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Primal/Within: Showdown at the Castle of the Overmind, Part 3

Part 1 and Part 2. Last Friday’s session was the final confrontation of the campaign.  It was supposed to be an Epic battle between an Avatar of the setting’s  sentient Dungeon and the PCs. I had a game plan, but it didn’t play out as I wanted…again. The fight ended up being hard and climactic… [...]

Primal/Within: Showdown at the Castle of the Overmind, Part 2

See part 1 here. These last 2 sessions were marked with strong, not so positive emotions on my part.  At the end of session one, I couldn’t believe that we played so little (we started at 7h00-7h30 and ended at around 9h45).  At the end of session two, I was downright angry (and vocally so) [...]

Primal/Within: Showdown at the Castle of the Overmind, Part 1

(This post covers my last two D&D 4e games) Last Friday we concluded our longest D&D 4e campaign yet, clocking it somewhere between 16 and 20 game sessions (almost one year). In order to make posts length easier to manage, here’s the ultra condensed story. Campaign Finale: Redux Using a mysterious 4 part key collected [...]

City of the Overmind: Nipples of Chaos, Part 2

See part 1 here. Cursed item to the rescue! The session’s first scene was eventually concluded with the adventure more or less back on track. We had a 20′ tall Flaming Angel instead of a draconic blob.  I was cool with that.  Heck, I would have been happy with the Marshmallow Colossus from Ghostbusters as [...]

City of the Overmind: The Nipples of Chaos, Part 1

Chatty DM (wiping laughter tears ):  Guys! Enough with the nipple jokes!  I think I’m going to put that into the game report’s title. Mike: You’d never dare, this stuff is always left out your reports. Chatty DM: Just watch me… This last game session was a strange, strange beast.  On the one hand, we [...]

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