Various Thoughts re: D&D, random.
11-Aug-02
Lately, I’ve been lacking things to say in my own journal. I comment in others’ journals, and I help out in the support board, but I haven’t been finding much to say on my own thoughts and feelings and worries and such.
Here’s one: I run a weekly d&d game. I worry that it goes too slowly. The last 3 games we’ve played have completely stagnated. I don’t know what to do. I’m not motivating them well. I’m giving them space, but trying to draw them forward with clues, they either (a) split up and don’t follow any clues together, (b) decide it’s too dangerous and don’t follow the clues at all, or (c) try to pick a fight with something even more dangerous than the quest that stands before them.
There’s an NPC who financed their original healing and their meager starting funds. Understand, this person isn’t very powerful himself, either. Basically, his best friend went missing, and the NPC thinks something terrible happened to him. He spent every penny he had trying to heal up the party, and it wasn’t even close to being enough. Plus, they got wounded again right away. That was 5 days ago, game time, and the friend had been missing for a day or so before that.
I gave one of my players a LiveJournal code to use for her game diary, or for whatever, and offered them to the other players as well. So game entries from now on will have to be a bit limited, not that I’ve ever posted a lot of game-related stuff anyway, or may need to be private or protected entries, to protect my players from knowing the upcoming story twists and such.
Transformations
Tender voice, tender lies, tender eyes, tenderize.