Ok, last week I did pretty great. The game was high energy, lots of action, lots of laughter, just exactly the kind of game you want to play or run. Last night, not so much. Last night I was not in the zone. My players were kind of all over the place, which is, you know, players gonna play. The best laid plans of GMs are all undone by random player choices. It probably didn’t help that I had to take Benadryl right before the game. Oh well. I loved some of the choices the players made but I think I tend to reward their creativity too much. There was one fight in particular that I just let them side-step because the attempt was so out-of -the-box, plus the player rolled a natural 20 for a 40 total check… I mean, how do I not let that work? I’m realizing now that I should have let it work for maybe a round or 2, let them slip through that room, and then had the bad guys shake it off and come up behind them… damn. That would have been a challenge and been really funny.
There was an amusing little sequence where everyone except the 1/2 Orc barbarian and the Elven cleric made their saves and Orc and the Elf fell under the compulsion to raise a weird alien baby as their own. They had a lot of fun with that. It’s the gift that keeps on giving too since they brought it back home to the circus. The Orc is already trying to train the limbless critter to wield an axe. ^_^ Good stuff. Next week will be better. I just need to do a little more prep work so I understand the bad guy abilities more and have a notion of what they will do if the players choose to approach things in an unexpected way.
My Husband ran us in Age of Ashes today and it Rocked! We got to go home to our castle for the first time in a long time, we added a library, trained up our guards, visited with the townspeople etc. Then we went through another gate, possibly into the underdark. We saved a young red dragon from a purple worm. It was a little nerve wracking. Mallum got eaten by the worm but he cut his way out so, Yay! That’s it for gaming news. I’m beat and wishing for rest and nothing to do at this point.
XXXOOO
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