Friday, January 23, 2009

Merin's Wausau D&D + RPG Gaming Group February Meetup

I bit the bullet and paid for a new meet-up group.
I'd like to see several games going on a month, enough to build a nice little community of role-players in the area.
Website is at http://www.meetup.com/The-Wausau-Dungeons-Dragons-Meetup-Group/
Joining is free (it only cost me to start it - grr.)

Monday, January 12, 2009

Flexible Scheduling!

As was discussed at this past Star Wars game on January 11th, trying to have a set day to meet is just not working out. Events come up, and most importantly job schedules are so flexible for many people.

In view of wanting a weekly schedule for the game, I propose we move to scheduling the game up to 2 weeks in advance and keep things flexible. On that front we need people to give schedules of when they are available regularly, and for those who do not have regular schedules they need to provide weekly / bi-weekly schedules.

I also put forth that having a "Primary" and a "Backup" date for gaming is a good idea to consider. We each try to find two times that work for our schedule and everyone else's. An attempt to let someone managing the game schedule (most likely me) to shift things around so no one player is shafted or inconvenienced the most.

I put forth the following for me as to when I can game most weeks (my schedule is pretty regular and largely controllable by me) -

Monday - Thursday nights, 6 pm until probably about 11 pm. Saturdays from about 6 pm on. Sundays all day. Friday (and to a lesser extent Wednesday) night is not the best for me. In the not too distant future (a couple months or so) Saturdays all day will be free.

Let's try and get working on everyone submitting schedules so we can start planning games!

Friday, January 9, 2009

Some More Thoughts

Listening to much D&D Podcasts, it really has sunk in for me that we should be looking at knocking out a combat encounter in under an hour, easily.

I'd like to get more gaming groups going, if only because of the two I'm in I'm lucky if the Star Wars one meets, an average, once ever month, and the D&D game is barely over once a month at this point.

I'm toying with the idea of running a Living campaign via the RPGA. Like a Living Forgotten Realms game, for example. Any interest from anyone?