This is Faith in Play #97: Ironic Endings, for December 2025.
The irony is that last month I wrote about the possibility that this article series might come to an end, and today I abruptly realized that it was the first Tuesday in December, on which there should be an entry of Faith in Play publishing, and I hadn’t seen it and couldn’t think of what it was, so I began checking only to discover that not only had it not been published, indeed not been uploaded to the queue, I had not written one.
This is perhaps the more ironic because since writing that last article I’ve finished Hector Miraz’ second Faith and Fandom book and started on the third. I recommend them, once you’ve finished reading mine–but nothing there sparked an article here.
Which causes me to think that it is entirely possible this series will end without notice, without warning, that I will simply fail to write and upload a next article, due perhaps to health or worse. It perhaps almost did this month, were it not for my abrupt realization of the date.
On the other hand, I have a lot of experience with abrupt endings. I can’t guess how many ongoing game campaigns have ended simply because we never scheduled a next session. Just within the past month a player contacted me through another player to ask whether we might revive what was once a live game in my home through a particular internet communications site with which I’ve had trouble in the past. I remember very little of that game (most of the files were updated in 2016) but I’ve got a two-hundred eight page history covering nine game months, so it wouldn’t be impossible. On the other hand, my life has not been conducive to anything orderly of late, so it’s doubtful. It used to bother me when games ended that way–one of the attractions of Multiverser when E. R. Jones asked me to help create it was that the game never ends, but even there I lost touch with my game master and many of my players have lost touch with me, so it seems all games end.
As, I suppose, do all things. This series hasn’t ended–yet; but I do not yet know what I will write for January.
I’m open to suggestions.
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