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DM Chronicles: Session 6: When Fun Trumps Story, Part 2

December 30, 2008 by The Chatty DM

See part one here. After some discussions, the party set out for Thunderspire Mountain.  I described what Fizban (eleven Wizard) knew about it since we established that he had visited it before in his researches. That’s when I gave the players a rundown on the setting’s background:  Old Minotaur city now called the Labyrinth, denizens […]

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DM Chronicles: Session 6, When Fun Trumps Story, Part 1

December 29, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Heya all, I more or less expected to stop playing from late November until mid January. However, by a strange coincidence, we all (i.e. the 6 players and myself) managed to be free on December 19th! Joy! Warming up with  the Band! Some of the group made it to Math’s early enough so we could […]

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DM Chronicle: Session 5, Alien Feys & Whiskered Pirates, Part 2

November 19, 2008 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. Scene 3: White Rage! After a night where the PCs slept warily on the bridge of the ship the PCs spotted a winged creature flying toward them.  It was a large White Dragon with a human pirate riding it. Screaming in draconic about ‘finally getting a prize worth taking’ the dragon […]

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DM Chronicle: Session 5, Alien Feys & Whiskered Pirates, Part 1

November 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Previously in Chatty’s Game: Our Heroes battled a pirate Scholar and her Dragon Pet only to see her escape at the last second before defeat.  Alone against a city of angry Ape Men, they almost managed to turn them to their cause only to be defeated by a crazed zealot and his retinue of elite […]

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DM Chronicle: Session 4, This.Is.Epic! Part 2

October 23, 2008 by The Chatty DM

See Part 1 here. Rumble in the Temple! Now that Dragora had finished saying what she had to say, the PCs attacked. Or maybe she did, I forget, these accounts are not renowned for their journalistic accuracy. Dragora was a level 7 soldier based on the Fighter Template. I added 3 Zain-Kin minions and one […]

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DM Chronicle: Session 4, This.is.Epic! Part 1

October 21, 2008 by The Chatty DM

(You know what I miss in this blog?  Me being chatty like hell… time to change that!) Previously in Chatty’s Game: Our heroes discovered an ancient Serpent Temple where lost magic was recovered from the coils of spectral ophidian guardians. Following sinuous caverns, they came upon an opening high over the ruins of a Lost City inhabited […]

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DM Chronicles: Session 3, Snaking Toward the Lost City of ‘Meh’

October 8, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Previously in Chatty’s game: Dodging rolling boulders and fighting technicolor giant snakes, our heroes explore the depth of the recently uncovered ruins of a lost civilization.  They are seeking who or what sent an Ape Man assassin against them. There’s no reason to beat my DM head against the table and implore all the saints […]

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DM Chronicles: Session 2, Indiana Gnomes and the Technicolor Snake, Part 2

September 25, 2008 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. Spiders Blind, Strikers Shine! Fresh victim of the fiendish rolling boulder trap, Yan’s Bjerm the Fighter fell 50’… Only to land unhurt on a huge spider web while pieces of granite were punching through it left and right. As he got up, he noticed 3 Human-sized bristly spiders (a new monster […]

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DM Chronicles: Session 2, Indiana Gnomes and the Technicolor Snake, Part 1

September 24, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Previously in Chatty’s game (Part 1 and Part 2): A group of young adventurers gets invited to the Harvest festivities by the region’s biggest Halfling Robber Baron after saving one of his numerous Coastal Venture Forts from the hated Human pirates. Late after the day’s festivities, they get attacked by an Ape Man assassin whose […]

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DM Chronicles: Session 1, That’s how you start a Campaign! Part 1

September 1, 2008 by The Chatty DM

DM Chronicles, along my Adventure Prep posts are my longest running series on the Blog.  The Chronicles are a DM’s report of my D&D game that I run twice a month from September to June every year.  This year marks our 9th straight year playing with the same core group and my 1st D&D 4e […]

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