I am thinking about D&D
a bunch while my groups are on hiatus. Lost Atlantis hasn't played
since May, that campaign basically got replaced with Ostschild the
next month. I do think it's sad that I kind of gave up on the largely
online Lost Atlantis campaign when I got a new local group, but these
things happen. Both of those groups of people and the games I have
run for them have helped me a lot in dealing with Mona's death. I
needed people in my life, to try and kick start some bit of normalcy
for me again.
Now Ostschild is probably
dead. I killed the entire party two weeks in a row. They were killed
by bad luck more than anything else, but with the holidays fast
approaching, and one of the regular players not being able to show
for a few weeks due to work, I talked it over with some of the
players and thought about things some, and I am moving on from B/X,
back to AD&D. B/X is a nice vacation, and I really like it, but
AD&D is home.
This means a likely move
back to my “standard” AD&D campaign setting of Garnia, in use
off and on since about 1983, if I recall correctly. Technically, Lost
Atlantis was also in that same setting, but it was in a newly
discovered lost continent I added to the setting, where it will now
exist forever.
Anyway, that's, more or
less, my year end review for this blog. Nothing catastrophic
happened. I started gaming again, first on Roll20, then in person. I
still mourn the loss of Mona, but it is getting to where it is less
immediate. We start playing in my “new” AD&D campaign on the
8th of January, weather permitting.
