Evil Labyrinth - Observations and Thoughts on Arcade Gaming Session Reports

Last Sunday, the 24th, Nathan ran the first session of his Evil Labyrinth: Of Gods and Monsters campaign, a very "back to basics" arcade style game where we begin with dungeon crawling, then will move onto wilderness exploration in mid-levels and presumably domains at high level? We'll see! I played in that session, and plan on playing in future ones too. As someone who likes to write session reports about the games I play, this has presented me with a strange conundrum however. Something Like a Session ReportBut before we get into that, let's go over the actual session. That first session was appropriately insane, with 13 players attending for the first two hours, then after a break a few of us left, yet there were still 9 more players effectively running a second session of an hour and thirty minutes. In those two hours our rather impressive gaggle of adventurers killed a few beakdogs, some giant spiders and eventually solved a clever puzzle involving said spiders to open a secret…