The Story

Bill went to Queen’s University in the early 1980’s and on weekends he played Dungeons and Dragons which was a trendy thing to do at the time. Bill was such a great story teller and he had an extremely analytical mind so he was able to keep track of many things happening at the same time. He had set up a campaign for players, and they would travel half way across the province or come from the Maritimes to participate. It was always worthwhile. If you had the pleasure to listen in on an adventure in Bill’s campaign, you would have seen the intensity that players would involve themselves into role-playing. Bill’s talent to describe details and surroundings along with creating winnable but so terribly life threatening scenarios for the characters; kept everyone on the edge of their seats for hours. I remember a session when we had five characters in our subgroup and the person playing the elven mage held back using her spells and allowed one person to perish in a battle but then saved the remaining four players when she used her talents on the next more formidable foe. I often thought that Bill should put his campaign adventures into a book so that other people could referee them for other people but he alters and adjusts the situations based on the players that are participating. It was never the scenario that beat the party; it was the inclusion of someone who did not perform to their expectations that would cause the entire group to wipe and all get killed. This was Bill’s secret to running such a legendary campaign.
What follows is a continuing saga of events that are encountered by adventurers who all have unique skills and talents. The special twist to the plot is that not even Bill knows if the adventurers will win or lose. That is dependent upon how well the participants perform and we won’t know that until the story is written. Reading this work will be as if you were a fly on the wall during one of Bill’s campaigns. The excitement and disappointments will all be there.
ps Bill was a Star Trek addict and now he's into NCIS. In trivia, he is a legend.