The Return of Gaming?
Over the past several days, I have made some decent progress with my languishing D&D campaign. The next session is a big one as far as plot stuff goes in my game. To be honest, I'd been planning something big for this event for quite some time, although what I had wanted to happen here changed as I applied sense to my thoughts and discovered the original plan didn't make any at this time. But, something major happens now, something really big. It all makes sense now, so I was able to stop fretting over it and move forward for a change.
The players are expecting the trigger, an event I've actually been building up to for quite some time, allowing them chances to become invested in the outcome. As the day has arrived for that event, it becomes time to have my even bigger event, which was always meant to be timed with the one they know about. It's so big, I'm struggling just a little to work out its details, but it is also meant to be a turning point in my plot lines as I have come to realize them, and I'm sure, when the dust settles, my players will see that too. It will also end the current trend of each session being an event and allow me to go back to dungeon crawly jobs for a bit. They will even get a new job, one I know they will be eager to take.
Hopefully, after this, we will also return to more routine gaming sessions, so all of our (for both of us) hard work and planning maintains some continuity of remembrance. That always becomes the issue; will we game often enough that everyone remembers the important things? It would also help if I could get more ideas about the future of my game, though I now have ideas about what each of my plot lines end games might be about and have directions to now steer my thoughts into. This is more than I had before. I know that soon(ish), I will have my next session worked out and ready to be run. What I'd also like is most (if not all) of the job that follows it worked out as well. So long as work has been done on it at all, I can safely run the next session, but the more I have of the next job completed, the better I will feel about things. As I've said before, I can be quite the slacker and now is hardly the time to be slacking.
The players are expecting the trigger, an event I've actually been building up to for quite some time, allowing them chances to become invested in the outcome. As the day has arrived for that event, it becomes time to have my even bigger event, which was always meant to be timed with the one they know about. It's so big, I'm struggling just a little to work out its details, but it is also meant to be a turning point in my plot lines as I have come to realize them, and I'm sure, when the dust settles, my players will see that too. It will also end the current trend of each session being an event and allow me to go back to dungeon crawly jobs for a bit. They will even get a new job, one I know they will be eager to take.
Hopefully, after this, we will also return to more routine gaming sessions, so all of our (for both of us) hard work and planning maintains some continuity of remembrance. That always becomes the issue; will we game often enough that everyone remembers the important things? It would also help if I could get more ideas about the future of my game, though I now have ideas about what each of my plot lines end games might be about and have directions to now steer my thoughts into. This is more than I had before. I know that soon(ish), I will have my next session worked out and ready to be run. What I'd also like is most (if not all) of the job that follows it worked out as well. So long as work has been done on it at all, I can safely run the next session, but the more I have of the next job completed, the better I will feel about things. As I've said before, I can be quite the slacker and now is hardly the time to be slacking.