Ionathus
2023-02-07, 03:14 PM
Tonight's session was going to be my first time DMing in a long time, and it got cancelled this morning - two of our players are sick.
I've been very spoiled for a very long time - near-weekly games for the past 5 years at this point. But the last time I was a DM1 was in May 2022, before we took a hiatus that I thought was only gonna last into mid-fall. I got very busy, players offered to step up and run some side campaigns and one shots, and it was a blast to get to relax and play a few adventurers. But I've discovered that I don't really enjoy being a PC nearly as much as I enjoy being the DM, and I'm losing my mind with the desire to get the adventure back on the rails.
Anyway, the side campaigns ballooned out and took up way more time than I expected, and we're picking up the main campaign two months later than I wanted to. I've been doing so much prep and I'm so excited to jump back in, I know everyone else is too. Running this game for these wonderful friends is one of my favorite things, and actively building this world and setting up the story for the PCs to tell gives me a creative outlet that I've been sorely lacking for, geez, most of a year at this point. Not having it to look forward to has been a real bummer recently.
Like the title says, this rant is very lighthearted. I'm just impatient and anxious, and having to wait one more week is nothing. But it was still frustrating, in a bad-luck nobody's-fault sort of way. Needed to blow off steam somewhere.
Thanks all for reading. Do y'all have any stories of getting to finally pick up a campaign again after way too long away?
1. Outside of a single Monster of the Week oneshot
I've been very spoiled for a very long time - near-weekly games for the past 5 years at this point. But the last time I was a DM1 was in May 2022, before we took a hiatus that I thought was only gonna last into mid-fall. I got very busy, players offered to step up and run some side campaigns and one shots, and it was a blast to get to relax and play a few adventurers. But I've discovered that I don't really enjoy being a PC nearly as much as I enjoy being the DM, and I'm losing my mind with the desire to get the adventure back on the rails.
Anyway, the side campaigns ballooned out and took up way more time than I expected, and we're picking up the main campaign two months later than I wanted to. I've been doing so much prep and I'm so excited to jump back in, I know everyone else is too. Running this game for these wonderful friends is one of my favorite things, and actively building this world and setting up the story for the PCs to tell gives me a creative outlet that I've been sorely lacking for, geez, most of a year at this point. Not having it to look forward to has been a real bummer recently.
Like the title says, this rant is very lighthearted. I'm just impatient and anxious, and having to wait one more week is nothing. But it was still frustrating, in a bad-luck nobody's-fault sort of way. Needed to blow off steam somewhere.
Thanks all for reading. Do y'all have any stories of getting to finally pick up a campaign again after way too long away?
1. Outside of a single Monster of the Week oneshot