I had expected "Isles of Dread" to run to completion this year, but for various reasons that has not happened. The party are now most of the way through Part Three (of four), and have reached 4th level (of an expected 5). I fully expect the campaign to come to an end reasonably early in 2024, assuming we resume at all, marking the end of the final campaign with this group.
In truth, it's probably just as well that the party haven't hit Part Four yet - actually writing that part of the adventure was one of the items on my to do list for my Christmas holiday last year... and my February holiday, Easter, Summer... And, of course, it remains on my to do list.
The campaign has been running smoothly. That's probably to be expected, as we're fairly expert in these things by now. The only thing particularly of note is that one of the characters took a Feat for the first time... but that has made very little real difference to things.
I have learned a number of things from this, one of which is that using random tables to fill in minor encounters is largely pointless at a home table - the procedural stuff is invisible to the players, and makes very little difference to the DM, so why bother. Random encounters are therefore best used in some sort of Tension Pool approach, where they serve to push the PCs to keep moving forward rather than just wasting time.
And that's basically all there is to say about that. It's fine, it's ongoing, and hopefully it will come to a successful end soon.
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