DM notes: Although I used to play tabletop wargames like Warhammer and Vor the Maelstrom, I have never run mass combat like a castle siege before in Dungeons & Dragons and Professor Dungeon Master’s video on How to Run Mass Combat has provided a fantastic formula to follow. Great way to end this campaign storyline. […]
“No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.” Field Marshal Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke, Chief of Staff of the Prussian General Staff from 1857 to 1871. This was my first time ever running a war in D&D and yes, true to the quote the first […]
As the Frost Giant swung it’s axe, it went far above the head of the party and they quickly regrouped to mount an attack. Kaari went first sprinting towards the back of the room behind the giant. As she left the others behind, she was hit in the back by an unseen force, but kept […]
DM Notes: This game is using elements from two published dungeons, one being “Tower of the Time Wizard” by Andrew Harshman, the other being the Upside-down Tower in Descent to Avernus. Having chased the Abominable Yeti away, our heroes took a breather and looked around in the old ruins that made up part of the […]
Having befriended the Kolbolds and their ruler, the young dragon Desero the Dazzling, the party took a well earned rest in the Sanguine Well oasis. The following day, the party tried to convince Desero to help them in the fast approaching battle with the Drow, but Desero explained that such an act needed to be […]
DM notes: I was asking my wife, one of my players, what to call this chapter and she suggested “smart choices” as the party actually managed to go through the whole game with minimal (and only absolutely necessary) combat. I only realised that at the end when she pointed it out. I was totally blown […]
DM note, my wife and I often sing “Dancing. People” in the style of the song Purple Hat and since I was painting mushroom people, she started going around singing “Mushroom. People”… hence the title 🙂 Seipora, faced with a moving, but chained, mushroom, started talking to the mushroom, while Kaari and Thorgga looked at […]
Having rested up, the heroes had a simple choice: Take the tunnel down in the direction of the fleeing Templar Luminis, or take the tunnel up. After some light (Umberhulk) breakfast and a quick discussion, the heroes chose to go up! DM note, I don’t believe in rearranging encounters so they always show up in the […]
A bit of background story Following their stay in Two Bridges, Seipora Rein, the Tiefling Wild Magic Sorcerer and Hill Dwarf Paladin Torgga The Violator, came upon the island kingdom of Obanastre. Unknown to them, their path would soon cross with that of the local Ranger, the Human Kaari Stormwind. Kaari was a child of […]