Tag: Dungeons and Dragons

This was a great session. The party moved on Irontooths hide out. The easily defeated the defense (I did not do a good job drawing the party into the middle–I did almost split the party). Kate played Wakely and Thore, Lisa played Feral and Anabeth (Catrina’s character), Jack played Redtooth and Saber, and I played Nebin–so the party was at full strength and is now at second level.

We started just around 3:00 and played until 5:15.

Lisa was holding the sleeping baby the last hour. Kate and Jack were both happy and played well. A very fun Sunday session.

An interesting session. We started with Kate, Jack, Alex, and Katrina. The girls and boys got in a fight while I was setting up the game and everyone stormed out and played with the hose.

Which was not a bad thing.

It was Redscar, Saber, and Nebin fighting four wounded kobolds. Nebin missed so much we started calling them “nebins” meaning to miss something or someone.

Kobolds were defeated and one was captured–he threatened them with the wraith of Iron Tooth.

Weird Session this time.

Party made some progress–got a map + a not from Sisters of Solonar.

Jack taunted Kate for being a chicken for some goal he had–Kate wanted to go to the temple.

Kate then said she was glad that the Kobolds attacked Redscar and not Thore during the ambush. Jack got angry and quit.

Need to work on that–DM failure–people were not having fun.

This was a very interesting weekend session. We rolled one d20. The Dragon Hunters made no progress in Winterhaven. They had more fun shopping in the market then anything else–the bought flowers, corn, chickens (Wakely the Barbarian Dwarf was crazy about these). The interacted with a lot of the town folk, but did not really get much useful information on either the quests or the general threats.

But they loved it.

Both Jack and Kate thought it was one of the best gaming session ever. Very odd.

I was very critical of my dm’ing–I did not role play women very well, I did not engage in some of the Party decisions all that well. I have a lot of work to do.

First night at Vandale’s–Laski, Watson, and Dunlap the DM.

Here was the Summary going in:
#begin
The town of Stormreach is a hub of mercenary and adventurer activity with the promise of treasure and magic. You’ve each come here seeking your fortune (or perhaps some personal growth and knowledge). The major houses of Eberron have representatives here. House Phiarlan, the halfling house, has posted a profitable job offer and dozens of folks wait eagerly at the Phiarlan representative’s office. After hours of waiting and interviewing, you have been chosen. Some of your tavern associates are here as well! You are taken to a meeting room where an overly serious halfling introduces himself.

“Gentlemen, my name is Crispin Phiarlan. We have a problem that I’m hoping you can make go away. There is a shire on the outskirts of the Searing Heights called ‘The Bake’.” His expression becomes even more serious, to the point of looking ridiculous. “They use the natural lava flows there as ovens and produce much of the bread and pastries we eat in this city. A fire elemental erupted from one of the ovens and destroyed an entire kitchen. Hundreds of gold each day is being lost because of the damage it caused. I cannot express how grave this situation is, gentlemen. The local guards went into the lava tunnels to investigate and didn’t return. We need you to find out what happened to them, and eliminate this elemental before it does any more damage. Are there any questions?”

A chuckling dwarf raises his hand and asks “Will we get paid in cookies as well?”.

The hafling is not amused and two guards immediately escort the dwarf out. You can hear him calling back apologies and saying he needs the coin. They throw him out.

“We’ll pay each of you 600 gold to take care of this situation. 100gp now, and 500gp when you return. We will also provide you with some supplies and transportation. Do we have a deal?”

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Create a level 1 character with all the standard rules for gold and equipment.
In addition, add the following items to your character sheet:
2 potions of cure light wounds
1 potion of fire resistance
1 bag of cookies
+100 gold pieces as early payment
#end

we found a Fire Elemental in the Kitchen. A path of bodies leading to a lair where fire dragon eggs were being hatched. We destroyed 13 eggs and turned two over to the halflings. Simple crawl and we did well.

Continued down the King’s Road to Winterhaven.

Attacked by a spider.

Nebin dropped and dragged into the trees.

Ferril’s spear of faith rules the day.

The Party chats with Farmer Tooks wife and learns that Douven Staul headed for Winterhaven and has not been seen since. The return the last captured vermon to Professor Oak who is sitting with Dr. Parle Cranewing, the noted cartographer, in his camp. Dr. Cranwing offers a significant rewared (and magic mapping paper) if a map of the Keep of Winterhaven can be created.

The party heads out on Kings Road. They are ambused by Kobolds. Significantly improved tactics get them through fairly easily. We break after the battle.

Jack, Kate, Lisa an I played for about three hours. It was good.

This was my first time playing with Cameron’s crew. David was the DM and did a great job running a 10 hour hack fest. Forest was dialed in remotely. Nick, Brent, + Sam were the other player.

I really had a good time + hope to join these guys again. We played at Cameron’s house in Ladero Ranch. In the garage. We had lots of snacks (skittles, diet dr pepper cherry, pringles [bar-b-que + ranch], very spicey gingers, Taco Mesa burrito).

They use map tools and lap tops to do their runs, which I had not done before and it was really fun and intuitive once I got set up–it did take me about 2 hours to get everything configured (I had forgotten to use any of my items!) and I was late as well, so not the smoothest introduction.

I played THE HORN–who just basically ran around smashing things–there was some plot to the adventure, but being new to the group it took me a while to catch on to the roll playing style. I will work on a full update on THE HORN’s blog.

This was a great Friday gaming day. Luis + Alex joined us. The party approached farmer Took’s barn. Kobolds swarmed out (some dressed in Red and others in Orange) along with a fire beetle. The kobolds were crushed by the Dragon Hunters. Another vermin was discovered in the field and captured as well, completing Professor Oak’s quest!

A chest containing a part of a map appeared to be the Kobolds objective. The party also collected two Fire Beetle glands to be used as torches.

Luis drew a picture a round. Jack rolled his first 20.