Re: OOC: Table Talk 2
Hello folks!
Hopefully life is treating you all well. As for myself, the last few months have been really good.
On the gaming front, this past summer I ran a Kids-Only (ages 10-14) 5e D&D mini-campaign at the local game store. This game was loosely based on the excellent cooperative board game Forbidden Island and was a lot of fun. Table size for that game ran from 5-10 players and those kids really kept me on my toes! Running games for kids is a lot of fun because they don't approach the game the same way as adults. Lots of outside-the-box thinking and you need to be really good at improv to keep the game moving.
I also wrapped up my 18-month 5e D&D Tomb of Annilhilation campaign, in which the players were successful in foiling the machinations of the notorious lich Acererak and ending the Death Curse that had plagued the lands. I ran that campaign under the Adventurers League format, and over the course of the campaign over 40 players ran through that adventure! We did have a fairly steady crew of 4 players, but having new players drop-in/drop-out kept things pretty dynamic.
I was able to wrap up the last of my PbP games, Realms of High Adventure, earlier this month in what hope was a satisfying conclusion to a Basic D&D game that had been running for 3 years and which had started as a "one-shot". In the end, the players prevailed against the Red Hand of Doom and prevented their warlord from summoning Tiamat into the vale and visiting certain death upon the citizenry of that far-flung realm.
On the non-gaming front, my family completed the South Carolina Ultimate Outsider challenge, in which we visited all 47 state parks! It tooks us a little over two years to visit all the state parks and was a very memorable adventure consisting of camping, hiking, kayaking, mountain biking, fishing, swimming, horseback riding, body-boarding, and just sitting back and enjoying the great outdoors.
I also got orders a couple of weeks ago, wherein we will be moving to San Antonio, Texas in January! We're really excited about this move and the new opportunities it will present. I think this will be my last assignment in the Air Force and we will be putting down roots in Texas. I have 23 years in the Air Force and this assignment should bring me to 25-26 years of military service. Air Force basic training is in San Antonio and there is something fitting about ending my military career in the same place where it began. Texas is also a really good place to retire and has good job opportunities for both me and my wife. Excellent schools for my kids too, who are both now in middle school.
Obviously most of my focus is on moving right now and as a result, I won't be doing much gaming in the next few months...but have definitely been thinking about what I want to do next! Lots of ideas to be sure, but need to sort out our move first.
At any rate, like I said up front, I hope all of you are doing well and the dice roller has been cooperating lately!
:)
Shane