As is customary with these session planning posts here is the obligatory bit of house keeping I need to do.

SPOILER ALERT TO MY ADVENTURERS! The following post contains spoilers for the up and coming campaign. You may want to avoid this post and join me in a future one.

Will we ever start up our campaign again? That’s the thought going through my head at the moment.

After an attempt to get everyone to agree and commit to the 5th January, we finally settled on the following weekend of the 15th January.

However! Yeah you knew that was coming. That date is looking very unlikely. But the reason would fall very easily into the “no one saw this coming” category. Sadly life threw a pretty major curve ball at a member of our party which means they may not be able to make this date or any other for a while. It’s more important that my friend takes the time (however long) to recover. The campaign and gaming will be there waiting for when they are able to join us again at the table.

In the meantime using the medium of our messenger group I have warned everyone (without going into details) that the 15th is unlikely to go ahead. However. Yep I used a however with them too. Those of us that could should still meet up on the 15th and do a one shot. Which could still be D&D based. Or as I suggested in another system such as (and I just listed two or three that I own) Paranoia, and Twilight 2000.

In the last day or so Matt Colville and his awesome band of merry people that are collectively known as MCDM have released a new pdf for a beastheart class and monstrous pets!

It has amazing cover art. Very old school in style and feel. I love it.

The whole premise of having monsters as pets and rules to use them sound cool and something I could use straight away in our campaign (if we were actually playing again).

The new class I can take or leave. It will be an option in a future campaign if a player wants to use it. My imagination wasn’t sparked into life by it as the illrigger class had done.

But what did get me excited was when Matt talked about the sporeling companion and showed a render of the mini they had done for it.

A mini you could order from them along with five others they had done.

Immediately I thought “the party are going to get a pet and not know it”. I liked the idea of them coming across Mot the sporeling while they are in the lost Ironstar mine. I just have this image of him following them around the mine just out of sight. Or hiding very badly when they look his way.

And yes I ordered the mini.

That’s all for now on session planning. No real progress at the mo for getting back to the table, and yet more ideas to use!