Jacob

We technically held this session on a Monday, but it definitely felt like a Friday to me. We had all the carefreedom of an oncoming weekend as our party explored The Stronghold. Friday Man had lost his voice right before the session, but he rolled with it and we all whispered and it made it feel like we were all being really sneaky (which we were trying to do in-game anyways). The mood was set for the different scenes with different music appropriate to the environment, changing as we passed over a bridge, through a garden, and into a prison's torture chambers. Descriptions of the environment were colorful and appropriately detailed--plenty of aesthetic substance to stir the theater of the mind, but not so much detail that it dragged on. Friday Man has a good command of the core rules of D&D, but when there were questions that we didn't collectively know the answers to, they were resolved in a way that suited the story, made sense, and were cool or funny. And he kept a balance of letting us glimpse what the mechanics of the monsters we were up against were, flirting around in the rewarding inner space between being too obvious or being too hidden.