View From the Bushes

Tonight for the first time in at least three months, probably four, I'm going to go play in my friend's campaign. At this point I'm pretty sure that he's inviting me just so that I'll bring my miniatures. That's okay, because if that's the case I can just leave my miniatures behind (not any rares, though) and leave early. This group has a tendency to play through until 6 am the next morning, and if I did that, my guess is that my cold/flu (not sure which yet) which I am almost over would blossom into full-blow pneumonia or something like that, knowing my luck.

I'm not sure if I've described this particular campaign before. At its core it's a multi-dimensional time travel campaign, which ends up, as you might expect, being the "jack of all trades-master of none." Most of the characters (as I recall, remember it's been several months) are D20 modern characters (I play a gunslinger) but most of the recent adventures have been fantasy, primarily because he has a great affinity for DireKobold (and in particular the dynamic scaling) so he ends up running a lot of my adventures. This is, of course, another thing which makes the campaign less enjoyable, having not merely read, but edited and wired up all of those adventures, my familiarity with them is exceptional, resulting in few, if any, surprises.

Despite these (minor) grievances, it's still quite enjoyable to play in this campaign, and I'm definitely looking forward to it or at least the first two hours of it before I'm forced to retire to my bedchambers in order to keep my consumption in check. It sucks to get old. Although I did feel like a kid at Christmas time as I opened up my case of miniatures last night. After the smoke cleared and the plastic was cleaned up, I'm still missing six of the rare figures from the archfiends expansion, but of the 6 I'm probably interested in only two or three of them, so maybe I'll just buy those of ebay, or maybe... just maybe... I've spent enough money on miniatures for the moment and I should just be content, nah...

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross