Tuesday, 29 May 2018
Session 11 of Rise of the RuneLords in 5e
Cast of Heroes
Session Nine
Session Ten
Riding down to the coast the party quickly made it to Foxglove manor, the wild life, mostly crows were eerily silent and rousted all over a old building just before the manor. They cleared the area from all the rubble and found a old water well, Mac cast light on a stone and dropped it in, guessing that it was a 40 or 50 foot drop, they continued on to the Manor. Once they finished investigating the outside perimeter they went onto the front porch and used the key they found on the ghoul that once was Rogors Craesby.
The door opened and the mildew,dust and despair and meet them at portal to this old house, a stuffed manticore just stared at them, a faint sound of a woman crying came from somewhere upstairs.
Going systematically through room to room activated the ghostly haunts waiting in each of the rooms, a choking scarf, a ghostly apparition, dancing with the same apparition, being choked by an invisible creature, frightened ghostly children all but terrified the group. In time they found and released the revenant of the person they believed to be the murderers wife.
She flew into a rage and smartly the party stood back as she ran down the hallway and stairs and begun destroying the floor on the main level of the manor. She was leading them into the unknown?
As she flung wood boards from the floor into the air, a large hole appeared in the foundation underneath the manor, a dozen feet below crude stairs were cut from the foundation of the very rocks that formed beneath them.
Entering the darkness below, the surf could be heard in the distance and a gang of ghouls attacked the party, they were dispatched quickly.
The party entered into a large chamber, lit my phosphorous molds, they witnessed the Revenant down an incline begin battering on a stone store with goblins standing back from her. She was 25 feet down a spiral slope that followed the walls of this camber until it hit sea level.
Charles led the charge, he fell flat on his face and slide into the wall as it curved ever so down till it reached 50 feet below in the rising and falling of the tidal waters of the Varisian Bay, the cavern floor was slick with dampness.As Toucan began to move a sound came from the cavern next to Mac.
Ulfgar changed into a dire wolf and moved past him more cautiously, just then a second pack of ghouls emerged from the camber to attack the priest and monk.
Mac was attacked and left paralyzed with fear.
Charles & Ulfgar attacked in confidence, but then realizing that the goblins did not attack her not as they were afraid but because they were undead themselves, four goblin ghasts to be correct, thinking it would be making short work of the little brutes was harder then expected.
As two fell, the Revenant was almost through the door, Toucan sprung across the water to his horror he made a large splash as he failed his acrobatics check.
Just then a screech disrupted the cavern causing ear drums to pop, only Ulfgar was damaged by this foul creatures roar but the group pulled together and took on this beast, Charles & Toucan engaged it as screams came from the room beyond,
Not only was this bat of enormous size it was also undead, a ghoul dire bat, skaveling they are called took a beating from the combined attacks of Toucan & Charles, Ulfgar turned to his dwarf self as his dire wolf part was heavily damaged in the fight with the ghasts & skaveling. The skaveling took to the air and blasted the party with another screech, this time no one was affected.
The Revenant went into the room and began arguing with someone, something? Most could not be heard as the echo from the last screech was bouncing around the cavern affecting everyone's hearing.
Once Toucan entered the room, he saw Aldern the man he saved from the goblin attack on sandpoint had been turned into a ghoul and his pet ghasts attacked the women that had led them down into this place of evil.
Once the women Revenant fell Mac dropped a fireball in the room but not before Toucan became the victim to a shadow that seemed to be trapped in a mold growing on the wall, he began licking and eating the mold.
Once the skaveling fell, Ulfgar entered the room and changed into a giant Octopus and held Aldern down till the group took his life.
Thursday, 24 May 2018
Paizo Pawns in D&D 5e part 2
Part one is here, part one
Using Pathfinder Products in D&D 5e
Here are a list of Pawns that are available for sale, don't be overwhelmed by the amount, I will explain a few of these here,
pathfinder/accessories/miniatures/pawns
Paizo releases a Pathfinder Adventure Path once a month, they colour code and number them on release, so that a six issue run will take characters from levels one to eighteen in the Pathfinder game.
I have run one Adventure Path and currently running a second in Dungeons & Dragons 5e using the story set out in the Adventure Paths but using the D&D 5e engine.
Paizo sells separate sets of Pawns that follow adventure paths, they do come with bases so the Bestiary Box or buying the bases separate is a must, I have a $1 cheap mans fix which I will show later. These smaller pawn sets add to the bestiary box, so if in the adventure path you need 14 goblins the bestiary box comes with 4 goblins the AP supplement (in this case Rise of the Rune Lords) adds another 10 goblin pawns.
Rise of the RuneLords Pawn set
Rise-of-the-Runelords-Pawn-Collection
I project images from a projector and use miniatures and pawns in my game. I have over 2000 miniatures but if I did not I would only have party members in my game as actual miniatures. The rest would be pawns.
Below the picture shows a few pawns with miniatures in one of are games.
Next we will look at how I mark my bases when you have to many of the same miniatures or pawns on the table.
Using Pathfinder Products in D&D 5e
Here are a list of Pawns that are available for sale, don't be overwhelmed by the amount, I will explain a few of these here,
pathfinder/accessories/miniatures/pawns
Paizo releases a Pathfinder Adventure Path once a month, they colour code and number them on release, so that a six issue run will take characters from levels one to eighteen in the Pathfinder game.
I have run one Adventure Path and currently running a second in Dungeons & Dragons 5e using the story set out in the Adventure Paths but using the D&D 5e engine.
Paizo sells separate sets of Pawns that follow adventure paths, they do come with bases so the Bestiary Box or buying the bases separate is a must, I have a $1 cheap mans fix which I will show later. These smaller pawn sets add to the bestiary box, so if in the adventure path you need 14 goblins the bestiary box comes with 4 goblins the AP supplement (in this case Rise of the Rune Lords) adds another 10 goblin pawns.
Rise of the RuneLords Pawn set
Rise-of-the-Runelords-Pawn-Collection
I project images from a projector and use miniatures and pawns in my game. I have over 2000 miniatures but if I did not I would only have party members in my game as actual miniatures. The rest would be pawns.
Below the picture shows a few pawns with miniatures in one of are games.
Next we will look at how I mark my bases when you have to many of the same miniatures or pawns on the table.
Wednesday, 23 May 2018
The Nightmare Underneath
Met up with an old friend and possible 3 new friends and made characters for The Nightmare Underneath rules but will be set in the Witch video game world.
The good news is I know nothing of the game but what I have scene my oldest playing on the Xbox, I do enjoy going into a game know absolutely nothing of the world but what is told to me. We will be using the Nightmare Underneath for it and it is set 80+ years after the game ended, so Witcher are almost no more.
This is my second group that I got into and will be gaming more and will be a littler happier now that I can sit back and enjoy something new.
Made a Wizard and will devour the rules after this weekend.
The good news is I know nothing of the game but what I have scene my oldest playing on the Xbox, I do enjoy going into a game know absolutely nothing of the world but what is told to me. We will be using the Nightmare Underneath for it and it is set 80+ years after the game ended, so Witcher are almost no more.
This is my second group that I got into and will be gaming more and will be a littler happier now that I can sit back and enjoy something new.
Made a Wizard and will devour the rules after this weekend.
The Days Log
What I did today?
- Listening to: Glass Cannon Podcast eps.141 & Runes of Azlant Eps. 1
- Reading: Pathfinder Chronicles into the darklands & all the blog adventures at creightonbroadhurst.com, touched on The Nightmares Underneath
- Watching: Nothing, my wife is soaking up 13 reasons why season 2
- Playing: D&D 5e in Golarion world & The nightmare Underneath set in the Witcher world.
- Eating: sausages for dinner tonight
- Drinking: water
- Discussion: The new couches arrived today.
Bought a few books today.
Shipping Mummy's Mask book 6
Shipping Runes of Azlant book 5
Waiting for the IronFang Pawns to arrive
last 4 books of Jade Regent
last 2 books of Winters Reign
books 4&5 of Mummy's Mask
All 6 books of Wrath of the Righteous (this is a maybe)
last 3 books of Hells Rebels
book 1 of War for the crown (Flags you failed me)
Map Folios,
Mummy's Mask (Flags you failed me)
IronFang Invasion (Flags you failed me)
Adventure Path Pawn sets,
Stranger Aeons (Flags you failed me)
Ruins of Azlant (not released)
Saturday, 19 May 2018
Session ten of Rise of the RuneLords in 5e
Cast of Heroes Heroes
With everything sorted out in town between helping out the survivors,putting down the ghoul incursion of Hambley farm, restocking supplies and finding a residence for a stone giant the group rested the evening and sent out again in the morning the the Foxglove manor.
Urathos watched while leaning on the glassworks factory as the group that just saved him rode down market street and out across the bridge to take the lost coast road, he turned around to watch the waves roll in across the Varisian Bay, this was the first time he had been to the coast, he heard of it but seeing is different then listening to the stories.
Urathos turned towards the movement to his right and a women and dwarf were watching him and the dwarf had nothing but contempt in his face, the women said something to the dwarf, the dwarf nodded and went inside, the dwarf stowed the bundle she had given him in his satchel turned and walked away. Urathos,turned and tried to walk with the help of the building, with only one leg it was a struggle.
The dwarven guildmaster of the carpenters guild took his mornings breakfast from the Sandpoint Savories Bakery, they make a good loaf of bread Aesrick thought, just then the boom of a footstep caused them both to turn see a stone giant balancing on the ruins of the glassworks.
"Good Day, master Aesrick, I must get inside, more work is needed" said Aneka, she looked one last time at the new neighbor and walked past her mother sitting on the rocking chair, Aneka placed a hand on her mothers shoulder and went inside.
Aesrick nodded to her turned and thought that those damn adventures will be the death of this town yet.
Mac, Toucan, Charles & Ulfgar rode out of town on the lost coast road early this fine morning day, the date was Sarenith 12th.
The paddy wagon moved out once again, This is the stuff that my group does, Sound of the Police
As the group rolled up to Foxglove Manor, it was perched upon the cliff as if ready to jump in and the first thing they noticed was the burned remains of a old servants quarters, they dismounted and searched the area of the old quarters.
Charles uncovered an old well in the ruins, after clearing the opening they peered down the hole trying to gain insight of what was down this old unused source of water. Ulfgar began to notice that ravens had begun gathering in, at first a large number and were quiet, disturbingly silent.
They walked up to the house and noticed how unkempt and entering were immediately welcomed by a manticore, yet this was a stuffed manticore.
The ceiling sagged, stains covered the walls and floors, timbers rotting and dampness were every where the party went from room to room trying to find clues as to where Aldern could be?
Sunday, 13 May 2018
Re-Skinning Monster
I have used this method for as long as I can remember doing so back in my AD&D days.
You take a creature, change what it looks like and play it how you want it to be. Make sense?
It's so simple even my son is doing it in his Ruins of Atlant 5e game.
In most of my games I run I start he players off at third level with zero experience, what that means is you play level 3 characters till you get enough experience for fourth level. It only adds two extra sessions to the whole ordeal and makes the characters a little beefier.
The first encounter takes place on a boat as they leave a ship going towards the coast and the type of creature that attacks the group are Grindylow
Imagine half-octopus goblins, how do you make a Grindylow in D&D 5e?
Take the goblin from Monster Manual page 166, you add amphibious (can breath air and water) to the goblin template, change the movement on land to 15ft, keep the sea movement the same as listed in the MM (30ft), lose the short bow (you gave it amphibious, I'm just trying to take a little more from it for balance, you can easily keep the bow), change the scimitar to a short spear, it does the same damage but it piercing now.
I have a sea goblin now!
The tentacles are nothing but thematic for the DM/GM to add to the story and have a cool way for the bad guy to get to know the player characters 😏
Lets do this to a Orc,
Orc is on page 246 of the Monster Mannual, you add amphibious (can breath air and water),we remove the javelin (you gave it amphibious, I'm just trying to take a little more from it for balance, you can easily keep the javelin), change the movement on land to 15ft, keep the sea movement the same as listed in the MM (30ft), change the greataxe to a greatspear spear, it does the same damage but it piercing now.
I have sea Orcs, well they would look differently but I have tougher Grindylow
Now you have the same Grindylow that is a challenge 1 monster instead of the challenge 1/4 for a goblin. It is still small (you can make it medium size if you want to).
You can do the same with the Ogre template, to make a small Grindylow that can challenge characters of levels that are higher.
You can even use the Giant Octopus from the Monster Manual page 326, you just make the upper half of the body like the picture and bump the INTELLIGENCE SCORE by one point to 5 to match an Ogre INT score.
The best thing about Re-skinning is that one player you have that always knows what to do against certain monster as they read the monster manual, will be totally blind as you re-skinned everything and they are unaware of what you are doing.
Time off?
I have had two weeks off and really have enjoyed the downtime but do wish I gamed more these past 2 weeks.
With the amount of time off I really get antsy with gaming, my job makes gaming during the week impossible, as I work 2 weeks during the day and then 2 week during the afternoon (till 11:30 PM) so having a weekday game does not work. I need to game more.
What I did today?
- Listening to: Glass Cannon Podcast eps.137
- Reading: Pathfinder Chronicles into the darklands
- Watching: Game night (great movie, watch it) Annilation
- Playing: D&D 5e in Golarion world
- Eating:pizza
- Drinking: Ice Tea
- Discussion: Bought new couches yesterday
Bought a few books today.
last 4 books of Jade Regent
last 2 books of Winters Reign
last 3 books of Mummy's Mask
All 6 books of Wrath of the Righteous (this is a maybe)
last
book 5 of Ruins of Aslant (Flags you failed me)
book 1 of War for the crown (Flags you failed me)
Map Folios,
Mummy's Mask (Flags you failed me)
IronFang Invasion (Flags you failed me)
Adventure Path Pawn sets,
Stranger Aeons (Flags you failed me)
Ruins of Aslant (Flags you failed me)
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