Late nights aren't good for happy posts for me..

I've been thinking about how I miss D&D for its own sake, and was gonna post an update regarding how things have been going in that quarter, but I realized I was getting unnecessarily grim. So, instead, a bulleted list:

• I wound up dropping lordreaibn's Sunday 4e D&D game, due to work-related stress.


• My own 4e/3e game was stillborn, due to work-related stress.


• I found out today that a variety of publishers are not going to 4e, and -- given the public's tendency to use the most current version of anything -- I'm left wondering if there will be a future for those companies.


• Being really tired cools my enthusiasm for D&D in any form.


• I came up with an idea for a noir-style Eberron game set almost entirely in Sharn. I've since decided that it'd work best as a short-term campaign (maybe levels 5-10?).


• I want to use Pathfinder (Paizo's 3.5 continuation), but I like encounter creation in 4e a *LOT*. Enough that I'm still conflicted regarding which I'd rather use.


• I miss D&D when it was "Dungeons & Dragons" because there was a real honest chance you could run into one or both of those in a game session.


• In January, 4e is going to market "Power Cards" -- nonrandom decks of cards featuring powers for a given character class. While I can appreciate the utility of such a product, I confess that the thought of pushing an RPG to use both miniatures and cards makes me nervous, and miss the item above just a little more.


• I miss those days when all I needed for a game were some willing players. We'd happily roll characters, and the action would bring itself. If I had a module, then we'd work our way into that, but the fun was simplified. Now, it's "noir-style Eberron game" or "4e game using a home brew campaign in which the PCs must save the world" or "massive module to take most of the guesswork out of the game".

I'll post more later, and not just about D&D.

Work is a touchy subject for me this week, for example. Let me just say that I'm really ready for a little time off. REALLY READY. >.<;;

Business as usual

Last night, I left you with a bit about work being really stressful (enough to cancel two different games).

Here's the short of it. I really don't think my Customer Service Manager likes me. Or, she's so wrapped up in how things affect her only, that she's incapable of empathy. When I first got there, I was "one of her backups" and things seemed like they'd be really nice.

For about a week.

( ...and the long of it... )

Time will tell what comes of all this, though I can tell you that I don't plan on silently putting up with this anymore. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: it's time to dust off my resume. It's time to look at course catalogs for Southwest Tennessee Community College. It's time to find a way out of this pit of debt, and get the fuck on with my life. This stagnation has GOT to come to an end, PERIOD, starting with my job/education/money management.

I have a 6am-3pm shift tomorrow, so I'm going to try to get some rest tomorrow evening. Maybe I can talk Charles and April into going to see Dark Knight (which I have yet to see).