View From the Bushes

So the family campaign was on Friday, and I confess I didn't really have anything prepared, primarily because once I get my writing done for the day, there's hardly any time left anymore and what little there is gets sucked up by WoW... But this didn't bother me too much, because when you've been playing and DM'ing as long as I have, coming up with stuff on the fly is pretty easy. But it did lead me to re-examine the campaign as a whole. I started (as always) with grand ambitions, but things didn't quite work out the way I had hoped. One of the big bumps in the road was when I picked up the Eberron setting and read it. I immediately wanted to start running a campaign in that world, but I had just started a new campaign a couple of months before that and it seemed too early to switch horses already...

But my lack of preperation prompted me to re-examine the question of how much longer the players wanted to go before they would let me switch to Eberron. So I asked, and I was surprised to discover that most of them either didn't care or wanted to switch as soon as possible, because they were tired of their current character. And it was easy enough to allow the rest to transfer their current character so it all worked out in the end, and instead of playing D&D we played cards, or at least they did while I helped those who weren't transfering characters to come up with different characters.

Okay, that was pretty boring, particularly if you don't play D&D, but there you go. Speaking of games, on one of the mailing lists I belonged to the discussion started about how blogs can sometimes turn away customers. I guess Chris Pramas of Green Ronin is a big Bush-hater and blogged about it at some length. A store owner commented that he had some customers who basically bought everything from Green Ronin who told him that these comments had made them stop. So in that spirit I'm going to link to a story that says we only have 10 years before we reach the point of no-return on global warming and call it blatant fear-mongering.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross