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[Old Gods Dead Gods] Interlude
As a GM, seeing your campaign taking a life of its own is both the most satisfying and most frightening thing that can happen. It’s frightening because you suddenly don’t know if you can keep up with the direction your players are going. But it’s immensely satisfying when the campaign’s new direction is infinitely more awesome than anything you had originally planned. This is what’s happening with the campaign right now.
I figured that I’d take a little break to put into perspective some of the events that will be unfolding in the next couple of weeks. So far we’ve had 7 game sessions, and in these 7 sessions more characters have died than in all of the other campaigns I’ve GM’ed combined.
Originally, the game was envisioned as an exploration game inspired by the West Marches concept – players are in a frontier world where they go out and explore what’s out there. As a group, we played a game of Microscope to define the world, and added a few other characteristics such as the absence of resurrection and magic items being limited to a finite list of 20.
However, now the game has transformed itself into one where the party is in charge of a frontier town and are working their best to expand and manage it. Instead of the West Marches, we’re playing SimCity the RPG… and it’s kind of awesome.
[Old Gods Dead Gods] Exposing the Plot
Last time, the party was ambushed and captured by the Black Hills clansmen. This time, they attempt to turn the situation to their advantage.
The Mining Men showed up at dawn with a cart full of items as payment for the clansmen. After a short discussion, the Mining Men took possession of the party and the four Air cultists and departed.
Roughly halfway back to Lumbeek, Hannah, using her magic, managed to convince their captors that they would move more quickly if the group was smaller. The leader, a greedy man, agreed and left half his force behind as they began marching again on anew day.
The party took advantage of the situation to break out of their bonds and overpower their captors. They then immediately headed south towards Neubourg, the Imperial provincial capital in order to report the events to the governor.
Slight Hiatus
It’s been a busy couple of weeks over here. Last week, my laptop died on me (making me unable to publish that week’s account of the game). It was also a busy week on a personal front as my partner and I purchased our first home.
Have no fear, though. The game is still ongoing and actual plays will return next week once things have settled down a bit!
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