Further ramblings of a self-made pauper

I had forgotten just how much work goes into the preparation of a new table-top RPG campaign. And that's just character generation.

It was my intention to provide players with easy to use hand outs detailing the basics of character generation, and giving the positives and negatives for each archetype. The players could then refer to the Players' Handbook for greater detail.

I have prepared a blank character sheet for each player, and typed up several pages of the bare-bones character generation information. I need to do several more pages, and have no time to do so. In the last week, I have been in for one evening. It isn't enough time, and we start tomorrow.

On the plus side, part of tomorrow night's gaming session will be taken up with tidying up and finishing the latest phase of the current campaign, after which we create Dark Continent characters, and outfit the expedition. Then I shall outline the purpose of the expedition and hopefully we will have just enough playing time to get the expedition to its first overnight camp on the continent itself.

Then I have a week to polish the adventure properly.

I haven't GM'ed for over fifteen years, as far as I can recall. Happily, the Thursday night crew are a forgiving lot.

I came home early and collapsed on the bed, listening to Lone Pigeon. I don't remember most of it, as I dozed off; I shall have to listen again - what I did hear was interesting.

Was rudely awoken at 19.30 by DT, as the games evening was about to start; I staggered downstairs, made coffee, and proceeded to roll abysmally poor dice for the second week on the trot. Never quite managing a critical failure, but not far off.

The dice hate me, but it was a laugh.

I think that I shall now have to start preparing my Dark Continent campaign, as I understand that we only have another two or three sessions left of this phase of bytepilot's D&D. I rather hope that when I am GMing, my dice rolling is a little better, otherwise the players will walk it. Still, a GM has options players don't, so...

Anyway, time for a shower and then bed. I am vaguely hopeful that the temperature will fall a little soon, so I can get back to sleep. This is going to be awkward enough, as the hour and a bit's kippage I had earlier has, of course, woken me up entirely.

Oh well.