Monday, December 28, 2009

Planet of the Dragons

...and Dragon Liches, and slavers of unimaginable alien grotesqueness, and vile zombie rot diseases...

Our Year With The Dragon (D&D 4e) continues. Now that we are Paragon (12th level) characters, our challenges have risen to meet our new powers and abilities. Due to zombie rot infecting the party and threatening the only city we have freed from it's zigarut dragon temple, we were forced to once again descend into the depths and find Lady Vizandra's tomb. In our hopes of finding a cure, even leads that brought us into a trap were welcome. Yes, we have fought Neogi and their slaves. Nasty umber hulks. Even a dragon lich. Some tough encounters.

But the biggest insult of all is that the party had to once again plunge the skyless depths of the vile underdark. After lifetimes of striving to escape tunnels, after finally walking the beach of the surface on a sunny day we had no choice but to once again descend to the realm of perilous lava tubes, acid pools and worst of all the home of the Dragon Empire. Worse than that is the knowledge that the Dragons rule the cities of the surface as well, naming each of their carefully divided communities of slaves only by the race that dwells there. Because it was the first city we found, we freed "Lizardtown." We don't even know the name of the world we are saving because the draconic name is unworthy of being revealed to non-dragons, but now to save it from undeath we delve the tunnels below it...

Among the heroes are:
Wikipedia Jones (Mat's human bard 12)
Aurora (Ava's shifter cleric)
Pit Fighter Kamal (Jimmy's 1/2 orc barbarian 12)
Shadow Sticky Fingers (Alma took over Shawn's halfling rogue last time)
Rolen (Carson's half-elf Shaman)
Azer (Phil's human wizard)
Robrik Willikers III (Rod's drow rogue)
Hadji & his dog (Jon's Elf ranger)
Jorel of the Stars (Rob's warforged paladin/sorcerer)
Terra (Chrissy's dwarf rogue)
Shamash Kriv & Fy'Ev (Dave's dragonborn warlord Battle Captain & his dragonborn fighter henchman)
Ella Enchanted (B's Human Fighter, a mounted Polearm Master)

I don't have all your paragon paths here, but I will add them later.