DNAphil

Finally some gaming this weekend!   This Sunday, I got to run my Iron Heroes campaign for the first time since early April.  It was a pretty good session, but it was a but bumpy and the group was a bit unfocused, myself included, since it was our first time back to the table in many weeks.  The adventure went off pretty well.  The only sticky spot, was a one-on-one combat between Dr. J’s character Arion, and the minor bad guy, The Chain Maiden.  I don’t like to put one-on-one combats into the game, as they are a bit boring for the other players, but it fit the story, and for what I was looking for.  In the end it was a bit boring for Sargon and Spenser, as the fight took a bit longer than I had hoped.

But that one-on-one went directly into a group fight against the main bad guy for the evening, the Chain Devil.  That fight went pretty well, but Sargon’s mage, Severis, got left behind in the rush to fight the Chain Devil, and wound up doing some buffing and not much direct combat.   In all the session was positive, but I would have liked to have had the entire group engaged in the fight.

After the session, our group sat and talked about where the campaign was going.  We had decided a few weeks ago, that we would be dropping the Mass Combat system from the game, as we did not have enough time to support it.  So with that component gone, there was discussion of what we should do next, and after talking to all the players and looking at what remaining story threads we had left, it was clear that it is time to start the final arc’s of this campaign and bring this campaign to an end.

It was a bitter sweet talk, as this campaign has been running for over two years, and is the longest I have run.  At the same time, the campaign was set up with one huge goal, and eventually you have to deliver that goal (unlike Chris Carter in the X-Files).  So I will be gearing up to finish off my Iron Heroes campaign this year.  I told my group, that i wanted it to run into December, so that it will be 3 years old, because I like milestones.

Aside from my Iron Heroes work, I spent time working on the rules to my Global Frequency game.  I am running the second “extended beta” of the game this Friday, and need to not only get the session notes together, but get some of the rules done at the same time.  I will be burning the candle at both ends this week to get it done, but I think it is totally possible.

I have also continued my reading of Corporation, and am fully enjoying what I am reading.  Its like Cyberpunk and d20 hooked up, and their angry offspring got their hands on some large scale weapons and combat enhancing drugs.  How could you not want to play that?

This week, I have an article coming out on Gnome Stew, about Backup Games, and I will do a few commentary posts, as I am going to spend the week writing Global Frequency.

See you later this week.