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Remembering Games Past
Dec. 10th, 2005 12:14 pmWow I'm sleepy. I'm so ridiculously happy that I won't have any 9 AM classes next semester, and I hope to avoid having one on Friday ever ever again, at least while I'm in Bloomington. Cause here's what happens...my normal schedule is 10AM - 2AM, generally speaking. I have trouble going to bed more than a half hour before 2. So on Thurs night, I would go to bed at about 2AM. Then, because my body would freak out about missing the alarm in the morning, I'd generally wake up between 7 and 7:30, instead of at 7:50 - not much of a difference, but enough. So I'd get up, go to class, etc. This was only a problem on days with interludes - so pretty much, I've gone to every interlude on 5 or so hours of sleep, and generally stay up till 3 or 4 AM. Needless to say, this usually leaves me a bit groggy on Saturday. :)
Anyway, the interlude was...interesting. I had fun, I'd say, but not in "hehe that was great way!" No, I'd say I'd have fun in a, "damn, it's fun to see my character get screwed with way." I'm not saying that what happened to Kathryn was all that bad - it really, really, really wasn't, it was so much better than anything I'd cooked up in my head - but of course most of the interlude I didn't know what would happen, so I got to roleplay "terrified," which was kind of fun...and she feels terrible for failing to keep Amelie from getting badly hurt - she was prepared to take a great deal of extra punishment if it meant that Amelie got off more lightly. But ah well. It's also amusing to be playing cute silly romantic stuff at the same time. ;)
So I noticed after the Samhain weekend stuff that I really was looking forward to the next Changeling game AND to the next Hogwarts game - I've been having very emotional responses to each (a sure sign I'm really into it - I feel strongly what my character feels even out of game, I look forward to the next game, etc.) and I found myself thinking back to other games I have anticipated that strongly. I think a lot of people assume that table top games can't elicit the same level of sympathetic emotion, but that's not really true at all, I've felt that way for table top games...
There are probably more than this, but these are the ones I can think of at the moment...these are rambling and long, and are more for my edification than for anyone to actually read them. ;) I'm writing them cause I feel that some day I'll look back at the old entries in my journal, and I'll be happy if they help me remember stuff I might have otherwise forgotten as the years have passed. (dates are by school semester, not reality, so Fall = Sept. - Dec, Spring = Jan - May, and Summer = June - August - in general, I've noticed, the starts and deaths of games coincide with semesters)
( My First Real D&D Game: Fall 2000 - Spring 2001 )
( My First Supers Game: Fall 2000 )
( Time Travel: Fall 2000 - Spring 2001 - with occasional later reprises )
( Golden Age: Spring 2001 - Spring 2005 )
I should probably get some work done. There are more games than what I wrote about, but cause I wrote too much about some of them, I need to go...maybe I'll do more later/tomorrow/etc.
Anyway, the interlude was...interesting. I had fun, I'd say, but not in "hehe that was great way!" No, I'd say I'd have fun in a, "damn, it's fun to see my character get screwed with way." I'm not saying that what happened to Kathryn was all that bad - it really, really, really wasn't, it was so much better than anything I'd cooked up in my head - but of course most of the interlude I didn't know what would happen, so I got to roleplay "terrified," which was kind of fun...and she feels terrible for failing to keep Amelie from getting badly hurt - she was prepared to take a great deal of extra punishment if it meant that Amelie got off more lightly. But ah well. It's also amusing to be playing cute silly romantic stuff at the same time. ;)
So I noticed after the Samhain weekend stuff that I really was looking forward to the next Changeling game AND to the next Hogwarts game - I've been having very emotional responses to each (a sure sign I'm really into it - I feel strongly what my character feels even out of game, I look forward to the next game, etc.) and I found myself thinking back to other games I have anticipated that strongly. I think a lot of people assume that table top games can't elicit the same level of sympathetic emotion, but that's not really true at all, I've felt that way for table top games...
There are probably more than this, but these are the ones I can think of at the moment...these are rambling and long, and are more for my edification than for anyone to actually read them. ;) I'm writing them cause I feel that some day I'll look back at the old entries in my journal, and I'll be happy if they help me remember stuff I might have otherwise forgotten as the years have passed. (dates are by school semester, not reality, so Fall = Sept. - Dec, Spring = Jan - May, and Summer = June - August - in general, I've noticed, the starts and deaths of games coincide with semesters)
( My First Real D&D Game: Fall 2000 - Spring 2001 )
( My First Supers Game: Fall 2000 )
( Time Travel: Fall 2000 - Spring 2001 - with occasional later reprises )
( Golden Age: Spring 2001 - Spring 2005 )
I should probably get some work done. There are more games than what I wrote about, but cause I wrote too much about some of them, I need to go...maybe I'll do more later/tomorrow/etc.
