Personal Ramblings - Exalted, D&D, etc.
Apr. 7th, 2005 04:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hwangoI'm trying to organize things to run a D&D game sometime in the near future. I've never run D&D before, so this will be a new experience for me. Also, It will be only the second game that I've run at all since the dark days of high school when I was an incredibly bad GM running Palladium games. *shudder*
Anyway, the more I work on the D&D game, the more I tend to think about my Exalted game, and all of the plot points left unresolved when it went on hold. It really had something of a story to it, and I miss working on that story. I hope we can go back to that at some point. Our current schedule for player availability wouldn't support it right now even if all of my players were in the mood for Exalted right now. Still, I miss it, and it feels wrong to have just left the story hanging like I did. I needed a break at the time, though, and wanted to work on NaNoWriMo, too.
D&D seems to be more a game of number crunching than storytelling. Obviously it can still include storytelling, and I hope that my game will, but it just doesn't have the same feel to it. My enthusiasm waxes and wanes a lot these days.
I want to work on my novel sometime, too. It's been months since NaNoWriMo, and I've barely touched it at all. I poked at it when I was trying to cobble something together for the SFS writing contest, but I didn't actually add to what I had. Now that the contest is over I find myself in a storytelling mood. The irony.
Anyway, the more I work on the D&D game, the more I tend to think about my Exalted game, and all of the plot points left unresolved when it went on hold. It really had something of a story to it, and I miss working on that story. I hope we can go back to that at some point. Our current schedule for player availability wouldn't support it right now even if all of my players were in the mood for Exalted right now. Still, I miss it, and it feels wrong to have just left the story hanging like I did. I needed a break at the time, though, and wanted to work on NaNoWriMo, too.
D&D seems to be more a game of number crunching than storytelling. Obviously it can still include storytelling, and I hope that my game will, but it just doesn't have the same feel to it. My enthusiasm waxes and wanes a lot these days.
I want to work on my novel sometime, too. It's been months since NaNoWriMo, and I've barely touched it at all. I poked at it when I was trying to cobble something together for the SFS writing contest, but I didn't actually add to what I had. Now that the contest is over I find myself in a storytelling mood. The irony.
