The team is gathering at their HQ for a weekly meeting to set patrol schedules, review police calls in the area, etc. Before the meeting, Vinny is leaning back watching TV on one of the monitors the given to them by the East Coast Protectors. A commercial comes on: “Do you have an awesome superpower […]
Chapter 12 – The Busiest of Bodies Read More »
Since our D&D campaign is so far based on published adventures, I won’t be posting about it as frequently or in as much detail as for the Mighty Protectors campaign. Instead, there will be periodic progress updates with notes and highlights. Spoilers for the Starter Set adventure will likely abound below. I was concerned that
Lost Mines of Phandelver, Parts 1 & 2 Read More »
(In which our heroes go car shopping.) With Busybody on maternity leave, the D-Listers no longer have regular access to her cleaning-business van to get around in – and it’s probably past time they upgraded, anyway. Pooling their money, and with Vinny offering to contribute extra to the purchase and a paint job, the team
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I picked up the D&D Starter Set over the holidays to use as a launching point to re-introduce myself to the game and introduce my players to it. That campaign hasn’t actually started yet, mainly because I’m incapable of leaving it alone and just playing it as initially presented. My players are new to actually
Hacking Phandelver Read More »
I mentioned elsewhere that my family picked up the 5th Edition D&D Starter Set over the holidays, partly because we wanted to diversify into something more fantasy-oriented without me having to go through the effort of creating a whole meta-universe inside of Mighty Protectors to do so (again!) and partly just to take advantage of
As characters approach the Stormfort they can see its three tiers from the distance. A wide open gate leads to a wide first level from which rises an outcropping with a smaller secondary keep built on top. From there extends a tall, narrow tower, the windows of whose top room emit a glow bright enough
Chapter 10, Part IV – The Stormfort Read More »
Now that the PCs have acquired the three keys necessary to open the sealed entrance, they must venture through the dwarven city of Birn Tharin to reach their ultimate destination, the Stormfort. “Birn Tharin? It’s been closed from this side of the mountains for centuries, but rumors come sometimes from travelers who’ve visited the far
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As characters depart for this destination, Tunaan says, “As a rule the dark elves seldom dwell above ground because they hate the sunlight. But they needed a fortress in a strategic location with a safe harbor for trade, and that location was unfortunately ringed in swampland which made cave delving impossible. So they built a
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For this session I wanted to try out the Pathfinder Flip Tiles I mentioned having bought recently. Prepping the map for this one involved playing with the tiles while nobody was around, and taking a photo of the layout I decided to go with. Then I opened the photo up in a paint program and
Chapter 10, Part II – The Crypts of Aobos Read More »
At the end of Part I, the players were asked to choose from among the three scenarios in part II they’d prefer to do first. It’s also the one requiring the most extensive planning and written up in the most detail. After working on it on and off for about a week, I stayed up
Chapter 10, Part II – The Spire of Learning Read More »