Plans, Bans, and Clans

August Babies Birthday Bash (ABBB): the largest party my family throws in the year. The clan of friends we have show up, revel, sing, open gag gifts from the pile of doom, and revel some more. This year the entire clan will show up, including some new recruits, my girlfriend being among them. And for the past week we have been working to clean up the place. It has been a lot of work so far, and the place looks completely different. We may even have and axe throwing target and survivable fire pit again! And all for the glory of the clan.

I have also reconsidered my last post: the plan presented will be strike three of my new three strike plan. The Stupid Rock has already used his first strike when he turned on the group. But then I had a revelation: he has too much power! In our D&D campaigns, we have all started out at fifth level, far stronger than what a new guy should be. Also, in World of Darkness your average character is already stronger than a mere mortal when you allow the players to play as supernaturals. Thus, I have come to the conclusion that my strike two should be a campaign where the players start at level 1. I have the feeling that if the Stupid Rock has to earn his power, he will learn to use it in a heroic fashion, especially since D&D is designed to reward heroism in the first place. But if he still continues down his path of stupidity for controversies sake, I will move on to my original plan.

Which has got me thinking about where I would hold my gaming club if I do have to leave the group. So far me and my girlfriend have come up with ideas ranging from Safeway or an ice cream shop to my place or her friends house. So far, my place seems to be the best option, since we couldn't really afford to be weekly patrons of a place of business. And of course I will definitely invite the other group members and possibly some from other groups I know, but the Stupid Rock will be banned, as it was his evil and stupidity that would have drove me out of the original group in the first place.

Some people, including my parents, wonder why I am even bothering with all of this in the first place. The answer is simple: I need to fix broken people. I want to fix the world, but where I am at now I can only fix myself and those I hang out with. I still need a lot of work in fine tuning myself and working out my problems and imperfections, but the Stupid Rock is among the most broken of my friends, and if I didn't at least try to fix him, it would be like betraying him. And I am trying to work on my determination and resolve, and I decided that I will try to fix him using himself as my means. So, in a way, I am kind of fixing myself in the process. And I still have a lot of work to do...