Last night, I re-join the group I played with in a four year AD&D [Affiliate Link] campaign, Graveyard of Empires, Wednesdays on Roll20. We transitioned to Stars Without Number [Affiliate Link], in the campaign A Plague of Angels, after the conclusion of the AD&D [Affiliate Link] campaign. I had too many life things going on and stepped away last year. I will pick up with the same character I had. I guess some other players who came and went either played him or the party used him and he leveled up. He also has a clone running around that is a level higher and with different physical stats. I look forward to getting back into the swing of things. [Companion podcast episode here.]

Sunday I resume my AD&D [Affiliate Link] campaign on Roll20 that went on hiatus 2 year ago this past December. The players are the GM and other players from the Wednesday night game. It is set in my campaign world in an area called The Broken Lands. Coincidentally, I’ve been playing in a B/X game in the official Mystara based Broken Lands setting, The Orcs of Thar [Affiliate Link] , on Mondays. I had no idea that TSR had its own setting called Broken Lands.

I’ve spent the past few days organizing the notes I have in various text files into a Wiki on CampaignWiki.org. This has made things much more organized and I am refreshed on many things.

My biggest struggle with my campaign is verifying the in game date we left off. If I made a note of it, I’m not finding it.

There will be 3 new players bringing the total players up to 7. One of the new players will have a monk, so I’m making some notes to fit him into the setting. Another has a ranger, and the third is playing a magic user subclass for which I’ve only got the basic outline and a few spells, the Vexillologist that I first posted about on my blog nearly four years ago. This will force me to finish it and refine it in play. I hope to share it.

I’ve also organized the player notes and GM notes in Roll20 with a Player’s TOC and GM TOC that I’ll discuss in my Friday Twitch stream on Roll20 For Beginners. [It’s related to my YouTube series, Roll20 For The Absolute Beginner.]

I recommend planning the TOCs to easily build them as you grow so you can make them look neat and organize information in a logical fashion to find it when you need it. My goal is to be able to play with minimal reference to physical notes & books.

One of my players wants me to stream my AD&D game to Twitch. If all the players agree, it is relatively easy to do. We use Discord for audio and I’d sign into the game as a player, or make a second acccount to sign that into and show the map, etc. I’m not sure how interesting it would be. I had planned on recording things for my own use, as I like to use it to improve my GMing.

Tonight was fun and now to wait and see what Sunday’s session brings.

I’m hoping to have something to talk about on the podcast more regularly. My time spent with a change of pace and backing off some things has been good.

I also need to get back on track with my monthly PDFs, as March’s didn’t get done, and April hasn’t been started. I foresee some changes to my Patreon when I get back on track with it.

The card game got interrupted big time with the pandemic situation. I wasn’t able to playtest the current test deck to ensure it works, as Gary Con went from live to virtual. Also I can’t get fulfillment of printing as some printers of cards are shut down due to lockdowns. I think I’ll just put it on DriveThru Cards with the free art and get the word out that way, and will do a Kickstarter for the version with the art I’m having made. I’ll revisit this and settle it once things return to a more “normal” state of commerce, etc.