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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 3358423" data-attributes="member: 3586">I just ran into Shane F, one of the people with whom I played a lot of D&D when 3e first came out, and before that, in the first campaign I ran in Ballarat. He's kept in touch with Greg M (one of my current players, and my longest-running player), but I fell out of touch with Shane - partly because we rarely are both free at the same time.Anyway, I've given him my e-mail address and phone number, and hopefully he'll contact me. If he does so, I'll put him onto merricb.multiply.com - which is the best way of finding out what I'm doing.However, it's now almost two weeks since Ben R departed for Melbourne and his new life as an Employed Person. He said he'd try to get to the odd Board Game Day, and I hope he does. I'm really going to miss him in the Living Greyhawk game - he's just one of those people who make everything a lot more fun.I run quite a bit of D&D (he says, understating it a lot), but I want to keep the number of players up as much as possible, for often the games I run are the only D&D games they can play in. DMs are few and far between - although we have quite a few in Ballarat at present. Not always running games, though. So, instead of having 6 players I run in 3 games, I'd prefer 18 players in 3 games. Doesn't always work that way, of course, of which more below.Mat may be introducing a friend to the Friday afternoon game in the near future, and I hope that Rich can join us for the Friday night adventure path (once Savage Tide gets underway, in another couple of months. Of course, the changing of the guard continues, with Craig's future someone uncertain - him getting a job in Melbourne after finishing Uni. Ah, the ongoing change of life!Currently, I have 3 regular games and 12 players.RPGA: Sarah*, Daniel*, Mat, Adam**, Rob*AP: Rob*, Adam**, Craig, Martin, Peggy, BradfordUlek: Adam**, Sarah*, Daniel*, Dave, Greg, Nathaniel(*=plays in one other game, **=plays in two other games with me)Still, these numbers are much better than many have. Psion - you're one of the reasons I'm writing this. Listing all the players I've had is fun... and somewhat frustratingly incomplete... and at the mercy of my memory...RPGA: Sarah, Daniel, Mat, Adam, Rob, Ben, Gerard, Greg O., BlakeAP: Rob, Adam, Craig, Martin, Peggy, Bradford, TomUlek: Adam, Sarah, Daniel, Dave, Greg M, Nathaniel, BenGK/Necropolis: Sarah, Daniel, Dave, Gofa, Ben D., Greg M. O.Ulek: Ernie, Sarah, Dave, Grace, Yvonne, Justin, Brian, NathanielXan-Yae2: Shane, Ernie, Garth, Justin, Gofa, Greg M Xan-Yae1: Shane, Dave H., Julia, Jeremy (my brother), Venetia (his now-wife)That's mostly it for my Ballarat gaming over the past 6-10 years. So, 28 players or so? I lose count. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />At present, my gaming life has settled down into a Friday afternoon game that is provided by the RPGA (usually Living Greyhawk), a Friday night game that is provided by Paizo (Age of Worms), and a Sunday afternoon campaign that I write myself (Ulek). Friday afternoon is weekly, the rest are fortnightly.During our brief conversation, Shane was getting really excited at the thought of playing Neverwinter Nights with me... which is funny, because last month I caught up with a few friends in Melbourne I hadn't seen (or played RPGs with) in over a decade, and they were saying the same thing. Now, NWN isn't really a replacement for D&D in my mind - and I have more issues than most using it, due to my power restrictions (solar power isn't great for extended computeer use) - but it seems to be gaining currency for the D&D-lovers who aren't really into World of Warcraft-style gaming. Of course, it may be more a mind-experiment rather than something that actually happens.I'm fairly happy with my games at present. Age of Worms has 4 more sessions to run, and I really like running 19th level PCs. Ulek is going well, and the LG game is in the Red Hand of Doom. Cool! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I'm not playing any D&D games, unfortunately. Although I'm a born DM, I do like to get on the other side of the screen from time to time. I am playing 1/month in a Mutants and Masterminds game, which gives some good roleplaying, but the system often frustrates me. (Personally, I think the damage system is bunk).Cheers!</blockquote>

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