Due to the complexity of scheduling, I now find myself with both my games being scheduled for Thursdays, meaning that most days I have no gaming at all and then two sessions in a day. Which isn't ideal, but it's better than most of the alternatives.
Last Thursday was an odd day, then, in that the two sessions were radically different in outcome and character.
The work game was deeply underwhelming. The major reason for this was that I was woefully under-prepared for the session, largely due to just not having the time required. The other problem was that the PCs decided to conduct their infiltration under cover of daylight, meaning that pretty much all of the material that I had prepared was rendered useless. As a consequence, the session started late, ended early, and contained almost nothing of any value. And given that this is one of the centre-piece adventures of the campaign as a whole, that's pretty disastrous. A real shame.
By contrast, the game in the evening went much better, despite also being under-prepared. At least in this case the material that I had in place did apply, and the game was generally fun for all concerned. Which is a win.
It's also worth noting that the evening campaign has established (I think) that it works best as a very 'classic' campaign style - what is needed is a succession of well-designed short quests and dungeons, rather than anything more nebulous. So keeping the runway going there shouldn't be too tough.
But "The Lists of Lamordia" is a challenge. I clearly need to put in some more work on that centre-piece adventure, which really needs to pull together from the mess that is currently in place.
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