Thinkin' about making a whole part of my site devoted to my campaign world, since last nite'z game went so well. It was alot of fun and I can actually see it all coming together. My players aren't just running around in some setting I made up. They're helping to shape it and make it into some deep, detailed world.
Take, for instance, an encounter with a doppleganger. In my head it was really simple. He took the shape of one of their friends. He had his goals in doing so, but it was really, very simple. Through improv and unexpected actions he turned out to be a role that I played alot and he's now been upgraded from some combat situation to a major character and my campaign makes much more sense just because of the choices they made. It makes me feel so good to think that both i still had the ability, after being on and off about role-playing (cuz really i play it in an improv acting kind of way), and just thinking that it was a simple combat with a trick to it, and my friends are so good at playing their characters that we were able to come up with this interesting bit together on the spur of the moment. I didn't just give this opportunity to them, they role-played so well that it just kind of flowed. It wasn't just this encounter, but the whole game went so well, I was left in shock, afterwards.
I haven't thought like this about what could happen and be so happy with my friends and the characters they developed, since the time when Dana Francis played or when I role-played with my sister. When they played, they were so smooth that everyone just followed suit. This time everyone did it. It was so much more kewl! (but this is like acting (they were both drama students, like myself), and role-playing is just like acting only u say what ur doing while u eat cheetos and sit on ur ass; but, still... LOL)
I dunno, I feel good now... Gimme a fuckin' break, bish. hehe
I don't feel like quiting gaming anymore. I remember why I liked it. Just sitting around with friends, half-acting and coming up with such great stories. It's so much fun.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! --or sumpthin' LOL
