I have been neglecting the blog recently. My own RM campaigns have been on hiatus. My face-to-face game hasn’t been played since Feb 2020, which is no surprise. My VTT game hasn’t been played in two or three months now.
I am playing a druid in a Shadow World RM2 game, and a cleric in a 5e game, so I am still playing, but my group of players and I could not sustain three games running at once.
Now, the Shadow World game is reaching a natural point to take a break, and we will be pausing to pick up my game again.
It is harder to think of really interesting things to write about when you are not planning and running games.
I even skipped a month of the Rolemaster Fanzine. It has been exploring an idea about two extremely dangerous weapons, one slaying to elves and the other to dwarfs. Without the stimulus of the running and planning, it was incredibly difficult to build a gripping scenario.
But, that is all about to change. I am getting my game notes in order and preparing for some upcoming sessions. Hopefully that will spark some interesting topics to put out here on the blog.
“It is harder to think of really interesting things to write about when you are not planning and running games.”
There’s a concept called “lonely fun” where people read roleplaying books they know they’ll never actually play just to get ideas. I do this a lot. I’ve read everything ever published for Shadow World, for example, but only ever ran games set in Jaiman and Emer. I read a lot of books for other games too, and setting specific products. When I can’t play and can’t GM, I keep my creativity up by reading everything I can find that looks interesting.