This is episode 11 of my RPG podcast here on its microblog home.

Today is Monday.

We had a nice rainstorm early this morning here in Dallas and it really cooled things down quite a lot.

I have a very busy week coming up.

It started yesterday.

We got up and took our little sheltie dog for a nice nature walk at a nature preserve and then in the afternoon we played our D&D 5e campaign from 2 till about 5.

I cut the game a little a little less than an hour short because I was kind of tired and the game was going really well and I was I was very pleased with the role-playing quality from the players and their very ingenious use of their skills and abilities and I was just having a little little trouble keeping up with them because I was tired and I didn’t want to shortchange the adventure.

I could feel that urge that you know you get sometimes when you’ve got maybe an hour left to play you’re like I feel like I should rush them toward the ultimate bad guy at the end but I don’t want to do that.

I don’t want to rush them toward that.

I want this to be a really interesting investigative session where I’m patient and I let the players discover the clues and all that kind of thing so I held off on that.

I just gave myself a little more time so we’re gonna play tomorrow night, Tuesday night.

We’ll play a little bit more of this.

We’ll probably play for two and a half or three hours tomorrow and see how much more we get done but this gives me a chance to kind of reset.

I’m not retconning anything.

I’m not reacting to try to thwart the players because I feel like they’ve discovered too much or whatever.

The truth is I just didn’t have a great idea of where to take it from where they ended so this gives me a little bit more time to think and plan about possibilities.

I was very happy with my own DMing ability yesterday because I was able to play one of the non-player characters I think in a logical way that really flowed with the actions of the player characters so I didn’t railroad the player characters.

I didn’t force this non-player character to do something illogical just to make the game work.

I thought about this non-player characters being an intelligent person and how would he react to what they were doing and that has made this session, this game, a lot more interesting to everyone involved I think.

Leaves me a lot of possibilities as DM and opens up a lot of possibilities for some excellent action from the players so I know that’s all very unspecific but I don’t want to be specific at this point.

Anyway I’m looking forward to playing tomorrow night and during the day tomorrow and maybe later tonight after Aikido practice I will have a little time to think more about what what could possibly happen tomorrow.

Options, I think.

I want options so yeah.

What else is up?

So that was busy yesterday.

It’s now Monday.

I have Aikido practice tonight.

Tomorrow night we’re playing D&D and the next night I’ve got Aikido practice again and then I’m going out of town on a skateboarding trip for about three days and I’ll be back Sunday.

We’ll see.

I mean I could get up early Sunday morning and drive home from Austin and then depending on how I’m feeling I don’t know you know we could even play D&D next Sunday.

I’m thinking that might be an option.

I’m not sure.

Then I’m taking that next Monday off just to kind of have a day of rest and not do much of anything that day honestly but that’s what’s going on in my world of role-playing games.

I hope everyone has had a chance to get some RPG playing in and just enjoy your life.