Holiday Gaming
Jan. 2nd, 2008 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
Adieu, Living Death. I shall miss you and all the pleasure you've brought me over the years.
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.
Adieu, Living Death. I shall miss you and all the pleasure you've brought me over the years.
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Date: 2008-01-03 11:18 pm (UTC)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...
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Date: 2008-01-04 08:32 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2008-01-07 08:18 am (UTC)