One of the things I've been thinking about the last week and a half or so, in between bouts of abdominal pain and other health-related issues, has been the gaming groups. Both gaming groups have been playing the fantasy noir rpg, The Edge of Midnight, the last little while. While I've been enjoying myself tremendously with the game, and the two groups have played as regularly as they can manage, it's a weird gaming set-up. The Friday night gaming group (with the exception of last night, see below), is off for the last four weeks of December, so I have missed playing with them. They've been enjoying The Edge of Midnight campaign very much to this point, have gotten the "feel" of their characters, and have managed to get into the sensibility of the noir genre to this point exceedingly well. I'm looking forward to resuming that when we get into the new year, and this will give me some time to plot a few things out for the gaming group over the next couple of weeks or so, and that sort of thing.
Last night, the Friday nighters decided to come over and cheer me up somewhat, and I had a pretty good evening for the most part. "We've decided to come out and cheer you up, John," was SteveB's line when they arrived, "and so to distract you a bit, you're going to spend the rest of this evening creating our Hellas characters with us!" For those who don't know, Hellas: Worlds of Sun and Stone is a science fiction rpg that is based on Greek myth and legends with some interesting twists thrown into it. And that's exactly what we did. I'll be posting more about the Hellas character generation stuff with the Friday nighters at some point later today or perhaps tomorrow, but suffice it to say I had a pretty good time, and SteveB, Kathy, Nick, Tom, and Joanne came up with some interesting characters for the game.
And then there's the Sunday gaming group. Because of Real Life(tm) concerns, we haven't gamed since the beginning of December, and are planning to get together tomorrow and possibly the Sunday after (depending on everyone's plans for the holidays). While the Sunday gamers are playing The Edge of Midnight as well, their enjoyment of it has been...mixed, to say the least. While both
I guess when it comes right down to it, the two gaming groups have different sensibilities when it comes to roleplaying. In the meantime, we'll see what the future of the two gaming groups brings...