Endings.
So good. Best if served with a side of heartache.
We wrapped up our Coriolis campaign this week! Suitably epic, grand scale events, razor thin margins. I left a few major decisions to the dice and that was fun.
I have no idea how many sessions we ran. The Black Ziggurat all but itself was like … 3 sessions? 4? Then a couple in Ship City, two or three for the expedition to the edge of known space, and several more once they got there. It would be a good movie!
Anyway, I’ll take a real ending over a game sputtering out every time. Even (especially) if it’s heartbreaking to say goodbye to these characters.
And because time is linear and I’ll be doing this until my brain doesn’t allow it…
Beginnings!
So hard. So many conflicting priorities. A tiny bit of fear of starting a thing and not knowing if it’ll go the distance. Determining the distance. Figuring out the table size, the players, how to say “no” to folks so you don’t have seven people (again!) at your table. Four or five seems just about perfect for everything I’m thinking about running.
I’m looking to fill 10 weeks between now and the start of April, when a friend takes over with Dragonbane for a bit. Honestly looking forward to just playing for a while! But I’ve got this 10 weeks, too many players, and far too many games I want to try.
Can’t be adventure fantasy, not really. Back to back genre-adjacent games feel weird to me. Can’t be Year Zero again, also feels weird to me. 10 is potentially a long run of a thing assuming we hit every week, but not long-long so that leaves biggies like Pendragon and The One Ring out.
I’m itching to put a PbtA on the table for various reasons, but those feel hard to pull along beyond a half-dozen sessions. Unless it’s Stonetop, another biggie I would love to relaunch someday. But right now my PbtA wish list is: Kult, End Times, SCUP, Root, and Armour Astir.
Or maybe a FitD thing. Dare I say…the OG? Is it time to break out Blades in the Dark again?! Good lord. Is 10 sessions enough? Feels like the claims game needs way more sessions. There’s also Rebel Crown, which has been on my wish list for many years now. Teeth? Maybe?
Then there’s my never-have-I-ever games: Unknown Armies, Triangle Agency, Threadcutters, Household, Cold City, Mythic Bastionland, Miseries & Misfortunes. My recent Spain trip really got me jazzed for Homage to Catalonia.
I’ve already skipped over so so many games that, if I’m being real, I’m never ever gonna play. Maybe at a con or something.
Beginnings, ugh.
