Reliving the past...

So, as you could tell from my last post, I went to the bachelor party. No, I didn't really have fun, over all. Thinking about it now, while those things I posted about definitely contributed to my misery, I believe that it was also the fact that I had to work the next day. That weighed on my mind at least part of the time. I would forget about that, but then I'd remember with crystal clarity that I had to be at work in less than 8 hours. I would have requested that Sunday off, but that whole payroll thing really threw a wrench into the works. The girl is more or less trained enough now; I'm not answering my phone on Sunday. Period. They can do without me for one week.

( Work drama )

Anyway, I left work, and came home to pick up Aron, who was going to hang out with us, even if he didn't play Shadowrun. I got home, and he was painting the house. While that's good, I wasn't terribly thrilled about it, since I could have gone straight to Brad's/Scott's from work, and saved on gas. I called Scott, and talked to him. I mentioned that I was thinking about not going to the game because of how tired I was, and he began to all-but-whine that he needed to get out of his house. I told him I would pick him up, and he asked when. Annoyed by his attitude, I told him "before 330p", since our game starts at 400p. He then told me to call him before I left, so he'd know when I was headed over. GRR!! I said I was leaving within ten minutes.

Going up there, I kept trying to doze off. I managed not to, but I was definitely BEAT. I showed up, and the punk was helping his dad install a shower and toilet. I was there for at least 30 minutes, before we left. Sheesh.

We got to Brad's, and settled in. I talked about my day. When Brad asked if we should put off the game for the week, I readily agreed. I wasn't really in the mood for playing Shadowrun. Strangely, what I was in the mood for was finishing that module from Friday night. Rodney arrived, and that's what we did.

( What I did for fun on Sunday )

I'm thinking about reading up on another of the Dungeon adventures, and being ready to run it next time we feel like it. I'm also seriously contemplating grabbing a bunch of modules from the issues I have, and constructing a campaign out of them. No backstory. No save-the-world. Nothing to motivate them but the promise of more adventure over the next hill. You know, let their actions dictate what happens in the game world. Let things happen as they may.

Something to think about, anyway...

What did I do today?

And, why am I posted all at once at the end of the day, instead of updating throughout? [Because I am an idiot...]

I didn't do squat today. I slept for a long time, hoping to recover from this head cold that I haven't shaken, mainly because I haven't been sleeping right lately. I woke up feeling much better, though I can tell it's still there, for now.

I browsed some of my old entries, and deleted some of the stupid "quiz" posts. They have to have content for me to keep 'em, I think. I really should clean the lot of 'em out before I hit my 1000th post, which loom nigh. Anyway, I read some of the old logs for the Silver Marches game.

I very much miss that game. It was a lot of fun, and the players were just establishing themselves in the world really well, when I brought it to an end. Since then, I've unloaded all of my Forgotten Realms books, save Silver Marches, mainly because of how much I like that setting. Make no mistake, it may be just a piece of the Realms, but the Marches is a setting unto itself. The neat thing is that the players haven't explored even a quarter of it yet. There's so much more I can do with it.

However, I have Dragonlance, Kingdoms of Kalamar, Midnight, and the upcoming Eberron as potential settings.

What's my fixation on changing settings? One thing is that I tend to imagine worlds-changing storylines. By the time the players finish, the world isn't the same as it was before. Running that module on Friday and Sunday, though, opened my eyes to what it would be like to have a setting that was what it should be: background. That's not to say that things can't happen in it, but wouldn't it be nice for the setting to still be at 20th level what it was at 1st level ? Also, saving the worlds-changing stuff for epic levels, I can make the challenges more like I envision them. Is it not epic for the heroes to face off against the main villain in front of the portal that he is opening, preparing to spill the hordes of evil armies into the land? Is it not epic to defeat him, and seal the portal away?*

This is something I'm going to think about, as it would be very fulfilling to go back and run another campaign in the Marches. As for the rest of Faerun, I can casually ignore that it even exists.

After all, that's what most settings do with anything other than the main continent.

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* - That's how I originally envisioned the original Silver Marches game concluding, but I couldn't make it work out for me. :( Hindsight really IS 20/20.