Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Simmering in the summer slump
Traditionally, my gaming group has always had what I'll simply refer to as "the summer slump." Around May or June, interest in gaming starts to fade as the desire to be outdoors in the sunshine takes hold. In the past, we've generally put our games on hiatus between May/June and about mid-September. It's usually a couple of weeks after Labour Day that we start getting the gaming itch -- probably because the temperature is starting to cool down and most summer activities have dried up.
Anyway, the summer slump hasn't quite taken hold this year, although we have had our own problems trying to schedule gaming sessions. We actually haven't played Dungeons & Dragons since about mid-March. The next session that we could possibly resume our adventures would be the last Sunday of June, putting a three-month gap between sessions.
However, some of us have been working on getting a Rifts campaign going while the D&D game is on a break. Unfortunately, getting a campaign going from scratch takes a fair bit of work, so we've only just finished characters. I've put together the first session's worth of adventuring, but I figure the Rifts: Escape From Lone Star campaign will need about a dozen or so sessions -- possibly as many as twenty -- to play the whole story out from beginning to end.
I haven't felt a burning desire to get back to the D&D Greyhawk campaign, though. I've been weighing the pros and cons of the campaign over the last few days, and I've seriously been considering putting that game on hiatus again once we've finished the Return to the Dungeon of the Fire Opal adventure. I'll have to check with my gaming group to see what they think, but I know a couple of the players are playing in at least three separate D&D campaigns ... so I doubt they'd complain terribly about one campaign taking an extended break.
I'm not sure with what I would fill the gap that the lack of a D&D campaign would leave. I approached the idea of running a Call of Cthulhu d20 game with my group a few months ago, but only two of the four players would even be remotely interested in something like that. The group isn't really into the World of Darkness games, so that's out. And I just get rolled eyes and foul language when I mention some of the more light-hearted games I have, such as Toon or Kobolds Ate My Baby.
Or maybe I've been going through a phase the last few days that has taken me out of the D&D frame of mind.
Anyway, the summer slump hasn't quite taken hold this year, although we have had our own problems trying to schedule gaming sessions. We actually haven't played Dungeons & Dragons since about mid-March. The next session that we could possibly resume our adventures would be the last Sunday of June, putting a three-month gap between sessions.
However, some of us have been working on getting a Rifts campaign going while the D&D game is on a break. Unfortunately, getting a campaign going from scratch takes a fair bit of work, so we've only just finished characters. I've put together the first session's worth of adventuring, but I figure the Rifts: Escape From Lone Star campaign will need about a dozen or so sessions -- possibly as many as twenty -- to play the whole story out from beginning to end.
I haven't felt a burning desire to get back to the D&D Greyhawk campaign, though. I've been weighing the pros and cons of the campaign over the last few days, and I've seriously been considering putting that game on hiatus again once we've finished the Return to the Dungeon of the Fire Opal adventure. I'll have to check with my gaming group to see what they think, but I know a couple of the players are playing in at least three separate D&D campaigns ... so I doubt they'd complain terribly about one campaign taking an extended break.
I'm not sure with what I would fill the gap that the lack of a D&D campaign would leave. I approached the idea of running a Call of Cthulhu d20 game with my group a few months ago, but only two of the four players would even be remotely interested in something like that. The group isn't really into the World of Darkness games, so that's out. And I just get rolled eyes and foul language when I mention some of the more light-hearted games I have, such as Toon or Kobolds Ate My Baby.
Or maybe I've been going through a phase the last few days that has taken me out of the D&D frame of mind.
// posted by Chris @ 5:40 PM 
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