We are getting concerned that Oreo has been eating a lot more than usual lately and we are entertaining the idea that he might have worms. We haven’t seen any evidence that he does but he has been eating far more food than it seems would be appropriate and he isn’t putting on any weight that we can see. So we are going to be getting the lab to check him out pretty soon.

Ramona and Winni came by a little after noon with vegetable stew and vegan cornbread (soy milk, bananas instead of eggs, etc.) It was really good. We ate that before getting ready for Dungeons & Dragons today. Our day is going to be pretty short as Winni has to catch a flight to Wisconsin at six thirty out of Newark.

Kevin came over and we played the campaign from about one until five – so four hours of game time. Around three we ordered in some pizza from Nino’s.

Dominica and I just relaxed for the rest of the evening. I did some homework for my Project Management class and we watched the remainder of the first season of What I Like About You. Then it was time for bed.

I am working the early shift this week so I need to get some sleep.

When I wrapped up work it was approaching noon and Dominica and I had a lot that we needed to do before we were going to be ready for people to come over for the D&D game.  We need to clean, take care of Oreo and I have to prep for the game which takes quite a bit of work.  We also wanted to generate Dominica’s character before we started to play and that took almost an hour.

We weren’t able to get as much done as we had hoped that we would but what can you do?  Ramona, Winni and Kevin all came over around three thirty and we set to generating everyone’s characters.  That took several hours as is to be expected at the beginning of a campaign.

Between getting characters set up, Oreo needing to do his routing again and then ordering in dinner from Mi Pequeno Mexico and a sushi place in Newark (who knew) it was around eight thirty at night when we finally got around to getting the game actually moving.  But there is little that can be done.  D&D requires a lot of concentration and it is such an immense task that the initial setup for a campaign just takes a lot of work.

We ended up playing from eight thirty until after one in the morning.  We didn’t get real far into the adventure but, then again, that is under four hours of actual play time.  So it really wasn’t all that bad.  I am thinking about setting up a “campaign blog” to follow the storyline of the campaign.  I think that that would be interesting – to see the adventure unfold a bit more like an adventure’s journal.

We decided to get together again tomorrow and continue the campaign since we didn’t get a lot of actual play time today and everyone is anxious for more.