gaming life. My own disintegrated along with the rest of my life, going on two years now. I did enjoy the wonderful six-year run of a friend's Pendragon game, but that ended in 1999 shortly after we fought the Battle of Badon in-game. The end was due to changes in everyone's lives (marriage, children, new jobs) and not the conclusion of the Matter of Britain.

Still, we had the chance to say farewell to our original characters, as most died at Badon. That the end came as we prepared to move from the struggles of the Interregnum and Arthur's early reign to the deepening of the Enchantment of Britain and the start of Arthur's golden age was the true tragedy, so rare for any game, let alone a Pendragon one, to truly reach a conclusion.

I miss the days when I had friends to game with, and regular times when we met. Ah well...

[jaegamer.livejournal.com]

You've had a rough year...

I work hard at maintaining that gaming availability. CARP takes up a lot of my time (both organizationally and running games), and some weeks I really don't feel like running on Wednesday... but when my players get there, I usually perk up.

I'm extraordinarily blessed by a large circle of wonderful friends, most of whom are also gamers.

[raconteurx.livejournal.com]

My large circle of wonderful friends became a casualty of two shattered relationships and a lot of moves out of state. Does not help that Ann Arbor's gaming scene became rather insular, nor that I refused to buy into either the D&D nostalgia craze or the entire d20 OGL craze.