Mixed Bag of a Year
To say the least.
This was my last full year as a landed baron in the SCA, so I’m “retiring” into more gaming. Pretty much the only game I talked about over the last year was my much-anticipated Season 3 of the Black City Vikings campaign. It never got off the ground. More or less DOA - too many people said they’d be there, and then only two actually showed up.
I took some advice and started looking for gamers rather than SCA folks to fill the seats around my table. It’s a little leaner, but I started a new Stonehell Dungeon campaign during the holiday season, which is probably the worst time of year to launch a new D&D game. I’m running it with B/X. It was designed for Labyrinth Lord, back when that was the darling of the OSR, so it fits together well. I’m using OSE books at the table, though, because using the 1981 originals feels pointlessly, and potentially, destructive to those artifacts. We’ve gotten two sessions in so far, and it’s going well: a good mix of older players returning to the style and younger players who actually prefer it. A couple of veterans of my previous campaigns, but mostly new blood.
Tim Kask died. That pretty much signals the end of an era. I only knew him through social media, but we got along well. We shared a lot of values. I respected the hell out of him even when I didn’t fully agree with him.
My father-in-law died too. We found out yesterday. He lived alone and hadn’t answered calls or texts for a couple of days, so the sheriff did a wellness check and found him dead. He’d been planning to sell the house in the spring and move into assisted living. He’d had a couple of strokes over the last few years, so it made sense—but he never wanted to leave the house he built and raised his family in. So maybe this is a win for him. He got to end things on his own terms.
Rest in peace, Martin La May.
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