I left work early on Friday because I had been coming down with a major cold, or even flu or something, and felt miserable. I actually felt pretty miserable all weekend, but I still went to D&D on Saturday afternoon anyway, and I went to church on Sunday afternoon anyway. I stayed home yesterday from work, although I probably didn't really need to; yesterday was a major improvement on the weekend.
Anyway, it was an interesting session. No combat, hardly any rolls at all. My character went on a date, fer cryin' out loud, which is not really my normal way of playing D&D. But my friends' wife is running this one, so I guess it's a little more... feminine... than most games I've played.
Not that it wasn't fun, it just wasn't really what I expected. I actually enjoyed it a lot with the exception of being just a little worried that I was hogging the spotlight too much.
More to the point, the guy who hadn't confirmed did at the last minute, and he did show up. But I did make my pitch anyway to the other couple after he left. I think it's obvious that we'll have him and his adult son, who are the two relatively flaky ones, be flaky on occasion. The middle-aged dad is less flaky than his son, but both of them are always at risk of not showing up, sometimes with very little warning. Next time that happens, I'm going to text just my friend and his wife and see if they still want to meet anyway and I'll start up a smaller mini-campaign, one shot or even just an alternate campaign that will admittedly meet rather more infrequently. That said, I don't know that it needs to be more infrequently. Even without the last minute flakiness, it's difficult to get them on the schedule in the first place.
They were on board with this. We didn't make any specific plans, but we did agree that this is a good plan. I'm going to have some stuff getting ready in my back pocket so that if this does happen when we are supposed to meet next, I can pull this out of my back pocket.
And I'm almost certainly going to go with the Cult of Undeath routine. Which means, I may need to pull the Carrion Crown read-through ahead, and actually read those rather shortly!
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Other than that, I've played a bunch of Old Republic this weekend too. I finished Anstal Tane, my Second Wave Scoundrel, so he becomes the third Second Wave character to move into semi-retirement, i.e., I've finished the class story with him. Hutran Thanatos and Taul Kajak, coincidentally both Mirialan green people—one operative and one Jedi sentinel—are the other two. All three of them are working on becoming backup crafters too; Hutran is already a biochem crafter from when I thought I might delete Phillippion, and Taul is coming along nicely as a artifice crafter. Anstal already picked up, although just barely started, cybertech.
The next second wave character to finish will be Vant Galaide. He's already max level, and only has three planets left to do. Since he's max level, I just do the class stories and skip everything else. Four hours or so of play will get him done, I think. I think I'll have Vant do armstech as a backup crafter. The next highest level characters are actual Third Wave characters; Mirabeau Tane the cyborg gunslinger trooper and Gael Heckett, the cyborg powertech smuggler are both in the sixties. Should I do them next, or should I let them "rest" and finish up some other second wave character? That's what I guess I need to decide.
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