Back home...
If there is one thing I hate it's procrastination and the person I hate it most in is myself. I've made this damn journal for the stated reasons in the profile and then casually ignore its presence. Is this because I have nothing to write about? No opinion to voice? No trivial matter of fact to debate or ridicule? At the moment yeah actually - I'm a little washed out from the RPG we had this afternoon. Since I'm still working on the plans and photos I might as well tell you about it.
We're supposed to have our In Nomine game every Saturday which my friend Rupert runs. He runs on Sat, I run on Wednesday. It's a tidy arrangement. We both get to play PCs and we both get to GM. All in all it makes us both happy. Rupert is the ONLY person I trust with my New York setting not to fuck it up entirely and we have a good time all round. Today, I'm looking forward to the game. After breaking up with my girl I've been feeling a little off colour. Not in the terrible fashion of extreme sickness, just in the way of remembering all the good things about her and feeling sad that I can't share that with her anymore. So I'm looking forward to playing in this IN game. I can zone out and not really have to think about things all that much. Playing In Nomine is so reflexive for me that it's a lovely escape that I can always rely on. Much like a junkie gets a buzz from the drug.
Rupert, bless his heart, when I get to his place has this to say.
"I'm totally out of ideas and really don't know what to do with this game."
Ahhhhhhhh, what now?? You're WHAT? This is the first time in 5 years since we starting playing this game that he has ever said this. Even when I am out of ideas I still run the game and just improvise it. In fact, most of my games are improvised and are usually very successful because of it. I like coming up with things on the fly and letting the players drive my story and plots forward. It really creates the bond for them with the story and draws them further into it. One of the reasons I love IN so much is that the "system" lends itself so well to this style of GMing. Try doing that with D&D and you're in for a world of hurt unless you know the character creation rules backwards and forwards and can improv an NPC combatant in about 30 seconds. Which I don't think anyone can really do fully with D&D. Grrrrr. So we have to come up with something else to play because come hell, high water or the empty brain of a GM I am playing in a fucking game this avo.
We decide to move Rupert's game to Tuesday (and change GMs to Dan) and I'll run my NYC game on Saturdays from now on. Now, I wasn't really prepared for this. But... the show must go on and in about 5 minutes I had my PCs on their way through a fantastic adventure. Which will continue on next week and be a huge amount of fun I'm sure. I really wanted to play - but in the end I guess this worked just as well to pull me from my small little funk. I will post about the NYC setting at some point to give you an idea of just how involved we all are in this game. It's the same game, running for 5 years now. Characters have changed a bit, but the setting is *alive* now... it's so organic I love it.
Then when the game was through and I'd done the GMs job of handing out the XP for a session well played we sat down for an evening of Jean-Claude Van Damm. I mean, what better way to end an evening? That's rhetorical and I expect everyone to acknowledge that.
Now I'm back home sitting where I always seem to sit (at my PC) deciding if I should take a drink of H20 and hit the hay or if I feel like watching some more Naruto and zoning for a while. I *was* going to head out for some coffee with an old friend but she has to attend some birthday party and will more than likely be there until much later than I can keep my old eyes open for. Having said that I did go to bed at around 4am this morning so I think I can be excused if I'm a little on the tired side. I think I'll have a glass of water and watch some Naruto. I've got to go to a Porsche lunch thingy tomorrow, mainly to actually see my parents outside of work but still the idea of being surrounded by cars doesn't really excite me all that much. I can afford to be a little tired there too.
We're supposed to have our In Nomine game every Saturday which my friend Rupert runs. He runs on Sat, I run on Wednesday. It's a tidy arrangement. We both get to play PCs and we both get to GM. All in all it makes us both happy. Rupert is the ONLY person I trust with my New York setting not to fuck it up entirely and we have a good time all round. Today, I'm looking forward to the game. After breaking up with my girl I've been feeling a little off colour. Not in the terrible fashion of extreme sickness, just in the way of remembering all the good things about her and feeling sad that I can't share that with her anymore. So I'm looking forward to playing in this IN game. I can zone out and not really have to think about things all that much. Playing In Nomine is so reflexive for me that it's a lovely escape that I can always rely on. Much like a junkie gets a buzz from the drug.
Rupert, bless his heart, when I get to his place has this to say.
"I'm totally out of ideas and really don't know what to do with this game."
Ahhhhhhhh, what now?? You're WHAT? This is the first time in 5 years since we starting playing this game that he has ever said this. Even when I am out of ideas I still run the game and just improvise it. In fact, most of my games are improvised and are usually very successful because of it. I like coming up with things on the fly and letting the players drive my story and plots forward. It really creates the bond for them with the story and draws them further into it. One of the reasons I love IN so much is that the "system" lends itself so well to this style of GMing. Try doing that with D&D and you're in for a world of hurt unless you know the character creation rules backwards and forwards and can improv an NPC combatant in about 30 seconds. Which I don't think anyone can really do fully with D&D. Grrrrr. So we have to come up with something else to play because come hell, high water or the empty brain of a GM I am playing in a fucking game this avo.
We decide to move Rupert's game to Tuesday (and change GMs to Dan) and I'll run my NYC game on Saturdays from now on. Now, I wasn't really prepared for this. But... the show must go on and in about 5 minutes I had my PCs on their way through a fantastic adventure. Which will continue on next week and be a huge amount of fun I'm sure. I really wanted to play - but in the end I guess this worked just as well to pull me from my small little funk. I will post about the NYC setting at some point to give you an idea of just how involved we all are in this game. It's the same game, running for 5 years now. Characters have changed a bit, but the setting is *alive* now... it's so organic I love it.
Then when the game was through and I'd done the GMs job of handing out the XP for a session well played we sat down for an evening of Jean-Claude Van Damm. I mean, what better way to end an evening? That's rhetorical and I expect everyone to acknowledge that.
Now I'm back home sitting where I always seem to sit (at my PC) deciding if I should take a drink of H20 and hit the hay or if I feel like watching some more Naruto and zoning for a while. I *was* going to head out for some coffee with an old friend but she has to attend some birthday party and will more than likely be there until much later than I can keep my old eyes open for. Having said that I did go to bed at around 4am this morning so I think I can be excused if I'm a little on the tired side. I think I'll have a glass of water and watch some Naruto. I've got to go to a Porsche lunch thingy tomorrow, mainly to actually see my parents outside of work but still the idea of being surrounded by cars doesn't really excite me all that much. I can afford to be a little tired there too.