Session 26, Part 2 - On the way!

 Wow!  It has been much longer than I thought it was since I last updated this blog.  My sincere apologies on that.  I will push to get back on schedule so that I’m posting the last session just before we play the next session [which will be this Saturday, January 22, 2022].  Clearly that will not happen this month as I’m typing up Part 2 of Session 26 now and we are about starting Session 28 in three days, but I hope to have everything sorted out by the March game.  My turn to run for my weekly group came up, so I’m juggling writing for two campaigns right now, hence the delay getting things sorted.

I did get Draft D of Book I of Adventures in the Green done.  Rewriting text for conciseness [plus moving some monster-related text to Book II] helped shave three pages off the total for the book.  Page count is now 65 digest-sized pages, including the front matter.  I’d like to shave another page off the total to get the page count down to a multiple of 4 for ease of printing, but that will have to wait until I complete the Draft D edits to Books II and III.  The extra time between edits on a particular book allows me to see the text more freshly when I edit, so I see what is actually there and not what I think is there, a well-known issue when editing your own writing.

More later - I need to get 26 Part 2 typed up!

Change in the Blog's Purpose

I started this blog as a place to post some story telling with photographs of Lego minifigures.  After the first story arc, I was at a bit of a loss as to which way I wanted to go next, so I let the blog fall fallow for a while.

In the meantime, my plans for writing my own version of the original D&D rules from 1974 got pushed forward.  I decided that using the world I was just hinting at in this blog would be a good place to test out my rules and make adjustments to them.  I also had a gaming group that was already transitioning from one set of rules to another, so I hijacked that process [being the GM and all].  There were some other factors, like the player whose character was going to be center stage for the next story arc had to drop out of the group for a while and I had nothing else ready.

So for the next while, this blog will post session notes for the test campaign along with observations on what rules issues we ran into with the 3 LBB version of the rules and how I'm fixing them.  I want to eventually get back to the photography story, but that will be a while as I either need to expand my selection of minifigs or paint up my fantasy miniatures and start using those.

I hope you find the session notes detailing the adventures of a small group of outcasts adventuring in lands similar to the Holy Roman Empire of the 1500s but different in several important ways.