Take warning, children...
If you ask God for guidance, sometimes He answers you immediantly. After yesterday's sermon, I said, "You know, Lord? I haven't been too involved in this church, what do You want me to do to help them out?"
That same evening, Dad received a call from the pastor, Norman, asking him for help staffing a boy's camp this week. Apparently, he got ambushed at the last moment; he thought that he was going to be a counselor, the camp directors thought he was going to be the pastor. So... he asked Dad for some help.
Dad couldn't help him. I could. So... I'm heading out in about an hour and a half or so, and will be gone for the rest of the week, taking care of the "munchkins." *sighs* I really left myself wide open for that one, didn't I? :)
I've gotten everything packed and all, but I'm feeling kind of nervous about the entire trip. I mean, I've never been in charge of... well... people so much younger than I, and I also have no idea of what I'm supposed to do as a cabin leader-type person. Hopefully there will be an informational meeting or something, or else I'm going to make an utter fool of myself. Definately not something I'd enjoy, especially since this is the first time I've ever been counted on for very much of anything church-related. Very stressful.
D&D, on the other hand... I was the DM this time around, since Daniel couldn't make it, and while I tried my best... eh... It wasn't as good as I thought it should have been: the group was too large and had too many distractions for me to get to everything that I wanted to.
...and what was up with Team Nature (the nymph/half-dryad/druid) constantly trying to get out of the adventure? Wayne mentioned that he would have let them get out of the story, but... I guess that's his style: I had to transplant another battle and go with the cliched route of getting them to fight the devils (We will burn your forest!) What ever happened to the good old fashioned, "Hey, we need to stop those devils because they're, you know, seriously evil, and stuff"?
Unfortunately, the battles weren't as difficult as I thought they would be. Namely, most of the group (with three exceptions) were either completely unhurt or not too badly off after three battles (granted, the first two weren't that great of a challenge, but still...) The next battle, if there is a next battle, will be a much greater challenge, mind, but I don't like the sudden rise in difficulty. :-/
All in all, the feedback that I received was mostly positive, which threw me, because I thought that the session was... off to a bad start, and it didn't really climb to the point that I wanted it to. However, considering the group composition and size (and the two three four people that walked in to distract us,) it wasn't too bad, I suppose. It's just a shame that few people seemed to like the devil idea (Wayne seems to think that I've stolen some ideas from him, which I didn't, I swear; Levi pointed out that every DM so far has used Baatezu, and Barbazu in particular; Shane gave the kind of complaint about them that I really couldn't tell if he was seriously or just pulling my chain (funny, considering I was supposed to bring in a Kyton...); everyone else either didn't mention it or gave a nicely-worded chiding over the pick of monster.) Eh... bringing in Tanar'ri would have been a nice change, but at this CR, they either would have been a pushover (for those at roughly the same or lower CR,) or a desperate fight for survival (at the higher ones.) We'll see what happens next time, though, should there be a next time. *nods*
That same evening, Dad received a call from the pastor, Norman, asking him for help staffing a boy's camp this week. Apparently, he got ambushed at the last moment; he thought that he was going to be a counselor, the camp directors thought he was going to be the pastor. So... he asked Dad for some help.
Dad couldn't help him. I could. So... I'm heading out in about an hour and a half or so, and will be gone for the rest of the week, taking care of the "munchkins." *sighs* I really left myself wide open for that one, didn't I? :)
I've gotten everything packed and all, but I'm feeling kind of nervous about the entire trip. I mean, I've never been in charge of... well... people so much younger than I, and I also have no idea of what I'm supposed to do as a cabin leader-type person. Hopefully there will be an informational meeting or something, or else I'm going to make an utter fool of myself. Definately not something I'd enjoy, especially since this is the first time I've ever been counted on for very much of anything church-related. Very stressful.
D&D, on the other hand... I was the DM this time around, since Daniel couldn't make it, and while I tried my best... eh... It wasn't as good as I thought it should have been: the group was too large and had too many distractions for me to get to everything that I wanted to.
...and what was up with Team Nature (the nymph/half-dryad/druid) constantly trying to get out of the adventure? Wayne mentioned that he would have let them get out of the story, but... I guess that's his style: I had to transplant another battle and go with the cliched route of getting them to fight the devils (We will burn your forest!) What ever happened to the good old fashioned, "Hey, we need to stop those devils because they're, you know, seriously evil, and stuff"?
Unfortunately, the battles weren't as difficult as I thought they would be. Namely, most of the group (with three exceptions) were either completely unhurt or not too badly off after three battles (granted, the first two weren't that great of a challenge, but still...) The next battle, if there is a next battle, will be a much greater challenge, mind, but I don't like the sudden rise in difficulty. :-/
All in all, the feedback that I received was mostly positive, which threw me, because I thought that the session was... off to a bad start, and it didn't really climb to the point that I wanted it to. However, considering the group composition and size (and the two three four people that walked in to distract us,) it wasn't too bad, I suppose. It's just a shame that few people seemed to like the devil idea (Wayne seems to think that I've stolen some ideas from him, which I didn't, I swear; Levi pointed out that every DM so far has used Baatezu, and Barbazu in particular; Shane gave the kind of complaint about them that I really couldn't tell if he was seriously or just pulling my chain (funny, considering I was supposed to bring in a Kyton...); everyone else either didn't mention it or gave a nicely-worded chiding over the pick of monster.) Eh... bringing in Tanar'ri would have been a nice change, but at this CR, they either would have been a pushover (for those at roughly the same or lower CR,) or a desperate fight for survival (at the higher ones.) We'll see what happens next time, though, should there be a next time. *nods*