RPGA games at home

I'm playing a lot of D&D at present - I'd say more than at any other time in my life.

How much?

Well - by one way of counting - after running my first RPGA game ten months ago (11th September 2004), I've reached 142 reward points, through a combination of Living Greyhawk games, Legacy of the Green Regent, Mark of Heroes, Living Force and some Home Campaigns. The actual adventure count is 62 in 10 months, and I know that doesn't include several Home Campaign sessions that occurred before the system allowed them.

Looking at that in the terms of the Player Rewards periods:
9/04 -> 12/04 = 28 pts
1/05 -> 4/05 = 66 pts (74 with overlap)
4/05 -> 8/05 = 48 pts (62 with overlap and ongoing... I hope to reach 80 pts!)

My fortnightly schedule now looks something like this:
1st Friday afternoon: Living Greyhawk
1st Friday evening: (Home/Greyhawk) Age of Worms
1st Sunday afternoon: (Home/Greyhawk) Necropolis
2nd Friday afternoon: Mark of Heroes (or LG)
2nd Saturday afternoon: (Home/Other) Key of Destiny (DL) as a player!

Although there is some overlap of players, there are about 15 who I regularly game with - 6 in the Age of Worms game, and the other 9 split between the Friday afternoon and weekend games.

This weekend is a Perrenland LG game on Friday afternoon, the first session of Age of Worms on Friday evening, and the third of Necropolis on Sunday.

Unfortunately, I don't quite have enough players for regular Living Force games. Adam, Greg M and Gofa are all big Star Wars fans, and they love the LF games, but I need another player - and for Gofa to be available apart from the Necropolis sessions.

The RPGA has proved to be a big boon for me as a DM. I originally started with a couple of small "Game Days", which indeed were much smaller than others of their ilk. Greg M helped me as a DM in the second one, a Living Greyhawk adventure. Greg M's much happier with running his own inventions - or playing - so we haven't repeated the process. Still, even the limited success of that game allowed me to meet Martin and Bradford, with whom I've spent a lot of happy evenings over the past nine months playing D&D and other games.

Greg O and Gerard probably wouldn't be playing D&D at all if not for the Living Greyhawk games I run on the Fridays, so it helps keep players in the loop as well.

What allows me to keep running all these games is that I don't have to write them all! In fact, I'm writing nothing at the present time, but even so, I try to keep it only to my primary Greyhawk one (currently in the midst of Necropolis - see my session reports).

Are RPGA adventures for everyone? Definitely not. Martin's group doesn't like them much, which is why I run them through other things. I expect I'll be modifying Age of Worms for them as we go along. That's fine: it is why we have DMs instead of computers.