Dragonborn City

update on a couple of Planet of the Dragons sessions)
So Bane and his armies attacked Tiamat and his armies at the Dragonborn City. Action to be had, fates to be decided, fortunes to be won. Of course the Uprisers had a role to play. But not just to be patsies for Bane (well except maybe Hadji).
Anyway, Shamash, Aurora, Jones, Valda, Hadji and Nex (Phil’s lightning sorcerer shapechanger) and some allies went after one of the Dragonborn city provinces with an especially bad reputation for torturing slaves. Challenge rating-wise, we were above our heads in places but we made it through the encounter and gained some ground. It was a tough one but the party made a difference and now controls a province. Oh and we each gained a 21st level magic item.

(above is just a recap of the adventure Dave ran a couple weeks ago; Phil ran yesterday – see below).

In yesterday’s session, it became more personal. One of Bane’s generals went rogue, stole Bane’s (artifact) Mace and declared himself a god. He captured a province also and now has 5 generals of his own. So Bane wants his mace back, and he’s asked Hadji to deliver since we’re right there. We fought dragonborn, reavers or ravagers or something, a dracolich, and even a couple of beholders. It was Shamash and four strikers: Hadji, Sticky Fingers, Nex and Valda. It was brutal. We used every combo, magic item and tactic we could think of, hitting hard but giving ourselves chances to recover in a series of encounters. Shamash was bloodied at least twice, as were Valda and Hadji. Valda charging on her griffin in combo with Shamash is becoming quite effective and Hadji combines with Sticky Fingers and Foxy to defeat even the toughest adversaries. Some other combos and magic items are turning out to be handy, for example flying (hover, from a potion) with reach, from above a foe, and augmenting whetstones (though they can be expensive). In the end, we defeated the leader of another province on a small island (adjacent to the other province from the session previous). We now “control” it too, though the party is not in the business of ruling territory.
Anyway, between the two adventures (mostly from the 2nd one) we got just enough experience to level to 19th.
Also, we picked up one 18th and one 22nd level magic item each, as well as 17,000 gp each.
Please note that our next session will be March 26th.

10th Edition + B-Team & Birthdays

Happy Birthday Carson & Dave!

To celebrate we had a whole day of gaming last Saturday, and it was great! Thank you Ava for the awesome cake and Jon for bringing a box of 10th Edition Magic, the draft was fantastic. 'Grats Mat on beating us all with that blue/green deck. Nothing like getting hit by a Rhox and shut down with counterspells, except maybe a Craw Wurm with shimmering wings flying over. To the rest of us losers, well it was fun, good effort. Phil, Jon and Dave had winning records and Patrick, Ava and Penny/B. didn't do as well but everybody got at least a win or two in. I was able to draft mono red, which is unheard of usually. I like 10th Edition, it's kind of like a "greatest hits" of Magic cards, with some great rares and even some stuff I hadn't seen before.

Congratulations to Rod on getting into UW Law School, that's an achievement of a lifetime and we are all very proud of you.

For B-Team, B. ran and it was very good. We had a great time defeating the evil wizard king and the dragon and their multiple minions; it always feels good to save the town. Player-wise we were joined by Alma, Rod, Rob and Carson.

We are now all level 3 in the B Team campaign, and we each ended up getting one 4th and one 5th-level magic item and 750 gp in monetary treasure.

I will be updating this later.

Next session in a couple of weeks, probably the Uprisers (the 18th level characters).

Star Wars and Magic

So a couple sessions ago we played Star Wars. The crew of Akbar's Trap found themselves on a watery world, embroiled in heavy fighting between allied Hutt and New Republic forces against a resurgent Empire. Lots of stuff was blowing up. The punchline? Garik set up more trade deals, Pieda healed some people, the Trandosian and the clone lightsabered some bad guys, Roger Roger got in a toe to toe fight with another droid and won by attritian, the Bothan gathered intel. Oh, and of course in the end Destro snuck into the enemy base, sabotaged the stabilizers and hijacked the PA system, announced an evacuation then radioed the star destroyer in orbit to turbolaser the deserters. Which they did. Everybody should still be 12th level.

Last session, a lot of people couldn't make it so we played Magic and I tested a few new decks. Pretty fun. Thank you Jon and Phil.

Next session: Sat., Feb. 5th. We will probably play "B team" but bring everything anyway in case that changes.

G A L L E R Y

Character cartoons by Carson, and a couple sample stat cards. I use the everliving crap out of index cards for D&D. And yes, some sessions I don't crack a book open.

Awesome work Carson. Somewhere there are more of these -- I guess I'll post them later, if and when I find them.

-Dave