Freelancers didn’t happen. :-(
The Freelancers campaign I mentioned in the last post mostly didn’t happen. I DMd one session where I had one player, John, plus my 12-year-old son and my 8-year-old daughter. I threw out most of my prep (which really needed more PCs) and sent the group against a false hydra but it only had one head with HP. The PCs managed to usually have at least one of them who made a Wisdom save and they each got a hit or three in before it went down. After that session I realized that I was having a lot of trouble getting into the right mindset to DM. Family troubles and challenges have been coming up left and right. I honestly don’t know if I’ll ever be up for DMing D&D 5e again any time soon, because I just don’t know the system well enough and I have anxiety about my kids, my spouse, and life generally. Besides that, when I never know how many players will be there I can’t really prep very well. (My original prep was for 4-6, and I ended up with two players plus one druid unicorn that mo