Everything Old (Wod) Is New Again
In an odd confluence of events, it seems I'm a Vampire Storyteller again.
I basically gave up on the game back in 2003 after my last group. I'd run with people of varying quality over the years but a series of malcontents pushed me entirely out of the gig. I didn't even add the events of that chronicle to the Master Timeline I've kept of all the vampire stories I ran in the 90's. And with White Wolf folding the old World of Darkness a year later, well, seemed time to hang it up and move on.
Obviously, I've been feeling nostalgic for the old days of late. It happens; I'm a creature of rampant sentimentality. Carousing some old relics at Bookmans, as I mentioned doing in my last blog, I ran across a couple other gamers - a husband and wife - who were pleasantly social, clean and intelligent. (After my final group especially, this was such a breath of fresh air. Literally.)
And so it's come to pass that starting this appropriate month of my beloved Halloween, I'll be running vampire again for the first time in years.
And I don't see why not, really. I've shown myself pining for the old school of Vampire from back in the day and not without reason. I like having a little busywork to do preparing for a game on the side, as long as it doesn't interfere with my writing (which if you've tuned in lately around here, you can see has been going quite well).
For many years, my Master Timeline has languished, since so many of the players who threw into it moved away, started families, or darkly, were ousted from my life for excess indecency. It's rather trippy that I'll actually be adding to it again. That it's not the completed work I thought it was; there are still some stories of blood, passion and darkness to be spun into it after all. In fact, purely for shits and giggles, I may even post some of the stories run here, for your collective entertainment. Maybe I should post the Master Timeline again just to have it online somewhere.
Well, it's been a long time since my vampire days and my entire life has changed on multiple levels. We'll see if the old saying is true, if you really can't "go home" again.
I'll keep you posted. If you turkeys even care. :)
c.t.
I basically gave up on the game back in 2003 after my last group. I'd run with people of varying quality over the years but a series of malcontents pushed me entirely out of the gig. I didn't even add the events of that chronicle to the Master Timeline I've kept of all the vampire stories I ran in the 90's. And with White Wolf folding the old World of Darkness a year later, well, seemed time to hang it up and move on.
Obviously, I've been feeling nostalgic for the old days of late. It happens; I'm a creature of rampant sentimentality. Carousing some old relics at Bookmans, as I mentioned doing in my last blog, I ran across a couple other gamers - a husband and wife - who were pleasantly social, clean and intelligent. (After my final group especially, this was such a breath of fresh air. Literally.)
And so it's come to pass that starting this appropriate month of my beloved Halloween, I'll be running vampire again for the first time in years.
And I don't see why not, really. I've shown myself pining for the old school of Vampire from back in the day and not without reason. I like having a little busywork to do preparing for a game on the side, as long as it doesn't interfere with my writing (which if you've tuned in lately around here, you can see has been going quite well).
For many years, my Master Timeline has languished, since so many of the players who threw into it moved away, started families, or darkly, were ousted from my life for excess indecency. It's rather trippy that I'll actually be adding to it again. That it's not the completed work I thought it was; there are still some stories of blood, passion and darkness to be spun into it after all. In fact, purely for shits and giggles, I may even post some of the stories run here, for your collective entertainment. Maybe I should post the Master Timeline again just to have it online somewhere.
Well, it's been a long time since my vampire days and my entire life has changed on multiple levels. We'll see if the old saying is true, if you really can't "go home" again.
I'll keep you posted. If you turkeys even care. :)
c.t.