2023-05-11
Last night I had a nightmare about Dungeons & Dragons. Specifically, about the group I DM for on alternate Fridays.
In their last session the party - somewhat uncharacteristically - latched onto a new primary plot hook rightaway. Instead of rushing off onto some random side quest threw themselves directly into this new mission.
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This effectively kicked off a new chapter of their story, so I've been doing some prep-work this last week or so. Y'know: making battlemaps, stocking treasure chests with mysterious and powerful magical artefacts, and inventing a plethora of characters for the party to either befriend or kill (or, knowing this party: both).
I also put together a "cut scene" video welcoming the party into this new chapter of their adventure.
Anyway: in the dream, I sat down to complete the prep-work I want to get done before this week's play session. I re-checked my notes about what the adventurers had gotten up to last time around, and... panicked! I was wrong, they hadn't thrown themselves off the side of a city floating above the first layer of Hell at all! I'd mis-remembered completely and they'd actually just ventured into a haunted dungeon. I'd been preparing all the wrong things and now there wasn't time to correct my mistakes!
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This is, of course, an example of the "didn't prepare for the test" trope of dreams. Clearly I'm still feeling underprepared for this week's game! But probably a bigger reason for the dream, and remembering it, was that I've had a cold and kept waking up to cough.
Right, better do a little more prep work!
Blog of The Levellers, a D&D party
"Thoughts and Prayers", the most-recent post in The Levellers' blog.
Cut scene video welcoming The Levellers to the plains of Avernus.
