They're playing a barbarian, a Norse cleric, and an elven wizard. I'm going to play what I call a DM PC (an NPC that's used like a PC). I figured he'd be the thief, since nobody ever seems to want to play one ever since I started DMing 30 years ago!
We're all in our 30's and 40's except the teenaged niece, but she's brilliant! Very intelligent and lots of enthusiasm. My friend's sister is playing the barbarian chick, and it's a blast! Two female, two male characters. That's a first!
We're going to start the actual campaign (the sister and niece have never played AD&D before, so Saturday was just a practice game...though we did game until 1 AM!
) next week or the week after. The only problem is that it's quite far away. If we take the expressway and push beyond the speed limit by oh, 10mph or so 
, it takes over an hour to drive there. And of course, scheduling issues. But we're shooting for twice a month. Which is good, because it leaves me plenty of time in-between to work on the BIP material and...My other new campaign!
The same friend is going to help me resurrect our old 10 year long campaign set in Taladas (but 99.9% DM created). That way we can play that whenever we like as he lives about 15 minutes away in bad traffic. In that one, we're set to go to the Egyptian style land of Old Aurim to purify one of the magic items (long story), then we have to go rescue our followers, who were kidnapped back in 1999 by the Golgothans (a very evil nation ruled by a vampire lord) when the campaign ended. We'll be using the other PCs (from the players who left over the years) as NPCs. I wrote up 21 pages of adventure for next week.
So it looks like AD&D gaming is making a comeback for me! Yes!
And that gets my creative juices flowing like nothing else.
We might also be getting another player, but I'm gonna wait and see if he's serious.
In BIP news, all we need for the Undermountain Level 7 map to be done is for me to finish writing some new monsters so that I can get the wandering monster table to Doirche, and I have the Level 8 map finished. I'll soon have 20 more rooms ready to send to the proof-readers for Level 7. And my friend's niece may know an artist we can work with.
Not a bad way to jump into spring of 2008, huh?
And I'd be more than willing to play a rogue 
