Monthly Archives: October 2020

541 CY, New Players in the Shield Lands Campaign

The campaign centers around the Halls of Tirian Teyzuren, north of Yellowreach in the Shield Lands, in Greyhawk (south of White Plume Mountain). We play every Saturday night from 6-10 pm EST. Read the initial post about the campaign to … Continue reading

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541 CY, Wash that spell right outta your head

In D&D1e, you can only put so many spells in your spellbook, and it is based on your INT. But why? You can Write spells you don’t know into there, but somehow there is a maximum on the spells in … Continue reading

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541 CY, The Party returns to Greyhawk

Lisri, Catrick, Raylene, and Havic hid in the goblin’s tunnels from the Overlord’s servants. They hired the goblins to dig another tunnel around the Lightning Rats and into the unused library in the bottom level of the School of Ancient … Continue reading

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Roll20 RPG Survey

I ran a brief survey on Roll20 and a few Facebook RPG sites where I knew there were Roll20 players. Here are the results, with 31 respondents. If you did not yet reply and wanted to, please go to the … Continue reading

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541 CY, Catrick on the Run

After wandering the town casting Locate Objects, Lisri finally learns that the Ring of Mirrors is in one of the lower levels of the School of Ancient Knowledge. Since the party has joined the Thieves’ Guild, they know that the … Continue reading

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Navah, The Spider under the Giant’s Bed

The party rested and then again quested under the bed. Traversing the Lake of Beer, they pushed forward through passageways defined by stinking socks and underwear. Several packs of giant rats were fought, these being nine feet long without the … Continue reading

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541 CY, The Shrine of Bandorak, and the death of Sir Quackers

The players started with a variety of meetings around town. Catrick set up a shrine to Bandorak in the southeast side of town, hired a keeper named Slacoff, and hired a local kid named Lairk to keep an eye on … Continue reading

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MERP – Drogo’s Aerie, Nabal Mayzri, Rhunaer

My character was Drogo Longfoot, Hobbit mage. He was named Drogo before I saw Game of Thrones, so I reserve the right to maintain the name. 🙂 Drogo retired to a stone tower just west of Nabal Mayzri. He is … Continue reading

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MERP: The Sea of Rhûn

My friend Matt ran a MERP campaign around the Sea of Rhûn back in 2018. He started with the campaign The Inland Sea by Mike Campbell, Luke Potter and Justin Morgan-Davies. I put together a timeline based on the information … Continue reading

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541 CY, A Difficult Battle, and a Hidden Hoard

While the rest of the party healed, Lisri conducted some investigations around town. When he visited the Torture Shop, he found that Hiss Basilar knew the torturer with the vampire squirrel tattoo, whom Hiss identified as Jim Harbuck. Hiss didn’t … Continue reading

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