There has been a bit of a huge delay (obviously) in kicking off the next DnD campaign - part of it is some real world issues with getting the right player group together & other assorted stuff, and part of it has been some corporate issues with the direction Wizards as been taking DnD causing us to look at other systems, or third party product, or going with something outside of fantasy altogether.
So the Exandrian Saltmarsh swashbuckling extravaganza has -not- gone away. I'm still plugging away at background information, handouts, and adventures within. But I'm also working on a Fallout 2d20 campaign, plus minis and terrain and that whole undertaking. I did pick up a couple of Starfinder books as well, and I'd really, really love to run a Dune 2d20 Master of Dune campaign, especially with Dune Pt II coming out soon-ish. The spice must flow, Corral. To say nothing at all about BattleTech/Alpha Strike and all of the non-RPG campaigns/pick-up games I constantly want to do of that, especially now that my kiddo is old enough to kind of get into it.
And my work situation hasn't dramatically changed, either. I guess I'm trying to do a lot more extraneous and "might be needed/might not be needed" prep work to have a healthy dose of backup material in case my workload goes back to the 50 hours a week mark 'fore I can move along to something else.
Season two of Vox Machina is keeping me motivated to run something on Tal'dorei, for sure, and nothing is really 100% taking my focus off of DnD. Even though 5e is most likely my first/last edition, and all my future purchases will most likely be just 3P (raising the black flag with Kobold Press), I do still have a ton of love for the game. Despite how things ended with the group, I have an incredible amount of fond memories from the last campaign and I talk about it constantly when the subject comes up. It's just that RPGs in general, as a DM/GM/ST, can be exhaustingly time consuming to keep running and I want to make sure I have the -right- ingredients to my stew before we all sit down to eat it.
You feel me?
