Bare knuckled gaming for 13 hours straight!

I can’t remember the last time I gamed for 13 hours straight…might have been when I was in high school or had just graduated. Either way, it was a long-ass time ago.

Until last Saturday.

The second Champions of the North game started bright and early on a Saturday morning and didn’t wrap up until almost midnight. And damn was it a blast.

Generally there is a ton of prep work, props, sets and such that goes into my games. But this time it was my players, some mini’s, a handful of dice and that’s it. And you know what? I think it may have been one of the best games I’ve ever put on ( a sentiment echoed by one of my gamers at the table actually.)

It was just a flat-out good old fashioned dungeon crawl, but you know what? It was a total blast, so much so that the gamers want to get back together this coming weekend to continue. Truth be told two of them laughed so hard they almost passed out from lack of oxygen (I swear- that’s true).

Sometimes, it’s just a lot of fun to get back to your roots. Just a map, some dice and your imagination is all you need to have a fantastic time. Beauty in simplicity as they say. And last Saturday’s game was a beautiful thing.

Of course I was wiped-out Sunday, but it was well worth it.

And I got paid one the highest compliments I’ve ever gotten from a player:

“I felt like I was a teenager again.”

When you get older, have kids, responsibilities, bills and you become an “adult”, you will realize just how valuable something like that is.