View From the Bushes

The brief hiatus in activity I've been experiencing seems to be likely to continue until at least GenCon, and filled with the optimism that it may stretch on even longer than that, I've decided to start running another D&D campaign. In order to reduce the time I have to spend preparing, I've decided to run Dungeon's second Adventure Path, and set it in Eberron (man, I love that setting). So far it looks like three of my old friends from college and my brother-in-law are going to be playing. It will be pretty low key -- we plan on meeting once a month on Saturday, so I don't imagine that it will go very fast, but I think it will be fun.

I should have warned those that have no interest in D&D or computer games to just skip this entry, but perhaps it's not too late. Anyway, moving on it's shaping up to be a fairly interesting party. Only one of the guys is 100% sure what they want to play, but tentatively it looks like we'll have a psychic warrior, a monk and a ranger. Perhaps I can talk the final guy into playing a ninja; that would really be the cherry on top of the sundae for this highly eclectic party. In addition to the four characters corresponding to the players, I'm planning on creating a fifth character who will sort of be mine, and serve the dual purpose of somewhat scratching my itch to play, and filling any holes in the party. Of course during actual play, one of the players will take control of this fifth wheel on a rotating basis.

Those of you who were warned at the beginning of the last paragraph to stop reading are probably regretting that you didn't. Of course as this is still nominally a D&D website, the idea that I may talk about that from time to time has certainly occured to you, I imagine. On a related topic, this summer seems to have been a real dry spell for computer games (I'm not the only one who is of this opinion), but the first D&D RTS (real-time strategy) is coming out in September. Early reports have been very solid, so I think that maybe the next game I pick up. Until then, I guess I'll have to limp by on my waning enthusiasm for World of Warcraft and the occasional game of Minesweeper.

I'm a big geek
Ross