And now that I've totally grossed you all out, I'd like to talk a bit about how awesome it's been to get back into roleplaying. I gamed on and off during my 5 year tenure in Palmerston North, but design school kept me busy enough that it was difficult to make anything stick. Even my Exalted game, which I feel was pretty successful while it ran, ended up being shelved due to the pressures of completing my degree and after that I kinda fell out from gaming for a while.
Being back in Wellington has revived my enthusiasm, specifically getting back with ancient gaming monsters of yore, and it's really cool getting to see how added maturity has changed the way we game together in some ways (for a given value of 'maturity', this is me and my closest friends that I'm talking about after all).
At the moment Andy is running Trail Of Cthulhu, which involves a team of investigators in 1930s New York, going up against Things Man Was Not Meant To Ken. The first season was a leetle bit awkward but still enjoyable, mainly because many of us were warming back up to gaming, but then a couple 'episodes' ago it suddenly clicked, and the game really took off, at least for me and I think the others felt the same way. Andy runs a really tight game with excellent atmosphere and story pacing, and I would say the things that improved it for us was more to do with changing it from fortnightly to weekly and the players finding their feet, than any changes he made. As always it's our characters flaws that make them truly interesting and I'm really looking forward to seeing how far my cop's faith in the law can be stretched before he snaps under the pressure of investigating these awful eldritch mysteries.
Once Cthulhu comes to an end I'll be running the players through an Exalted game, which is almost the exact thematic opposite to our present campaign and involves a very anime/Eastern fantasy inspired affair where you run around with cosmic phenomenal power, enormous swords and somewhat silly special moves with names such as Majestic Falling Blossom Star Attack or Behemoth Slaying Special Strike Prana which for added cheese points you yell out while performing an attack and pretend that anime speed lines are rushing around you. I have quite a lengthy overarching campaign roughly planned out, which will be broken up into various series' as we switch between that, more of Andy's Cthulhu game and possibly some Star Wars or In Nomine ran by Jarrod.
The future of gaming in Wellington is looking amazing, so I might have to ban my mates from leaving the city for the next ten years. Seems fair.
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