Tyranny of Dragons – Vengeance and Death
With apologies for the cell phone pic. When last we left our band of plucky heroes, they had captured the leader of the attack on Greenest, the mad cleric Frulam Mondath. A quick scan of his office revealed a significant intelligence coup; the group had discovered marching order to...
Tyranny of Dragons Actual Plays
As I’ve mentioned before, one advantage to playing a pre-packaged rpg campaign is the opportunity it opens up to swap war stories with fellow players who have been through the same meat-grinder. Also mentioned repeatedly has been my group’s adventures, mis- and otherwise, along the Tyranny of Dragons campaign....
Campaign Creation – Inspirational Shortcuts and Political Mnemonics
Chris, over at the Hill Cantons has a great post up about Special Snowflakes. Really inspirational stuff. Those of you who run games should take the three minutes to read it, if you haven’t already. he’s quite the muse, that one. Make sure to stick around for the comments...
New Year’s Party
Day late and a gold coin short, here’s a shot of the full lineup of the party standing between Faerun and a so-far vaguely draconic but unspecified threat. Karran, Gilgamesh, Aramis, Henry, and Grim On the one hand, if the fate of the Realms lies in the hands of...
Tyranny of Dragons Party – Yours Truly
The most colorful member of the party, in more ways than one, must be my character, a dwarven tank named Henry St. John. He actually dual wields two light hammers, but the figure came with a hammer and axe. The axe went to yesterday’s dragon-born paladin, and the dragon-born’s...
Fighting Fire With Fire
Sometimes it takes a dragon to beat a dragon. The toughest character in our party running the Tyranny of Dragons gauntlet is the dragonborn warrior, Karran. This paladin is a white-dragon blooded tank of a hero. Unlike the three previous characters in the party, the guy playing this character...
Sic Semper Tyrannis Draconis
Aramis, cleric of Helm, tank-slash-healbot extraordinaire, and all around good guy. He has been instrumental in cracking the tyranny of dragons campaign. Fifth edition clerics seem like a hard class to play. They have so many options at every level of the game, there’s a lot to track...
Tyranny of Dragons – Zero Dark Thirty, FR Style
We got bin Laden Frulahm Mondath! I think that’s his name. He’s one of the high ranking priests of the Cult of the Dragon that’s been causing such trouble in northern Faerun of late. Let me back up to the middle… When last we left our plucky band of heroes...
Grim, The Party Continues
Grim, a serious archer style rogue with a strong mercenary streak is second in the lineup of the heroes blundering their way through WotC’s Tyranny of Dragons campaign. No idea if I got the colors right on this guy – his player missed the session where I asked for...
Mele Kalikimaka Loot!
Here’s hoping your celebration of the birth of our savior was a smashing success. (As I type this, Hawaii is still in the midst of the throes of the birthday celebration.) This year the lovely and long suffering wife fed my addiction with a copy of Neil Thomas’ latest...