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My gaming group probably thinks I'm schizophrenic, but I'm sure they're used to it by now (well, aside from Rich, who hasn't known me long enough). It was only a few days ago that I suggested to them that we take a break from our Dungeons & Dragons campaign, and now I've done a complete about-face and I've been working my ass off on gaming stuff. I worked through the outline for three sessions of my upcoming Rifts: Escape From Lone Star campaign last night. I spent a couple of hours cutting out little cardboard representations of various creatures from the Monster Manual and various Dungeon Magazines. I've been scouring the Internet in my quest to build the perfect dungeon master's screen, a feat that is much harder to accomplish than it sounds. And not only am I not giving up running my long-standing Greyhawk campaign, I'm looking at recruiting new gamers for either the main group or an offshoot group.

For instance, Rawl seems to be all over this idea of Horizon: Mechamorphosis, but the game's not out until sometime this month (assuming the publisher meets its own deadline). So Rawlio is looking at playing D&D again while he's waiting for me to get the game and run it. I'm trying to find a way to allow Sean to play his 4th level wizard, Ander Spellweaver, again, and the solution is probably to have a small group that meets once a month on some Saturday or Sunday morning/afternoon when Sean is in the area. Rawl can fall into either group. It really just depends on how often he wants to play (and with whom).

So it's entirely possible the Sunday night group will have an additional player, or maybe not. We'll have to wait and see.

Oh yeah, and I've been thinking about D&D miniatures the last couple of days. I'd like to spice up our combat by getting minis or cardboard cut-outs of monsters and running our sessions' combats on grid paper and maps.

Whatever it is, something has got my creative gamer juices flowing.