William Shakespeare's Dracula, Session Four

Several weeks ago, our game of Annalise came to a sudden but satisfying end. In fact, I think the end was the most satisfying part about the game. We had brothers reconciled but divided, a ruler restored to his throne and family, a father and daughter reunited, and a marriage dissolved. All the sorts of things you'd hope for from Shakespeare.

I say the game ended suddenly because I didn't realize it was going to be the last session, even until forty-five minutes from the end. The other players brought to my attention, however, that we were dragging things out, and that perhaps the best thing to do was to push to the Confrontation and have it out with the vampire. That we came up with a marvelously cool idea of who the vampire was (which went against our earlier instincts) certainly helped.

Looking back on it, I think the parts of the game that I expected to work for us did. The problem was I didn't expect  other parts not to work for us. It did bring to light certain things about our play style that I wasn't aware of before, which is always good. And it's possible that it gave me the basis for a new game design. How that's for a twist ending?