DM Chronicles 16: Are we there yet?
Having been playfully accused of doing some heavy comment baiting this week, here’s a more mundane campaign log! 
The RPG season is winding down.
Like some of my blogging buddies, we’re slowly getting ready to call it quits and it shows in our games. Still we managed to have a good time last Friday.
Let’s dig in shall we?
Last time, we left our heroes right inside Zelatar, the city of Demon Price Gratzz that covers three layers of the Abyss.
The PCs needed to find an Ambassador of Orcus, the Demon Lord of the undead. They hoped to retrieve a way to enter the deeper Demonwebs and disrupt Lolth latest scheme (and as a side quest, save their world from absorption into the Abyss).
I was upfront with the players and I asked them how they wanted to go at it in such an hostile environment and they all agreed that they’d prefer being discreet and avoid combat at all costs.
I was all for that. [Read the rest of this article]
And now a little Farniente
If y’all don’t mind, I’m going to take a night off and enjoy the ride this blog has become lately for 24 hours or so.
What with the contest and all, the Chatty minions have literally taken over and I love it!
Great thanks to Shamus Young, Jeff Rients, Johnn Four and all the other cool bloggers who have linked to this blog in the last few weeks and brought so many new readers.
Ah yes, please note that Lijit search has been broken for some time, apparently Google has re-indexed my blog in some weird way (maybe because I got a bump to a page-rank of 4?). They are working on it and I’ll let you know when it does.
I’ll re-instate the default search widget for the time being.
Peace out!
Jeez, Just Wait 'til you Get to Liberty City…
Obviously, Joe and Hill-rod are correct about video games!
10 Word Adventures Contest at ChattyDM
Phil the Chatty DM is holding a contest to get adventure synopses/hooks. The only catch? They have to be exactly 10 words.
Yours truly will be helping to judge, so head over there now and give me tons of good stuff to look at! (And steal ideas from!)
Stealing a good idea: The 10 words adventure synopsis
In order to make up for my militant rant of last night, I thought I’d steal Penny Arcade’s excellent concept and give out a little brainstorming writing assignment for your RPG campaign and then share it
Here’s the assignment, write an adventure concept (any genre) in exactly 10 words and post it in the comments. Believe me, I sent in two entries to the PA contest and it’s hard to do.
Let’s make this a contest shall we? I’m opening it up for 1 full week starting on Noon EST of April 29th until the same time next week (May 6th). You enter by posting your entry in the comments here.
The best one will get a choice of a D&D mini Dungeon of Dread booster or an equivalent value Gift Certificate from DrivethruRPG.
For the contest to be valid, I need at least 20 entries from 20 different people. There are currently 265 RSS subscribers on this blog so I think it’s feasible to hope for a 7-10% participation.
You can submit multiple entries.
If I don’t get enough, I’ll still post the best entries in a later post with credits.
Actually, regardless of how it goes, I’d probably make a selection of entries (or all of them) into a PDF and offer it for free. Therefore, please note that while I will credit your entry by your true name or internet moniker, I get the rights to the entries. I don’t plan on selling any of this though.
Heres a few examples to get you started:
- Help tiefling bastard daughter of snobby paladin quests for Birthright.
- Castle falls from sky, PCs must uncover where it’s from (Contractions count for one word ok?)
- Dragon ate poisonous cursed gnome, will trade hoard for relief
- Barbarian posse drops in hell, kick Diabolic Ass, take over (Perfect for Broadsword)!
I know you can do better!
Sound off! Tell your friends, pimp that contest abroad!
Edit:
Dave the Game of Critical-hits and Jeff Rients have offered to be judges. Better shape up cuz these guys are good!
This is shaping up to be a lot more popular than I expected. If any Sponsors wants to step up to sweeten the prize deal it would be great, contact me at chattydm@chattydm.net, I’d be willing to add a permanent link of your organization in this post!
Want to see the entries in a more Digestible form? See here. The list is updated periodically as the contest progresses.
Also have a look at the Random Adventure Synopsis Generator Tommi created with the entries!
Prizes have been offered by Kobold Quarterly, Wee!!
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