Evil Campaign/A-Kon/Wife's Costume

So yeah busy as always.

Been playing our Evil campaign when we can which has been fun so far. They are getting into the military/way part of the story which is leading up to the end (which I'm still trying to figure out what exactly that is). Brother-in-law was in the army and went overseas a while back, and as such he has been asked/volunteered to help me get a handle on ideas for the war/military portion of this campaign. Which to be honest the main reason they are participating/starting a war is because he liked the idea of participating in a D&D campaign with a war in it, so I incorporated that into the campaign they were running. Should be interesting as they are now level 20. But hopefully I can handle it well enough for them to enjoy.

So A-Kon is going on in Dallas on June 6th - 8th, and my cousin also lives in Dallas. He has been down to visit a number of times but I've not gotten the chance to go visit him yet. Well the wife and I finally got a little money put back to make a trip up there to see him as well as attend A-Kon! My wife is super excited because she loves my cousin as do I. Me and him are similar in most things (most of our personality, and our sense of humor), although I prefer women and he prefers men, which makes for some amusing conversations.

Anyway, my wife decided she wanted to cosplay in essence. She dyed her hair the other day for it as well. Tonight she wanted to see how everything looked all together and so I took a picture for myself and for her to get an idea of what it all looked like as we don't have a full length mirror or anything in our house. She assumed I would post it on here and I figured why not as she seemed to like the idea. So here is my wonderful wife wearing her outfit for A-Kon.

My wife Kim in her outfit for A-Kon.

Evil Campaign and Other Ramblings

So yeah as always work and home life are keeping me busy, which is draining my mental energy which I keep trying to reserve so I can work on a post or on my Silver Divinity project. But alas I haven't been able to lately. But enough of that onto my ramblings!

On a side note, my oldest daughter (I have 3 daughters) turned 9 April 6th, and she started Softball practice that following Thursday, which her grandmother paid for as her Birthday gift. I'm not much of a sports person myself, well to be honest I like playing with family and that is it, I don't care to watch it either. But I am excited that my daughter is playing if only for the reason that she is excited herself. She has never really played a sport before so this should be fun, I can at least help some; I don't know a lot but I do at least have some experience, the rest of my family are all major sports fans so I did have to grow up with it.

OK, onto other ramblings! The Evil D&D Campaign has been going well and interesting so far. The party has officially reached level 20 as of Saturday. Their adventures in Limbo went better than I expected, although because of children (there are a total of 7-8 in the house with us which causes just a little bit of a distraction constantly) the puzzles didn't get handled as I intended. But it all worked out, I had to explain and answer a couple of the puzzles myself (this was a new experiment with the in-laws, we don't normally do puzzles like I put together for this session) but they still enjoyed it at least. The rest of the dungeon I didn't get to get finished so it was sort of randomized as far as what was going on which was fun, but eventually they got to where they were ready to escape limbo.

They found a nice old man at the end who silenced the Cleric with a gesture as she started mouthing off to him (the Cleric is my wife incidentally and she actually laughed and didn't get annoyed at me when he silenced her...). The old man was random and pointless and a last minute idea partially pulled from my brother-in-law. I was trying to figure out an appropriate treasure for them to find at the end of this randomness and he requested and really wanted a magic talking sword. For some reason I got stuck on the Chronicles of Amber books when he asked about this; I love those books! So I took Corwins Sword Grayswandir, and Brands Werewindle (he dual wields a longs word and short sword) and turned them into talking swords matching at least some of the descriptions from the books for them. I also took Frakir from the second set of books which belonged to Merlin (well as much as someone can possess a magic sentient object) and gave that to my father-in-law. And the last bit that I didn't explain and they never asked (the kids were acting up a bit at that point) but I did prepare and think out, was that the old man was a guardian between worlds and there was a gateway mentioned in the rooms description as well. This gateway was pointless and they never would have gone through, but I made it so that it was a gateway between realities/worlds/existences/ whatever you want to call it. The gateway actually lead to Amber from the books as well, pointless but mostly for my own amusement

My wife and I are thinking on working on another random project together and I won't go into detail yet as we aren't positive yet, but once we get it figured out more I will probably post something here about it.

And yeah I think this is one of my longest rambling posts so far, and I will end it here with,
Have a good day and thanks for reading.

Home Game and Updates

So yeah, I've been a little behind on most everything lately. Everything has gotten very hectic lately, but hopefully it will all settle down soon. Family having various problems for various reasons that I won't go into (extended family not my wife and children). And I've been having some health issues I'm finally getting looked at which has been making getting things done more difficult. I haven't been able to find time until now to post anything as I have been busy and honestly I've gotten behind in my classes at Pulaski Tech as well. I'm working on getting caught back up in those classes now though.

But enough of me complaining here is some information on what I'm running now.

I've also been working on the Evil Eberron campaign I'm running for my in-laws. They've gotten to level 19 and aren't quite to the end of the campaign yet. We won't get to play for another couple of weeks still, but I've been working on a special random dungeon for them that I'm hoping they will like. It is in essence based in Limbo between the dimensions, and it should have some good randomness going on while they're in there. I'm building a few puzzles and traps for it that I hope they take well. It is a little different from what we normally do, but it should be fun; and I am definitely putting a lot of work into it, which I don't do that often sadly.

Day 28 - D&D 40th Anniversary blog hop challenge!

What's the single most important lesson you've learned from playing D&D?

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I'm not really sure, I don't like questions like this one personally. I've learned how to be more creative I think. When I run a game I tend to pull things out of nowhere, whether it is random creatures or rooms to whole dungeons being built as the characters are going through it with nothing prepared ahead of time.

I've learned the enjoyment of playing a game with people who have similar interests, and the fact that not all people play the same, so two games doing the same exact thing can be completely different from each other depending on who is playing.

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Day 27 - D&D 40th Anniversary blog hop challenge!

If you had to do it all over again, would you do anything different when you first started gaming?

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I honestly wouldn't change anything. Although starting to play at a younger age would have been interesting, I know that no one around me had any interest or even now they don't have any interest in learning how to play. So even if I did learn about the game when I was younger, I wouldn't have had anyone to play it with.

As far as when I did learn, I don't think I would change anything. My in-laws are interesting people for sure, but they are pretty fun to play games with at least. And they are all pretty easy going so learning how to play with them was both fun and easy.

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Day 26 - D&D 40th Anniversary blog hop challenge!

Do you still game with the group that introduced you to the hobby?

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The people who introduced me to role-playing games were my in-laws, so yes I am still playing with the same group of people. They are fun people to play with at least.
I've tried playing with a few other people here and there, and it is always fun but scheduling conflicts always seem to arise sadly.

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Day 25 - D&D 40th Anniversary blog hop challenge!

Longest running campaign/gaming group you've been in.

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As far as how long we played I can't remember exactly, but the longest running campaign I've played in was my Father-in-Laws game where I played my Psion (shaper). She got to level 24 if I remember right.

The longest game I've run personally is the Evil campaign I'm running currently. Been going for a little while now. We took a big break between playing but have picked it back up now.
Currently the party is at level 19, and are not quite close to the end of the campaign. So it could go on for a bit longer. It will also be my first epic level campaign to run as well, so hopefully that will turn out well.

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