Friday, July 9, 2010

Celebrating our 15th Session Mark

I'm pleased to say that my all-girl campaign has now reached it's 15th straight session. Meaning we have been consistently at it for about four months now, playing once a week. For those of you who know teenagers or know the way teenagers play Dnd, this is a rare feat indeed.
This has been the longest running game I've ever DM'ed, and for many of my PC's it has been the longest continuous adventure.
I'm very grateful to have had the dedication of my PC's for running a long-term game has so many benefits that 2 or 3 session campaigns just cannot provide. My improvisational game style coupled with the amount of time I've had as a DM has allowed a beautiful world ecology to spring up. An adventure that just started as a run-of-the mill slay the werewolves scenario has yielded many different countries, races, and cultures. My map grows every session much to my delight, and I keep liking what I find there. The long term game has also allowed a more complex religious system to the world, and a great train of mythology that players discover almost as rapidly as I do.
I never expected to get this far. My player's have loyally progressed almost to the end of a huge overhanging story arc. Our game has actually survived one of the PC's moving across the country. We've had dragons, dungeons, fights, marriages, political intrigue, and even a little time travel.
If you haven't had a long-term game yet, I highly recommend trying to start one. And if you have, then you know the brave new world I'm walking into.
So here's to my PCs! Birdie, Fawkes, Kavin, Isis, Momo, Saelana, and Pel, you are the best friends a Dungeon Mistress could ask for :)

14 comments:

  1. Great work - congratulations on keeping the campaign going! Can you keep it up through the summer?

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  2. I would be interested in getting some commentary from you and any members of your crew that are interested on my game, Synapse.

    I have gone to great lengths to make the game more accessible to female gamers than the currently oriented male market. Opinions of females on my efforts in this regard are highly sought.

    You should be able to get my e-mail via my blogger profile. Drop me a line if interested. I can get you a PDF of the latest Alpha version.

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  3. Kudos to you and your players!

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  4. Cool! What level are they now?

    Have you considered recording a session or two and making an mp3 available? Actual play sessions are fun to listen to. In fact, there are a couple web sites I know of that are devoted to providing them.

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  5. That is great. I have been playing a session with Bliss_Infinite for about 8 or 9 months now and it's a blast.

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  6. that's great news, regular gaming sessions are what keep the hobby alive. here's to many more!

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  7. Yeah, hard to stop after you get that initial momentum going.

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  8. Congratulations on the 15 session mark.

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  9. The session logs are cool, but do you have any cool table stories? Like jokes people made that cracked the table up, or wild plans that succeeded or failed spectacularly? It would be cool to hear stuff like that about your group.

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  10. So actually characters died in your campaign? How do the players reacted to it?

    I hope its just the vacation and you soon will write more :)

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  11. Its cool Celestial7. I must admit that I´ve never seen a group of women playing D&D XD
    What´s your email?
    Would you like to make a friendship with a brazilian guy? XD

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  12. Congrat. Only women in rpg campaign, fantastic.

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