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I haven't made an End of the Year post because I won't dignify 2024 with it and don't have any hope for 2025.
Still alive. So there's that.
After cancelling five planned roleplaying game days for my current bimonthly retro science fiction campaign, because of illness, exhaustion, stress at work, and another gaming group getting precedence, I finally said to my players, "if not now, then when?" and we agreed to play today.
I had one very complex adventure planned which demanded sketching a planetary system, a planet about to be Terraformed, create details on the terraforming mechanisms in that setting, creating a bunch of NPCs (allies and rivals of the PCs and some bad guys who want the project to fail), a good plan of the space station where most of the action takes place, and, of course, re-working the combat system for better playability. On Saturday, looking at the preparation already done, I decided "nice project, but not for today" and (metaphorically, in case this is in doubt) rolled on GM-ing to come up with a nice simple scenario. Roll succeeded.
So today I have sent the characters on a training course in using space suits and moving in free fall, opportunities for roleplaying, fun was had by everyone, and one of the group found their space suit acting out, managed to make it back (less of an action scene that I had hoped, I had played the instructor too safety aware for drama), and found that it had been sabotaged.
They started to investigate, but really this was just to get them back on track and to tie into a later story, so I had their employer order them back, legal would take care of things.
Now they have to fly to a research station out in the hills to pick up a report on their next mission (the terraforming station) which should have been ready days ago but was possibly forgotten by the mad scientists working there (they probably were all off spelunking instead of working anyway), and which was to be created by an experimental AI system. So they would sure be better put their questions to the mad scientists in person, weren't they?
We had breakfast, spend most of the day with the training scenario and the short investigation, then ordered Indian food (good), and they got their next mission and wondered why their boss was not in office and an unknown guy with a too-pretty face and too-expensive suit was filling in for him.
My preparation will easily cover the next session. I might fill in some details (NPC stats, floor plans, maps, ...). Or write a small batch to automate NPC generation (yeah, sure). And if I do no more prep at all, it will still be good as it is.
Still alive. So there's that.
After cancelling five planned roleplaying game days for my current bimonthly retro science fiction campaign, because of illness, exhaustion, stress at work, and another gaming group getting precedence, I finally said to my players, "if not now, then when?" and we agreed to play today.
I had one very complex adventure planned which demanded sketching a planetary system, a planet about to be Terraformed, create details on the terraforming mechanisms in that setting, creating a bunch of NPCs (allies and rivals of the PCs and some bad guys who want the project to fail), a good plan of the space station where most of the action takes place, and, of course, re-working the combat system for better playability. On Saturday, looking at the preparation already done, I decided "nice project, but not for today" and (metaphorically, in case this is in doubt) rolled on GM-ing to come up with a nice simple scenario. Roll succeeded.
So today I have sent the characters on a training course in using space suits and moving in free fall, opportunities for roleplaying, fun was had by everyone, and one of the group found their space suit acting out, managed to make it back (less of an action scene that I had hoped, I had played the instructor too safety aware for drama), and found that it had been sabotaged.
They started to investigate, but really this was just to get them back on track and to tie into a later story, so I had their employer order them back, legal would take care of things.
Now they have to fly to a research station out in the hills to pick up a report on their next mission (the terraforming station) which should have been ready days ago but was possibly forgotten by the mad scientists working there (they probably were all off spelunking instead of working anyway), and which was to be created by an experimental AI system. So they would sure be better put their questions to the mad scientists in person, weren't they?
We had breakfast, spend most of the day with the training scenario and the short investigation, then ordered Indian food (good), and they got their next mission and wondered why their boss was not in office and an unknown guy with a too-pretty face and too-expensive suit was filling in for him.
My preparation will easily cover the next session. I might fill in some details (NPC stats, floor plans, maps, ...). Or write a small batch to automate NPC generation (yeah, sure). And if I do no more prep at all, it will still be good as it is.