D&D Babble: Finishing off Waterdeep Dragon Heist

I did it. It happened. After 38 sessions, the game which started in January 2021 was finally concluded last night.

It went well. Lots of laughter and one big 'whoops, maybe I shouldn't have done that', my chaos goblins chose the side of light and was still handsomely rewarded (because in my world, good deeds aren't punished... just a nice little shift from reality, no?).

Feedback has mostly been positive. Just one big glaring negative: not enough combat. This is both a flaw of mine and of the particular campaign. But this is also a group that's a bit more combat-orientated, which exacerbated the problem.

What was funny to me is how every victory had to be celebrated. Like a player rolled a natural 20 (I think it was the only one for the night) and pictures had to be taken. I love that. I love that the small things can be big things in this game. The group worked very well together, which was also great. We had long discussions about what to do, plans were constructed, reconstructed, scrapped and re-reconstructed. All good fun.

I think from my perspective, the biggest flaw of this group is scheduling. It was an utter bastard. It was also not a case of preplanning. Time was very fluid and last-minute cancellations were not uncommon. For the ISTJ, mega-planner, wanter-of-schedules this was quite a challenge. But I'm glad we stuck to it and got it done.

Whereto next? Dunno. I know the general feeling is to give Ris a break from DM-ing, but also that no one else seems to have time in their schedules to DM. Whatever happens though, I might suggest running the new Phandelver campaign with them in 2025. I'll only acquire it late 2024 and it will give me time to plan, create maps and set up the game on Roll20. 

Why not just purchase the module on Roll20, you ask? Well, because I wanted the book and buying both seems expensive. I just can't justify it. Plus building the module was a lot of fun. I don't know if this will be as fun... maybe I'm remembering the TONS of work fondly because of the years that it's been since I last did it? I dunno. We'll see. Maybe I'll cave. But for now, only the book.

Anyhoo, I'm rambling. Let me go do something more productive...