The end of 100 Secrets and American Gods

[lathany]

Dom's 100 Secrets campaign ended last night, with champagne brought by Andie. It started on Saturday 17th August 2013, so has been going for slightly more than four years. There were three seasons in total and five players - although not always the same people at the same time. The first season was myself, Andie, Sarah and Jon. The second swapped Sarah for Krys. The first half of the third included all five players and then Jon retired and we were back to four for the last half-season. It was a very good fantasy game which was set after Monde and before the original Swordsmaster game in the same universe. Turns out that my character was a teacher of Arilzean the Cold, which is rather cool. In terms of our actual party; Rose became queen, Loy was acknowledged and now heads both family and the Guild of Cartographers, Carlos and Aeryn both now run cities on the eastern continent. The characters all did pretty well for themselves. It's also the first campaign that Dom has run to its original planned length for over a decade - so that's pretty good too.

I've watched the first tv season of American Gods and that prompted me to read the book. I think I prefer the book overall (not least because it ends and includes the follow-up novella Monarch of the Glen). It's a lovely piece of work with decent characters and a nice scattering of gods. Also, Shadow makes a sympathetic protagonist, for all that he starts off in prison for a crime he did commit.

Finally, last week was my second first week of my new job. I'm going to cautiously say it's going OK, but I'm finding these early days very tiring.