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 […]
Primal/Within Chronicles: Election Day, Part Two
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 […]
Primal/Within Chronicles: Election Day, Part One
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 […]
A Dungeon Master’s Toy: How to Host a Dungeon
Caspule Review How to Host a Dungeon is a very clever, dungeon building solo game where you follow the progression of a dungeon and its denizen through a series of ages. Its more of a Sim than a game, but it is a very entertaining concept that leaves you with a side-view dungeon map and […]
Primal/Within Chronicles: The Font of Sorrows, Session 2 Part 2
See part 1, here. City Interlude After having beaten the undead prisoner-guardians of the Font of Sorrows and subduing ‘Spurt’ the enchanted Bulette, our heroes returned to town to complete their rest and return Spurt to its owner. The mad Wizard was relieved to recover his prized pet, although bitterly disappointed to see all the […]
Primal/Within Chronicles: The Font of Sorrows, Session 2 Part 1
Previously in Chatty’s game… Our new band of heroes are hired by the Burgomeister of one of the City Within’s agricultural burgs to investigate the tainting of its water supply. The search lead them into an old Elemental Water temple guarded by spectral water wraiths. After defeating the guardians, our heroes explored further and discovered […]
One-Page Dungeon Contest Update 2: Four on the Template
After 2 weeks, the one-page dungeon contest is revving up nicely. Entries have been coming in at a steady pace from all over the world. Seriously, this week we got entries from Australia, Italy and Germany just to name a few. The dungeons are also very very diverse showing off various genres and themes. I […]
Primal/Within: Some Factions, Sectors and (one) Citizen
You might notice that my empty speech bubble in my blog’s header is no longer empty. Thanks to Eric Maziade, I now have a little plug-in that lets me write quotes! This week is session #2 of my new campaign (if we don’t count the awesome prequel session in the Crypt of the Thief-Prince). My […]
Primal/Within Chronicles: The Font of Sorrow, Part 2
See part 1 here. A Wet and Freezing Welcome The PCs traveled through the Dungeon without any trouble and reached the door that the Elementalists had identified as being the way to the Water Temple. Indeed, a triple-wave design stood on the door and a rapid verification of it showed it to be arcane locked… […]
Primal/Within Chronicles: The Font of Sorrow, Part 1
This is a report of my newest D&D 4e campaign set in the home-brewed Primal Dungeon/City Within campaign. I could see that my players were anticipating the game as emails about PC backstories multiplied like wildfire! All players showed up (s0me had to spend several brownie points to make it) and we got around to […]
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