Snow is a Beast and Might Hate Me

[juliannos]

I feel like I've been doing a lot recently, even though that's definitely not the case. I am dming this Saturday, which means I've been prepping for that the past few days. It ended up being more than I had planned on, as there are many places the party can go. It also means fighting with my inner perfectionist to keep myself from over prepping. It's a struggle.

I also have been working on my next part of the DA2 replay recap series. It's ended up being way more thought provoking than I expected so the write up has ended up with me doing going down research tangents. It's about half written and I'll probably edit it down some, but hopefully coming soon!

I've also been baking, especially today, and its been kind of a fail. I'm so out of practice with it and this is really the first time I've used my oven for baking so its been a lot of trial and error. My mexican hot chocolate cookies are just... not great. I may need to find a new recipe or maybe I just need more flour - both are completely valid options at this point.

I may also feel more exhausted than I should because I slipped and fell 3 times on Wednesday when I was attempting to get to work. Thankfully I'm not seriously hurt, just some bruises and a scrape on my knee, but I still fell into a snowbank in front of like 5 people. It's pretty funny to think about now, but it was mortifying at the time. Thankfully the soreness is mostly gone and my knee is healing nicely. I'm just not cut out for the snow y'all.

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Comments

[lilladyeva]

Glad your knee is feeling better. I know that feel though there is no snow where I am right now. It waits until later in the season. I once Star Wars DM and he ran for 18 months. We ran across a plot we wanted to chase. When we got on our way he pulled out his gaming notebook, turned to page two and said.
"Here, here is when you should have followed that plot." So I guess the moral of the story is players are unpredictable and no matter how much plot you plan they will always go off in their own direction. I have a tendency to get attached to minor NPCs and make my DM think about what they are doing now and can I get in contact with them and who are they really as a person.

[juliannos]

My session was yesterday and they totally didn't take any of the 3 different paths had set up do we ended up going a completely different route! But I am excited about the path they took and where it's going to lead them, especially since it's not really something the book had planned for them. They also made a new NPC friend that was not originally supposed to be one, so I get to make a new character who's also a wereraven, which is very neat. They always surprise me and I can always use some of the stuff I made later. They're not leaving Barovia anytime soon. 😁