Okay so lately our gaming groups have hit a bit of a slump. Our every other Saturday live action game set in my friend’s homebrew game system Curses of Night has hit some rough patches. We’ve had members sick (including myself), and others have needed medical treatment for other reasons. We also needed a quiet house for a weekend so my wife could do work for her student teaching. Hopefully the next game will happen and be a lot of fun.
As for our table top group, we have started getting together again after a couple of weeks off so my wife could have some quiet time on those days. My best friend is running a temporary game of Shadowrun until I can get my Eldritch Empires D&D game ready to go – more on that momentarily. We managed to get characters made, though we need to get a couple of people a character before next week. We had to cancel this week due to a player being sick, putting us down to two players; not enough for a game really. We would have had a third except we had no way of getting him to our game site for character creation, and it takes quite a while to make a Shadowrun character, but now we have the time to get his character made so we can play no matter what next week. My wife hopes ot be finished with her more intensive work for her student teaching as well, adding yet another player back to the fold, so hopefully we’ll be coming out of our gaming slump here soon.
As for my Eldritch Empires D&D setting, I have finally pulled myself away from the new Final Fantasy XIV MMO to get some more work done on it. 2 continents are now finished for both the player’s book and the DM book, with a third and final one to go. After that will be the relatively simple job of coming up with the mechanics for the setting like new classes, kits, races, and tweaking some rules here and there. Luckily 2nd edition AD&D is really easy to work with when it comes to mechanics and coming up with new things to add to the game. I honestly hope to be done with the setting books and starting on the actual campaign by the end of next week….of course I hope to have my Botany and Carpentry up to 50 and start on my Relic Weapon for my Dragoon by then as well…which will win out in the end? Probably the setting, I’ve been itching to actually get it done so I can write the campaign. Here’s to hoping anyway.