I really struggle with writing journals, especially personal ones. The concept of putting my thoughts out into the world unbidden can feel like I'm being presumptuous and imposing, which is why I tend to prefer to communicate via my horrible characters and their dreadful stories. But I wanted to mark this one.

After just under 2 years, at least 66 pages of notes, 9 levels, 75 maps, and a whole lot of making up cool attacks on the spot, I've finished running a narrative campaign for 6 players. It was a very satisfying experience. Highlights for me included attacking my poor players with an animated windmill, trapping them in the worlds of their characters' favourite stories, building clockwork doubles of them, watching them make a speech at a conference of clerics about why the Raven Queen, Goddess of Death, should be stuffed in a giant boat engine, letting them pilot a submarine made from the bones of a dead dragon (and then having to explain themselves to said dragon's sister), battling an undead pirate queen on a castle made from her old ships at the bottom of the ocean, doing a good old skyscraper heist, getting them to fly to the moon on the back of the aforementioned sister dragon (and fight void whales), describing a Primordial Inkspout (like a waterspout, but made of the ink used to write the very laws of reality), and calling the final boss of the campaign "Ted". All in one connected story, or at least it was supposed to be. Thanks to my players for sticking with me through all of my dumb ideas.

And importantly, I'm not going to be DMing the next campaign, which will give me a few more evenings a week to write lewd horrors coming to life. The Court has many, many monsters, and a few new ones will be showing off soon, as will some classics. I look forward to introducing you to them all~