DnD and a blog update

Allright! I finally remembered my Blogger.com password. It'd been so long I'd kinda forgotten what it was. Hard to believe it's been five months since I've published.

Got a group of 5 other players together and played 4th edition DnD this afternoon. We spent about four and a half hours doing it. It was fun, but it takes a long time to play, and so we only got through two encounters after all the initial introductory stuff. And since we're all pretending to be grown ups (I'm deeply suspicious of those who might not just be pretending) we don't have much time in our regular lives to get together and do this kind of thing. So, the plan is to meet next month and play again.

I ran this particular game, and frankly I'm exhausted right about now. It feels like I spent a ton of prep time getting ready for this afternoon, only to have it be over way too fast. I would gladly do all that prep again, but my hope is that things will go more smoothly next time and not take as long. It seemed like everyone had a blast. Once we get the hang of the rules I'm sure things will move along faster and we'll be able to focus more on harassing the various elves and dwarves in the party.

I was hoping to get some story inspiration from our play experience, and I suspect I may have. It'll just take some time to percolate through my brain. I don't know how much of it will be usable, because all I can remember right now are the funny bits:

I now have newfound respect for dwarven holy water. 'though the jury is still out on what the 'proof' of that particular drink would be, and exactly how fast it would put you under the table.

The Gnome in the picture is from a screen grab of the DnD 4th edition introduction cartoon that Wizards of the Coast put out, edited to be usable as a paper miniature.