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This post has taken way longer than I intended. A combination of a busy schedule and having too many disparate thoughts has resulted in it being dragged through most of the...
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SummaryI decided to run the excellent Slumbering Ursine Dunes by Chris Kutalik as a casual pick up game while I am busy with family stuff. Here's how the first of (what I am...
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SummaryThe campaign goes on pause and the Hedgehogs of Mercy settle in after the big battle. Characters Shimsusa the Archer - 3rd Level Fighter Enlil - 1st Level Elementalist...
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SummaryWe play out the big fight between the forces of Chaos and the Undying City's defenders using a tabletop wargame that I created for the scenario. Session RecapWell...
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As a direct result of the actions of the players in my current campaign, the Undying City now has a fairly sizeable strike force (calling them an army might be giving them too...
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Time for another review! And since I just finished re-reading Muster, let’s talk about it! This is going to be a bit more rambling as a review than the two modules I did,...
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SummaryA side-story set a week before the previous session of characters heading out of the Undying City to figure out where the barbarians that keep attacking it are, what...
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This came to me as an idea originally when I was watching this excellent video about the history of alignment and the planes. Go check it out! So, Alignment. I know, right?!...Linked by the ring
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SummaryThis session was mostly confused on the final preparations for storming the inner gatehouse of the Eternal Bridge, and the actual fight itself and its consequences....
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Look at how boring this all is! Nobody is using feats or special moves or anything! It has taken a while to write this post, mostly because I have tried to somehow form my...Linked by the ring
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SummaryThe Hedgehogs of Mercy return to their home in the Undying City, after a cryptic and urgent missive from Bel of the Lotus, the vampire they freed months ago. Turns out...
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SummaryThe characters return to free the Sea Nymph and there is a sudden and shocking death of a party member as they do it. Characters Athra - 4th level Fighter + Gal-Naha -...
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Hey time to talk about another module I really like, and call it a review! Since I mentioned it already in my previous one, I figured I’d write up my thoughts on Prison of the...
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SummaryThe party follows up on the last lead they have, have run-ins with ghouls and a rather demanding and haughty Sea Nymph. They also make friends with a water elemental....
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I’m going to talk about a module I really like, so let’s call this a review! This is going to be about Tomb Robbers on the Crystal Frontier by Gus L. I have read the module,...
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I've been wanting to have a way to streamline some of the combat in my OD&D campaign, namely reduce the number of rolls involved in the close quarters combat phase, where you...
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SummaryThe PC's travel to a new town to investigate rumors of a bronze colossus, but things don't quite go as planned, mostly due to me reading the dungeon wrong. Characters...
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My party has recently traveled down the Serpent of Smoke in search for some more adventure locations, and have set up shop in a city near the edge of the jungle - the Bastion...
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SummaryA session of downtime activities including, but not limited to - summoning demons, negotiating with barbarians, gathering a huge posse and having a big ol' fight with a...
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These session recaps and overviews somehow keep getting longer and longer. I am not entirely happy with that, so I'll try and keep this one as short as possible, while also...
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This weekend I resumed my weekly game, after a few weeks of off time around the holiday season. As usual below will be a quick recap of what happened, and my observations and...
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Another Sunday, another game of Between the Serpents of Smoke & Steel. Since this is going to be the last session for the year (the campaign being on hold until January because...
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Slime Priests are mortal followers of a Chaos Lord referred to as The Decomposition. They occupy a strange space in their Lord's army of followers, due to their blessing and...
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Today we had session 2 of my campaign, and here is a quick recap and observations on it. SummaryThe PCs head back to the dungeon from last session to try and retrieve the...
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Some of you may have heard me mention about how this or that thing is going into my OD&D Box. For a while that was mostly metaphorical, as I didn't actually have a box to keep...
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Today was the inaugural session of my new campaign - Between the Serpents of Smoke & Steel (BSSS for short). I've been posting a few things about it here as it approached, so...
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BSSS Header Here is a very rough primer on the setting for my campaign, Between the Serpents of Smoke & Steel (either BSSS or just Smoke and Steel for short from now on). This...
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BackgroundThe Undying City wasn't always called that, of course. It was renamed after the fall of the empire as a move of political propaganda, as the city was one of the last...
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Let's get this out of the way - This is going to be a deeply self-indulgent post. I am writing this thing mostly since I've had to explain it in a few places just to help clear...
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Since Between the Serpents of Smoke & Steel will be using Wonder & Wickedness for its magic system I had to address the question of Catastrophes. Now, I do think the...