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Coffee With the Princess!
Donning The Robes Of The Dungeon Master!
**Giggles!**
Kicking off the New Year of 2022 with a new game for the Saturday Night Tabletop Group has been one of mixed blessings for me. Let me try to better explain. Please, bear with me.
While I often call myself either the "Bench-Hitting Dungeon Master!" or the "Marshmallow Dungeon Master!", I have found that I like running things for the Saturday Night Tabletop Group, as my gathering of friends are known now. For those of you who have been reading these journals since 2012 or so, you know that the membership has changed over the years. The Bearded Lantern, the eldest and longest playing gamer of the group, hosts the games out of his garage and his grandson, the Bionic Forearm who I met through my friendship with the Bearded Lantern are my two oldest friends since my gathering at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design.) We three are the core group from the original cast of characters who have been gaming together since 2002, twenty years as of this August I believe. You add the Security Officer, who I met when I returned one year after being gone to get my life straightened out ... and I had become burned out by weekend after weekend of gaming, and he makes the second survivor of the second core group. Now, starting this year, which might as well be 2022, we will be establishing a new gathering. To us four who have been gaming for over a combined 80+ years ... though the Bearded Lantern has suggested the it's probably more like a hundred, you add the Left Fielder, one of my best male friends ... though as he and a few others have laughed and said that "All of your friends are your best friends!" ... and now new comers, IT J, the tech-wizard who does a lot of wiring from the sports complexes around the varied cities, Mr. Scott and his daughter, and another guy who I have yet to meet. So, add me to the cast and you have nine players total.
Having that many friends is truly a blessing, right? And having them all at the garage will be extra fun too I'm sure. But ... here's where it gets a bit crazy. Well ... it's been at least five years since I have run anything with this many people and I haven't been teaching classes since the 1990s either, so this will be a challenge for me. The last time I did a big group for Pathfinder, it was the first game of Skull and Shackles, where one guy ... who I learned later felt snubbed by me because he got ignored. I did apologize to him later, but he told me that if tabletop gaming was that chaotic, he was not interested. While a slap in the face since I thought I did a pretty good job, I'm trying to even now take it like a teachable moment. We also had another large group where one player was such an ass-hat that I did NOT like him. It got ugly through text messages which he started right before my birthday party was going to happen and his being there made me tell the rest of the crew that I was done with tabletop gaming for the time being. Possibly forever. Even to this day, that still stings, especially since the guy is a friend of the Security Officer, who keeps on inviting his friends over to "share the joy of tabletop gaming!" I never want to be the one to turn people away, but I cannot help feeling as I do ... and it also didn't help that the Bionic Forearm, who wad the original Dungeon Master, balked because he needed to take some time with the wife for her up and coming birthday. That's fine. So I stepped in to help out. And that was when I was told that we were getting another player. Once again, I said that was fine, but I told the rest of the group, that I didn't want people to go out and find more people. So far, so good.
Like I said, a mixed blessing to be sure.
I also found out that originally the Bionic Forearm was going to be able to make the game which made me feel like I got set up. But, if you knew the guy, this is par for the course. :)
After talking with the Bionic Forearm, I selected a game that would work for this group ... an earlier edition adventure path known as The Council of Thieves! I have been reading it over the past few days, especially since I was just told this week that I was needed to be Dungeon Master ... "I forgot to tell you!" was the excuse ... natch. The Bearded Lantern has already been working on Wraith of the Righteous and the Left Fielder was stressed out from work this holiday season, so ... you see how this goes. Anyways, it looks like it's going to be a good session. One of the things that the Bionic Forearm asked of me was to run it straight by the book, not as in rules per say ... he knew that wasn't going to be a problem, but he wanted no side adventures or anything added. I told him that with this many people and half of them being mostly unknowns, I had already planned to stick to the path as much as I could to keep me from having to work overtime on it.
It does seem to be nice to start this on January 1st of 2022 and I do hope that I'm up for the challenge. While I do like running the game, it can be problematic as you can guess. Most of the people are mature enough to handle about all topics, but we do have a focus problem from time to time ... and that was brought to my attention. "I used to teach, honey," I commented. "I still have some of my old tricks to handle things with an unruly mob, especially with nerds." That got some laughter!
Perhaps I'm making this more to do of nothing, but I won't know for sure until after the game on how I did, perhaps even into that week. Half the group knows my style and the other half doesn't. I have showed at least that I have no problem with keeping the group informed, save for the new guy ... I don't have his phone number for text messages. But, we should have all of the cast assembled on Saturday evening for the game to start. Someone else is providing dinner, which is good. Fellowship over food is also a good way to start a night like this. So, the rest is left up to me ...
Hopefully I'm up to the task.
BE Happy!
Love and Kisses,
Loonia
Donning The Robes Of The Dungeon Master!
**Giggles!**
Kicking off the New Year of 2022 with a new game for the Saturday Night Tabletop Group has been one of mixed blessings for me. Let me try to better explain. Please, bear with me.
While I often call myself either the "Bench-Hitting Dungeon Master!" or the "Marshmallow Dungeon Master!", I have found that I like running things for the Saturday Night Tabletop Group, as my gathering of friends are known now. For those of you who have been reading these journals since 2012 or so, you know that the membership has changed over the years. The Bearded Lantern, the eldest and longest playing gamer of the group, hosts the games out of his garage and his grandson, the Bionic Forearm who I met through my friendship with the Bearded Lantern are my two oldest friends since my gathering at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design.) We three are the core group from the original cast of characters who have been gaming together since 2002, twenty years as of this August I believe. You add the Security Officer, who I met when I returned one year after being gone to get my life straightened out ... and I had become burned out by weekend after weekend of gaming, and he makes the second survivor of the second core group. Now, starting this year, which might as well be 2022, we will be establishing a new gathering. To us four who have been gaming for over a combined 80+ years ... though the Bearded Lantern has suggested the it's probably more like a hundred, you add the Left Fielder, one of my best male friends ... though as he and a few others have laughed and said that "All of your friends are your best friends!" ... and now new comers, IT J, the tech-wizard who does a lot of wiring from the sports complexes around the varied cities, Mr. Scott and his daughter, and another guy who I have yet to meet. So, add me to the cast and you have nine players total.
Having that many friends is truly a blessing, right? And having them all at the garage will be extra fun too I'm sure. But ... here's where it gets a bit crazy. Well ... it's been at least five years since I have run anything with this many people and I haven't been teaching classes since the 1990s either, so this will be a challenge for me. The last time I did a big group for Pathfinder, it was the first game of Skull and Shackles, where one guy ... who I learned later felt snubbed by me because he got ignored. I did apologize to him later, but he told me that if tabletop gaming was that chaotic, he was not interested. While a slap in the face since I thought I did a pretty good job, I'm trying to even now take it like a teachable moment. We also had another large group where one player was such an ass-hat that I did NOT like him. It got ugly through text messages which he started right before my birthday party was going to happen and his being there made me tell the rest of the crew that I was done with tabletop gaming for the time being. Possibly forever. Even to this day, that still stings, especially since the guy is a friend of the Security Officer, who keeps on inviting his friends over to "share the joy of tabletop gaming!" I never want to be the one to turn people away, but I cannot help feeling as I do ... and it also didn't help that the Bionic Forearm, who wad the original Dungeon Master, balked because he needed to take some time with the wife for her up and coming birthday. That's fine. So I stepped in to help out. And that was when I was told that we were getting another player. Once again, I said that was fine, but I told the rest of the group, that I didn't want people to go out and find more people. So far, so good.
Like I said, a mixed blessing to be sure.
I also found out that originally the Bionic Forearm was going to be able to make the game which made me feel like I got set up. But, if you knew the guy, this is par for the course. :)
After talking with the Bionic Forearm, I selected a game that would work for this group ... an earlier edition adventure path known as The Council of Thieves! I have been reading it over the past few days, especially since I was just told this week that I was needed to be Dungeon Master ... "I forgot to tell you!" was the excuse ... natch. The Bearded Lantern has already been working on Wraith of the Righteous and the Left Fielder was stressed out from work this holiday season, so ... you see how this goes. Anyways, it looks like it's going to be a good session. One of the things that the Bionic Forearm asked of me was to run it straight by the book, not as in rules per say ... he knew that wasn't going to be a problem, but he wanted no side adventures or anything added. I told him that with this many people and half of them being mostly unknowns, I had already planned to stick to the path as much as I could to keep me from having to work overtime on it.
It does seem to be nice to start this on January 1st of 2022 and I do hope that I'm up for the challenge. While I do like running the game, it can be problematic as you can guess. Most of the people are mature enough to handle about all topics, but we do have a focus problem from time to time ... and that was brought to my attention. "I used to teach, honey," I commented. "I still have some of my old tricks to handle things with an unruly mob, especially with nerds." That got some laughter!
Perhaps I'm making this more to do of nothing, but I won't know for sure until after the game on how I did, perhaps even into that week. Half the group knows my style and the other half doesn't. I have showed at least that I have no problem with keeping the group informed, save for the new guy ... I don't have his phone number for text messages. But, we should have all of the cast assembled on Saturday evening for the game to start. Someone else is providing dinner, which is good. Fellowship over food is also a good way to start a night like this. So, the rest is left up to me ...
Hopefully I'm up to the task.
BE Happy!
Love and Kisses,
Loonia
Anyway hope your game goes well.
I did come back a few times when he sort of "happened" to show up and he was still a jerk and a half to me. I tried for the sake of the group to tolerate him, but he had already destroyed any desire in me to put up with him. He even got pissed once when I made a wrong decision in game play that took him out of action and then later he just wouldn't let that go. That was fine. My mind was already made up ... he was just adding finishing nails to the coffin he was putting himself in.
The final straw was him publicly screwing me over in one game. I came back with my hat in hand, had apologized to him and tried to be the better person ... just being a forgiving sort if nothing else. Since the game was already underway for several sessions, I was lost and my character did not fit well, but it was also a game that I knew little about. So ... you could say that I did this to myself. However, he offered no help and I decided not to ask.
From what I hear about him, he went through a bad bout with diabetes and an amputation that was more dangerous and potentially fatal than mine. He lost his left foot and much of his left leg to where he's got to have a prothesis. I doubt he will be coming back, but I have warned the group, including the Security officer who is his friend, that if he comes back, I will not be hanging out with them for the duration.
**Giggles!**
I'm sure it will be just fine. I just have some doubts to how much I know about the game and how well I can run it. We shall see.