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Tales of the City Within, Session 3: The Final Chapter

July 26, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Disclamer: I take several narrative liberties in my game reports.  While I write what actually happens, I often adapt dialog elements or change some details to make for a better narrative… also, beer tends to fog things up a little. Keeping up Appearances This session was to be the last of our gaming ‘season’.  This […]

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Tales of the City Within, Session 2, Part 2

July 14, 2009 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. A History Lesson from Beyond the Grave The PCs got their info-dump dose from the Dwarf Lich.  The city’s founder explained that the recent discovery of the techniques to manipulate the energies of the Dungeon and the Nexus would enable the PCs to take the fight directly to the Dungeon and […]

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Tales of the City Within, Session 2, Part 1

July 13, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Last Friday we sat down for another session of our Summer mini-campaign set in our homegrown setting of the City Within the Dungeon.  See the reports of the last session here and here. The Myth Debunked. Franky: “Phil, based on some comments we’ve read, many of your readers seem to think that we’re this kind […]

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Tales of the City Within: Session 1, Part 2

July 1, 2009 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. (After writing part 1, I realized that I got the order of how each of the four plots were introduced wrong.  Instead of correcting it, I’ll adjust the tale accordingly. Let’s just assume that the PCs convinced the Drow to give them a few hours’ respite). When the PCs, standing on […]

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Primal/Within Chronicles: A Master’s Wrath, Part 2

June 17, 2009 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. Plot Exposition break Before jumping in the suspended portal standing 15′ over the 1st floor, the PCs rested for a few minutes and searched the Wizard’s lair.  They found that the mad mage had recently abandoned his work on creating enhanced monsters and started focusing on portals. His various research notes […]

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Primal/Within Chronicles: A Master’s Wrath, Part 1

June 16, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Summer always makes gaming a bit harder.  Getting a full group of players becomes a challenge and usually, by the time June hits, I’m well into my annual DM burnout. Weirdly enough, I don’t feel burned out this year.  This is mostly because our current Primal/Withing campaign is so damn fun. This week I found […]

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Primal/Within Chronicles: Say Yes and have Fun! Part 2

June 1, 2009 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. The word of the Spirit After the Ritual was completed and the elemental monsters were vanquished, Dworkin announced that he was now the spokesperson of the Kodiak spirit.  Franky and I had worked out the relationship between his character and the potential spirit beforehand so he explained that from now on, […]

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Primal/Within Chronicles: Say Yes and have Fun! Part 1

May 31, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Previously in Chatty’s game… Our heroes are hired by a mercenary outfit to protect the lives of four City Within candidate in a one-day campaign/election of the city’s newest burg.  Thought wheeling and dealings, criss-crossed agendas, monsters gone wild and delusional candidates, our heroes are caught in this electoral storm and try their best to […]

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Primal/Within Chronicles: Election Day, Part Two

May 19, 2009 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. Morning Plenary The second scene of the evening was a plenary where the voters and candidates mingled during a luxurious breakfast set in a specially-built area of Delve #57.  The PCs were there as all other security and support staff. For the next 45-60 minutes, I let my players play out […]

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Primal/Within Chronicles: Election Day, Part One

May 17, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Previously in Phil’s game: Our Heroes fought some undead captives charged with protecting the Font of Sorrows.  Later, Spurt the Silvered Bulette found them and they managed to subdued it.  Exploring the water temple chaos further, they discovered a passage to the High Priest’s crypt where they fought a giant undead tree and a pair […]

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