Game = Life

I am no longer director of the RPGA's Living Force campaign... and so an era of my life ends. I've devoted the last 4 years to it to the exclusion of all else, and now, just before Christmas, my services have been dispensed with. "Decided not to renew your contract." More thoughts on it are in my "regular life" blog, since this is more than just gaming -- it's been my life for 4 years now.

I'm bitter, angry, wounded, exhausted... and relieved.  I'd been finding the new management less and less to my liking, so while giving up my "baby" is incredibly painful, I'm also glad that I won't have to deal with them any more.

There's plenty else to do -- my local gaming club is starting up a horror campaign that I can now help with.  I can finally finish the long-delayed scenario I'd been promising my friend Claire for the Living Death campaign.  I can see my boyfriend more often than just at games!  And... I might even get to sleep 8 hours a night once in a while!

A door closes... firmly... but the future is before me.

Padawannabes is off to the bosses in Renton. Unfortunately it took me two more evenings than I had hoped it might. Ah, well... time enough to sleep when I'm dead.

Tonight we play Adam's home campaign again after a week off for the holidays. We ended on a cliffhanger, as, on returning from a dungeon foray with resources depleted, we opened the door on complete and unnatural darkness... (Uh oh)

I play Eren Willowburr, a young halfling wizard in that game. She grew up near a wild magic zone, and has a profound fascination with all things magical. This is the team that meshes so well together. Our motto: Teamwork, Magic and Luck!

It was a light weekend for the activity of gaming. Friday's game was cancelled due to the Adam (the GM) and his brother (one of the players) going home for Thanksgiving. Which was, it turned out, a good thing for me.

I love the Friday night game. Even though it's D&D (which I can take or leave), the story is good and the characters mesh just beautifully. Our motto is: Teamwork, Magic and Luck. It is, in short, everything I want a home campaign to be. Thus, I really hate to miss it. I fall behind in EXP, and I miss being part of the story.

On t'other hand, another campaign I play in (this one RPGA's Living Death campaign), is run by a dear friend of mine in Springfield OH (about 4.5 hours from my house). She'll run playtest of a Saturday, and I enjoy participating in those as well. So... I'll finish Adam's game around 1 am, and then drive through the night to Claire's, falling face down in the guest room around 6:30 or 7. Then I get up at 9 and play all day.

I'm really getting to old for this...

Well, this weekend I'd promised to run Ed & his pals through a Living Force trilogy way back in September, as was finally paying up. Thus, the cancellation of the Friday festivities meant I had a reasonable amount of sleep before I headed out to Dayton around 5 am. Then I ran till about 9:30 pm and crashed there for the night.

On Thursday and Friday I put two LF scenarios (much overdue) to bed, and got a good start on a third on Sunday. Friday I had a nice working dinner with my Metagaming lead. So... while I didn't play or run much this weekend, there's no question that my long holiday weekend was chock full of gaming goodness.