Thursday night gaming

Well, I'm running this substitute Thursday Night one-shot this week. I've decided to adapt 1) the first "scene" of "Burnt Offerings" from the first Paizo adventure path, except converting the "swallowtail festival" to a Christmas festival, and Sandpoint to Snowpoint or something. The goblins will be furry little gremlins or frostlings or something like that. They will be leaving plague around too; so after the frostling attack, I will migrate to an adaption of "Hollow's Last Hope" except the "worg" lair will be Krampus instead, Santa's rival. Some of the players have expressed a keen interest in some Christmas theming. One player wants to adapt a gnome to be one of Santa's elves, and another player wants to use a warlock with cold-themed spells to be Jack Frost. 

I've kinda shrugged and said sure to everything here. This is just a one-shot. I don't care that much. I want it to be fun, in fact, I want it to be fun enough that there's some interest in me possibly running a "real" campaign at some point in the future. But in that case, I will not go with the anything goes stuff. What I can tolerate in a one-shot and what I can run in a campaign are two very different things. For a campaign, I want to set the tone and have limits on stuff in the setting. There are a bunch of really goofy ideas in 5e and even more in 5.5e that I wouldn't want people playing, because they're dumb—or at least, they wouldn't fit the tone of any campaign that I'd be willing to run.

Anyway, this is just a quick short update. I'll probably not post another one until after I run it. Then I'd like to post one more time over the weekend before heading out of town for the holidays, during which I don't intend to post anything at all, because I'll be too busy and don't want to try and post from my phone because that'd be terrible. 

I did, however, finish the actual adventure of "Seven Days to the Grave." I haven't finished the whole book, although I likely will tonight, but I did finish the adventure, which is of course by far the biggest chunk of the book. And I started packing up a few physical books to take with me this weekend when I leave. I'd like to finish the novel I'm reading before I go, though, and take another one instead. 

I also binge-watched Wednesday, which has two seasons as of right now. What a surprise and delight show that ended up being! I didn't really expect to like it, but in fact, I very much did after all. Too bad season two just dropped a few months ago; it'll be at least another year or two before season 3 will be available, I'm sure. I think I needed a break from reading. I don't want to slip back into frittering away all my time on line, but I needed a break after all the crap going on at work, and this ended up working out perfectly.