So, our summer of D&D didn't quite turn out as planned. Just as we were ramping up new games on multiple fronts, my wife was diagnosed with Leukemia and we spent the next several months in and out of the hospital between rounds of chemo and recovery. The good news at the end of it all - she's out the other end and has a good chance of being done with it. I'm on hand as a full time caretaker until I go back to work in January, and then we'll be picking up more or less where we left off.
The one game I kept going during this time was our casual Adventurer's League series, which just finished its third season. We're now playing the epic, Reclamation of Phlan, which acts as a capstone to the entire Moonsea arc. I adapted it for our home group and split the three tracks into different weekly sessions, and that should continue on for a few weeks while we're getting ready to return to normal here. I'm pretty proud of how I set this up, and it's been years in the making. Sometime soon I should do a deep dive on the systems and geekery that go into adapting an adventure like this.
It's been a weird, wild time handling things at home and losing out on time for things we love to do. Of the people who came out of the woodwork for support, it ended up being some of our players that helped the most. It's really cool so see, and I'm forever grateful and hope I can continue delivering fun adventures for years to come.
