One of the reasons why I don't post all that frequently anymore is that the work load of my job has increased. That is not all bad news, as more responsibility came with a promotion. But obviously more time spent working means less time for hobbies. And that affects not just blogging, but also the time for games themselves.

In Dungeons & Dragons I have two groups I run as the DM. Having less time for preparation, I came up with a deceptively simple plan: Group A is now playing the campaign that group B played before, while group B is now playing the campaign that group A played before. Which means that a good part of the preparation is already done, battlemaps drawn, miniatures 3D-printed, etc. In terms of reducing my preparation work, the plan is a success.

However it turns out that the replayability of D&D campaigns isn't all that great. The players don't notice, because for them the campaigns are new. But for me as a DM, running the same campaign a second time turns out to be less fun. I had thought that the relatively open nature of pen & paper roleplaying would mean a very different experience when playing the same campaign again with a different group. But in fact it isn't all that different. There are a handful of occurrences where one group made a decision very different from the previous group. But more often than not the players just follow the story along predictable paths, and do more or less the same than the previous group. That is why for example I'm not blogging what happened in my D&D sessions anymore, as it isn't sufficiently different from what I blogged when I played the same campaign with the previous group.

Now one of these groups is meeting infrequently, and I'm okay running the old campaign with them. For the more active group in the Zeitgeist campaign, I will reach the end of the campaign in about 3 sessions. And then I'll try something new. Of which I'll blog more at a later date.