I didn’t get any decent photos, but last night’s DW game was really damn fun.

I didn’t get any decent photos, but last night’s DW game was really damn fun. I am particularly enjoying the vibe of this campaign, which is so far very traditional on the surface, but with a strong undercurrent of mystery and surreality. It should be a good lead-in to the bizarre/horrifying stuff we have planned for the summer. 

Other notes from last night:

We had a new player who had only played Pathfinder before, so there was the normal breaking-in process that happens with that. But he was a good sport and seemed eager to learn this new style of play. 

I’m trying this new storytelling technique where I bookend each session with similar narrative gimmicks. So, for the first session, I did a “Though it is entirely beyond your perception…” lead-in about a mysterious king, dressed in red and sitting on an onyx throne, deep in some unknown cave. I then ended the same session with the exact same scene, but with the next few seconds added-in (the king looks up and says something cryptic to the audience). 

I did the same thing with the second session, which I began with a speech about how rumors are like currency, and then proceeded to tell the party of some rumors they could use to their advantage in the session, as well as a rumor that was getting them into trouble at that exact moment. I then ended the session with the same rumors speech, leading to a rumor revealing something threatening on the horizon. 

I’m enjoying this little bookending narrative technique. It creates narrative consistency and has a call-back quality I enjoy.

Here’s to the next session! Thanks to everyone who came out: Daniel Fowler Marcus Centurian Russell Benner Jeff Burke Kyle McCauley and new guy, Christopher.