Woohoo! New campaign kicked off!

[DungeonmasterCal]

Last night, I ran the first game for the Grups (grown ups, for those not familiar with the Star Trek episode "Miri") in nearly a year. I've run less than a half dozen games for my son and his friend over the last 11 months, but none for the Grups.

After suffering severe creative burnout and then a bad wreck and a long recovery, I started my Persian-flavored swashbuckling game last night. Despite an hour long delay from tornado sirens and being a bit rusty running a large party (8 players) everyone seemed to have a really good time and the campaign was off to a good start.

I credit the community here at ENWorld for helping keep me informed, interested, and even intrigued enough to take the helm again as DM after a long absence. If not for my multiple visits to this site each day, I might have drifted away and let the burnout just keep me from jumping back in the saddle.

Thanks, ya'll!

 

[mythusmage]

So, when's the first story hour installment?

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

Heh...I'm too lazy to write up one of the massively detailed story hours that everyone else does. Would a brief synopsis count as a story hour?

 

[ThirdWizard]

A new campaign is a beautiful thing, all those possibilities before you.

 

[IronWolf]

Congrats on getting a new campaign started! Good to hear it has started off well and will hopefully continue to be fun for good long running!

 

[Henrix]

Congratulations! Persian swashbuckling sounds fun! (Why haven't I thought of that!)

 

[the Jester]

Hey, sounds like you've got a good start and a cool concept. Let us know how it goes.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

Congratulations! Persian swashbuckling sounds fun! (Why haven't I thought of that!)

I'd been wanting to run a maritime game for a long, long time. But I just couldn't seem to find the right "vibe". I began working up a campaign based on the explorations of Xeng He's fleet, but that sorta fizzled. Then, I was watching this really awful (IMHO) anime' show called "One Piece", and a tiny bit of it inspired me. Then, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.'s "Sinbad" came on the next day, and suddenly, I had it. Take the teeny bit of usefulness I gleaned from "One Piece", move the swashbuckly from European flavor to Persian, and voila!

I didn't insist on the PC's all being Arabian or Persian. I figured being sailors, they could've come from anywhere. I just wish this one player would STOP naming his characters after comic book writers and artists. He is utterly incapable of not doing so, it seems. I'll kill him first.

 

[Agamon]

So, you have a pirate in your group named Brian Michael Bendis?? That's just odd.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

So, you have a pirate in your group named Brian Michael Bendis?? That's just odd.

Nope, Walt Simonson.