It's Christmas-time! Happy Holidays to all the people celebrating the various end-winter celebrations that they participate in! I love this holiday time and all the pagan based traditions that come along to ring in the end of the long winter. The lights, the snow, the decorations, and the general levity in the air is the best.
But what I'm most excited for this year is my holiday One Shot! I ripped off Liam O'Brien's heist one shot from Critical Role and re-skinned it for the holidays so I can't take any actual credit for the game but its going to be a lot of fun. Its an evil game where the crew is going to be breaking into Santa Clauses workshop. I set it up that they are part of an underground rival mafia because Santa in my game is a crime-lord in diamond mining. The gift giving world wide is his non-profit money laundering business. I know it's hilarious! The main rip off from the Critical Role game is the individual hooks that the players have. I cannot wait for the tomfoolery to begin.
I asked for Vampire the Masquerade for Christmas too so I might be getting into a new campaign from that tabletop game in the near future. It looks like so much fun and I love the grittiness of it. Gothic Horror and vampires from the classic genre. Sign me up. I'm getting into the idea of doing a smaller game something that takes a few months and then concludes and I think the vampire game might be a perfect place to start testing the micro games on. After all I'm pumped for the one shot and I know it inside out and backwards so I'm feeling very confident in it being the best thing I've run to date.
Though if you read Otraria Arc 21 on my d&d page you'll know i recently had to test my powers of immediate creation on a good chunk of game-play and I realized I'm getting a lot better at it. I figure its a combination of the playtime, I'm finally accumulating experience but I've also spent hours watching not only Critical Role but a lot of DM channels giving advice on YouTube. Channels like How to be a Great GM and Matt Coville and Ginny Di and The DM's Lair feature in my day to day watching now. And I suspect the accumulated hours of watching advice is showing at my table. I felt confident in my on the spot improv and given that the gang seemed very engaged I'd say they also agree with that sentiment.
Of course things in my D&D world are shifting. Oscar and Rosalee played by my sister and her husband are moving 5 hours away in March so the game is going to move online. I prefer in person so we will see how that goes. And then in my other game that I run, the Hoard of the Dragon Queen, my friend is moving to Japan in March so I have to either scale the game down for 3 players or find a new fourth. Lots of new year changes but I don't want to give up on my games.
This weekend I'm getting my halls decked and my Christmas spirit active. I already have most of my gifts bought and wrapped so I'm ahead of the curve there and I am looking forward to the exciting parties and happy times. At this point I just have to finish shopping for my partner.
As always guys stay safe and have a great Holiday!
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