It is a rare and wonderful thing to play in a D&D campaign from start to finish. Even more rare to play from Level 1 to Level 20. Over Memorial Day weekend, the Infinity & Beyond crew completed the Eberron campaign, Oracle of War. From start to finish, we played this game on Arvan Eleron’s Twitch channel.
All of our characters grew and changed over the course of the campaign. Though, relationships remained steadfast. My character, Neesiana D’Jorasco, a halfling healer from the house of healing is one of my favorite characters to date. Between her unwavering faith in Eberron (the dragon) and her sister, Merimee Hawksmoor (played by the incomparable Marie Bilodeau), Neesiana managed some things I didn’t think I could: she remained joyful despite the pains of war and loss. I even “won D&D” once by having a Divine Intervention go off in the middle of a tense combat. One of many moments I won’t forget.
The entire crew was memorable. John’s Starforged, Elerian; Tren’s Artificer, Miatantin with his goodest of boys, Spanner; Brandon’s insanity with his wild magic Sorcerer, Rowan, Marie’s College of Sword Bard always ready with a witty repartee, and, of course, our GM, Greg, who played all of the beloved NPCs and hated enemies.
The two mottos of our game were: “It’s the best bad idea we’ve ever had.” and “I had a great time. I hated every minute of it!”
The other thing I really appreciated was how we could argue IC or discuss things OOC and trust each other to keep up, to listen, to respect each other. Because of all that, I dedicated my latest Shadowrun novel, Imre Grey, to this gaming group.
This one is dedicated to my “Infinity & Beyond” Eberron crew:
Marie, John, Tren, Brandon, and Greg.
Though we live far from one another, gaming with all of you online over the last five years (up to L20!) has been a balm to my soul when life has gotten complicated. You have always given me something fun to look forward to. Thank you. I can’t wait to see what we get up to next.
Yes, I will miss Neesiana. A lot. But she had a lovely wrap up. I am looking forward to our next adventure. It will be a low level Dragonlance game, right after the cataclysm. Just watch and see what mischief we cause with a bunch of brand new characters.
