A journey through a land of fantasy…

A little over a year ago, I began a Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 campaign, with five players that worked at the same company I do.  Previous campaigns that I had either played in or GMed myself were pretty stock — a party of people running around, slaying monsters, rescuing damsels, discovering artifacts, and raking in phat loot — so I wanted to create a more coherent world, one where things happen that aren’t necessarily relevant to the player characters, where things might completely fall apart and the player characters are helpless, but especially one where they might actually come out of nowhere and save the day.  I especially wanted the players to feel that they were actualy playing people rather than characters: people who might be adventuring right now, but have families and friends, histories, and personal goals that might conflict with what the party wants.

That was the main goal.  It’s a year later now, and the world and the game has grown to be more than I had ever dreamed of when I first started.  I am creating this journal to record as much of this campaign as I can — not only the world that I created, but the things that the players have done, ideas I have for future game sessions, and underlying plotlines that the players may never uncover. 

The goal of this journal is not only to share this with anyone interested, but also to hopefully encourage interested people to post feedback, ideas, and suggestions for the things that I am doing.  I find that bouncing ideas off my friend Bob (who wasn’t able to commit to playing in this campaign) often results in him suggesting bigger, better things, and I thought that maybe more exposure and feedback could help even more.

I heartily thank anyone and everyone who takes the time to read any of this journal, and I hope that you enjoy it enough to return.