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Soooo, my last Madrigal...
It is funny, since Madrigal 2 started, I had been having a really hard time getting invested in the ongoing plotlines - I felt a huge disconnect between Krengal and the world (and PCs) around him and had been questioning continuing playing since before we found out Little Bobby Tables was on the way. Still, I kept on coming back, all the while trying to figure out the why of my issue before making the choice to either continue playing or drop the game. In the end, I realized that it was that my needs as a player had changed. The lure of doing mighty deeds and fighting epic battles so that the world would be safe for the common folk once more, had lost some of it's shine. I still believe in those concepts and still celebrate their existence in the games that we play, but I've begun to value more and more the little deeds, the ones that, when all was said and done, didn't mean anything to anyone other than those involved in the scene, and weren't needed to be accomplished in order to win the day. Those moments where everyone involved got to explore what made us humam (or elf or shoathri or whatever), those were the moments I craved. Ironically, when I stumbled into the things![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tashewolf and cointeach are running, I had already realized that I wasn't going to be able to keep playing once the baby arrived. Yay timing!
I'd have loved to have seen where the things Krengal was involved with would have gone, but I have to say, that his exit was wonderfully fitting for him. In the end, there was no explosion, no blaze of glory, just business as usual as he picked up his hat and headed out the door for yet another adventure.
It is funny, since Madrigal 2 started, I had been having a really hard time getting invested in the ongoing plotlines - I felt a huge disconnect between Krengal and the world (and PCs) around him and had been questioning continuing playing since before we found out Little Bobby Tables was on the way. Still, I kept on coming back, all the while trying to figure out the why of my issue before making the choice to either continue playing or drop the game. In the end, I realized that it was that my needs as a player had changed. The lure of doing mighty deeds and fighting epic battles so that the world would be safe for the common folk once more, had lost some of it's shine. I still believe in those concepts and still celebrate their existence in the games that we play, but I've begun to value more and more the little deeds, the ones that, when all was said and done, didn't mean anything to anyone other than those involved in the scene, and weren't needed to be accomplished in order to win the day. Those moments where everyone involved got to explore what made us humam (or elf or shoathri or whatever), those were the moments I craved. Ironically, when I stumbled into the things
tashewolf and cointeach are running, I had already realized that I wasn't going to be able to keep playing once the baby arrived. Yay timing!I'd have loved to have seen where the things Krengal was involved with would have gone, but I have to say, that his exit was wonderfully fitting for him. In the end, there was no explosion, no blaze of glory, just business as usual as he picked up his hat and headed out the door for yet another adventure.
