Quinns' Campaign Diaries, Vol 1 Pt 5
Added 2025-12-09 15:58:03 +0000 UTCComments
Cheers to a happy ending! Well—a satisfying one, at least! At some point, I'd appreciate hearing you talk a bit more about the maneuver you pulled at the top of session: Dropping your players into a scene with new, unfamiliar NPCs in a radically different narrative context/perspective. I fucking LOVE this idea, but I wonder how I would introduce such a thing at the table? I am especially thinking of players who come from more of a D&D/video game background, who have their 1 Blorbo that they think and care about and approach the gameworld through. I imagine emphasizing brevity and establishing context would be a big part of it, but I'd love to know if there are any communication tools you use when introducing this device to new players to help them feel at-ease. How much about a scene do you say up top vs how much do you hold back/surprise them with? Etc, etc. But!I reckon that can wait til after your break. :) Thanks for a great year of gaming insights, Quinns, and happy winter!!
Ennis Jackson
2025-12-19 15:58:55 +0000 UTCI hope Quinns doesn't mind me answering this on his behalf but I was part of this campaign and if I recall correctly this happened just once. Ideally we try and schedule things in such a way that everyone can make it and we're pretty good at doing that, but there was one session where two people cancelled at the last minute and so we did a little side quest with just two player characters. In my experience these kinds of sessions are really fun because it gives two characters more opportunities to interact with each other and it's a good opportunity to flesh out both that relationship and your respective characters as you both get a little more room to breathe in the narrative
Thomas
2025-12-17 09:54:29 +0000 UTCI just finished reading the campaign diaries, and I don't know if you have mentioned this somewhere else already, but I was curious what your policy is about players being unable to make a session? Does that simply never happen? Do you cancel/postpone the session? Do you still run as long as a certain subset can still show up?
Mikkel Østergaard
2025-12-14 18:58:33 +0000 UTCCongrats! Very Blades-y ending, I feel.
Mathias Belger
2025-12-14 13:51:56 +0000 UTCI'd love to get an Adam Vass game to the table. He's so cool! Watch this space.
Quinns Quest
2025-12-12 06:29:28 +0000 UTCRest easy, Quinns! You've earned it.
David Hayes
2025-12-10 15:50:32 +0000 UTC"See, this is what freaks me out and has me arching my back like a scared cat when people tell me they’ve been playing the same D&D character for two and a half years. It’s the knowledge that these people are denying themselves the joy, the excitement, the cool of raising the stakes to the point that nobody knows who’s about to live and who dies." I've sadly never played an RPG campaign, having grown up in a place and at a time when it seems it was pretty much impossible to find people to play RPGs with. My only experience is with one-shot games such as Fiasco or Alice Is Missing. But I can see appeal and excitement in both approaches: one-off campaigns that tell a finite story and the ongoing soap opera of taking your character through one story after another. I think that if I had the time these days to play RPGs more regularly, I'd probably try to accommodate both of these options.
Matt Kimmich
2025-12-10 12:29:31 +0000 UTCI feel so understood when I look at your notes. Mine are exactly the same: extremely precise, neat, and orderly at the beginning of a campaign and then the furious scribblings of a paranoid schizophrenic at the end of it. Plus we apparently have very similar handwriting / printing. Sounds like it was a blast of a campaign and I'm glad everyone enjoyed it! It seems like you have a great table. *I love* that ending. Pure cinema. Your rest is well-earned. No one can create and create endlessly - that is without a doubt the path to burnout and falling out of love with your hobby or campaign. I hope you're able to put TTRPGs to the side for a couple weeks so you can consume some media that might help fill the well once again. Thanks for all the phenomenal content. Best wishes for the Holidays to you, your players, and everyone reading this.
Ixidor
2025-12-09 18:38:13 +0000 UTCHave a happy holiday, Quinns! Looking forward to what you bring us in the new year!
ABAKES7
2025-12-09 16:40:39 +0000 UTCWould love to see an Adam Vass game featured! Your nice words about Blood Borg got me to pull the trigger and im wrapping up that crazy campaign in a couple of weeks!
Charles Woody
2025-12-09 16:24:36 +0000 UTCWith the first game of the Campaign Diaries, I just want to emphasize how pleased I am with them. I loved reading the escapades of your groups, then hearing the conundrums you would come across as the campaign went on. The collective brainstorming in the comments solved some problems I had in my own games, and I think has bettered the way I think about my own games. I think I'm gonna try pitching a story like this to my players, since they all have said they would rather have longer games, but I'd like to try shorters ones, and I think a thrilling finale like this could be a big sway.
Tabitha
2025-12-09 16:22:53 +0000 UTC
