Waking Dead

About 4 or 5 years ago, I started a WLD campaign not long after the book was launched. My plan was to run a decidedly old-school dungeon bash, featuring not-at-all serious characters with a low life expectancy. We played a couple of extended sessions that took the PCs, eventually, to Region B, but I was never entirely satisfied, and we haven’t picked it up since.

Well, I’m itching to start it all up again. I want to go back to the beginning and run it properly this time – not necessarily any more seriously, but with a bit more invested in the characters and more focus on my behalf. We’ve also got a slightly different group now, so there’s really no reason not to. I’m going to let the players come up with new characters if they want, but I really like the guys we’ve already rolled up. I mean, who doesn’t like a party of four halflings and two dwarfs?

Here’s my preferred roll-call:

Chris: Burgess Applecrust, Halfling Cleric
Si: Brandy Butter, Halfling Wizard
Phil: Fingers McGee, Halfling Thief
Mark B: Stilton Segal, Halfling Monk (and former chef)*
Mark R: Sparco Broomhandle, Dwarf Wizard
Mike: Dreng Doomfist, Dwarf Barbarian

*On reading through Mark B’s character sheet, I discovered the only equipment he had was a knife, a fork, a spoon, a cheese-grater, and a selection of assorted pies…

Obviously some of the classes aren’t optimal – we could do with swapping one of the wizards for a sorcerer perhaps, and we don’t have a tank – but I love the group dynamic. Also, Si has written quite a bit of back story for the halfling village of Dingly Dell, and I wouldn’t want to upset Jenny Bustletrump.

Hopefully I’ll be kicking things off on Wednesday the 26th of August, so join me in the aftermath to see how it all went down.