No D&D Tonight - City of the Dead on Hiatus

There's no D&D game tonight. We're on hiatus. It's disappointing because I've really enjoyed running my "City of the Dead" adventure over the past several months.

We agreed upfront to 5 sessions and we played 5 sessions. The group didn't move as quickly through the challenges as quickly as I hoped, partly because they created some additional challenges with... poor... decisions, so they haven't completed the mission yet. They need one more session to get to a reasonable conclusion... although even once they get there, the players may want a sequel to see what happens next.

What stops us from playing more? It's just scheduling. My plan of 5 sessions fit into the players' calendars to wrap up this year before holiday vacations. One of the players is actually setting off for a 3 month trip, so we're looking at resuming in late March, maybe more likely early April, if we wait for him. He's said he doesn't mind, though, if we wrap it up without him. So maybe we'll get back to playing in January.

Update: Maybe it's good I'm not GMing a game tonight as I've been slammed at work this whole week. I'm low on energy and I've had little time in which I could have prepared.

Slammed at Work

Whew. I was absolutely slammed at work this past week. ...Not that last week was any cake-walk. Nor has been really any week since about mid-August. But this past week I had basically two full weeks of work I wanted/needed to do, and only enough time to do half of it. 😰

No, working extra wasn't actually an option. For one, I was double-booked with meetings and projects pretty much all week. I missed lots of things I wanted/needed to do because I couldn't be in two places at once. Two, even when the nature of the work was such that I could choose work late and catch up on it, why would I? I'm not being paid extra for it. Plus I didn't have energy for it anyway. I finished each day so drained— partly from the constant triaging of deciding which meeting I could decline and arguing with a pushy sales manager who can't take "No" for an answer— that I just wanted to spend time on quiet leisure activities.