D&D campaign

[cellio]

This week's D&D game was nifty. The last several sessions have had some very nice scenery and world-building, thanks to ralphmelton. The land in which the characters live bears, shall we say, tight relationship to a certain dragon; we've recently been exploring in "Laryn" (tied to sound) and "Optalis" (left as an exercise). Each area has had thematic magics and thematic inhabitants. Next we are heading to the gorge of fire. :-)

I've also been enjoying the character-level developments. I find particularly striking the divergence between two characters. Liandra (lorimelton's character) has a clear place in the world (that's been known all along) and a place to settle down when "all this is over". Larissa (my character) doesn't; it's pretty much established that she can't go home again, but she also has nowhere to go to -- except that there's been a surprise development (surprise to both the character and the player) that could play out interestingly. I've been trying to play Larissa as being a little sad about the future but trying to ignore it because she doesn't want to be jealous of her friend Liandra; I don't know how successful I've been.

The world in which we're playing is rich, and even if that story line doesn't play out, I can think of oodles of things to keep my character busy for her post-campaign life, and even when the game is over I may try to write some of that. (I've been writing some of her story during the campaign, so this would be a continuation.) I've been having a lot of fun with the creative aspects of this that go beyond game sessions.

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[hopeness.livejournal.com]

Reading this totally made me nostalgic for a bit of role-playing. I've only played a few single-campaign tabletop games, but a group of 20 odd friends and aquaintances and I used to play Vampire:The Masquarade live-action. It was some of the most fun I've ever had. A lot of the people were very artsy dramatic types so they really got into their characters. Unfortunately our "storyteller" now teaches abroad and even the summer sessions we had while he was still in school have gone by the wayside.