Story HourPost your ongoing tales from your campaigns, and read those from others for inspiration. Lots of other RPG boards post "Story Hours", but this is where it started!
Type: Fantasy System: D&D 3.5 Setting: Eberron + Sigil
Started: May 25, 2007 Status: Ongoing Length: Medium to long Frequency: Weekly
Style: Third person, with references to the underlying game play
Overview: Thundina Seong, first seen in The New Adventures of Thundina Seong! is back for another adventure. She has broken her contacts with the Lightbringers to sign on for a scouting mission to deal with a problem of drow. The mission takes her party through a transplane portal to the great city of Sigil. Now standing between Thundina and home is the demon queen Lolth. And to acquire fortune, fame, and glory.
__________________ Ealli.
Eureka! I've discovered the cipher!
Ah nevermind, it's nothing.
Started: 9 Jun 2007 Status: Ongoing Average Installment Length: Short Average Frequency of Installments: 2x/month
Available for Download? No Style: 3rd person narrative prose
Overview: Fantasy adventure material, some piracy, some overland battles. The protagonists aren't the nicest do-gooders in the world, so quests that assume they care about people make for fun misadventures. May answer the question, what happens when the famous lighthouse in the Freeport trilogy is not defeated?
Type: Fantasy System: D&D Setting: Greyhawk (loosely based)
Started: 2001 sometime Status: Completed Average Installment Length: between 1,000 and 2,000 words, averaging three installments per session. The final session is over 17,454 words long. Average Frequency of Installments: - Available for Download? The story's available to buy as a novel and to download for free from here: http://www.lulu.com/content/586907 and http://www.lulu.com/content/588165 Style: 3rd person narrative prose, owing a great deal to Alan Moore, George R. R. Martin and Joss Whedon.
Overview: Vol 1: In Greyhawk, an age of peace is drawing to a close. Beasts, madmen, and demons conspire to enslave nations and end free will. The realm’s hopes lie in a the hands of a group of adventurers. The deeds they accomplish and the secrets they uncover will forever change their entire world... and not always for the best.
Vol 2: The Knights of the Silver Quill have saved the realm of Greyhawk. It's a time of peace and plenty until a fortune teller sends the Knights on a quest that ends very, very badly. Only with time and a new generation can the new Knights rise and pick up where the others left off, and just in time... a war among Titans on Oerth is brewing.
Reader Comment:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Celtavian
Awsome ending Doc. Truly one of the best story hours on this board, probably in the top 3 IMO, and it was my favorite. You really grew as a writer as you went on. What a great job of blending the absurdities of D&D into a tale with excellent character and story development.
Special: Threads I-III on the old ENboards are lost to the mists of time. To read those parts of the story see the download links, above.
Thread IV (on ENboards with reader commentary) can be read here.
Thread V (on ENboards with reader commentary) can be read here.
Thread VI (on ENboards with reader commentary) can be read here.
Thread VII (on ENboards with reader commentary) can be read here.
Thread VIII (on ENboards with reader commentary) can be read here.
Thread IX (on ENboards with reader commentary) can be read here.
__________________ For Justice!!
~Dr Midnight
Last edited by Dr Midnight; 15th July 2007 at 09:52 PM..
Type: Fantasy System: 2nd Edition D&D (main thread); secondary thread is not based on a game, but is based on the same characters. Setting: World of Kulan (homebrewed)
Started: 29 July 2002 Status: Ongoing Average Installment Length: Varies, most often short to medium. Average Frequency of Installments: Quarterly (or longer); use to be more often.
Available for Download? No Style: Narrative prose, based on campaign journal. Story is highly interpretive, and doesn't always conform to what actually occured in the game, as the campaign journal had limited details.
Overview: This thread details my 2e campaign in my homebrew campaign setting, World of Kulan. This story hour started out mainly from one character's point of view, but the story hour is beginning to evolve more into a full-blown narrative.
"Wizards, rangers, bards, and rogues. Elves, dwarves, halflings, and ogres. Wilderness adventures across the continent of Harqual and beyond. Friends and family in a fantasy world, trying to survive and deal with the machinations of Evil, both known & unknown. Revenge and the loss of loved ones."
Reader Comment:"I've only just begun to read this one, but I like it so far! I'll try to comment again once I'm more caught up in the story..." - the Jester
__________________ Robert Blezard I write; therefore, I am!
D&D v.3.5, d20 Modern, OSRIC, Pathfinder, True20... OGL Forever! Walk the Road
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Type: Sci-Fi (CyberPunk). System: CyberPunk 2020 with house rules Setting: CyberPunk 2020 / Heaven Over Mountain / Transhuman Space
Started: Jan 2007 Status: Ongoing Average Installment Length: Medium Average Frequency of Installments: Monthly (roughly)
Available for Download? No Style: Narrative from GM's perspective
Overview: Players in a classic CyberPunk 2020 setting watch it in fast forward as we advance the timeline almost one year per game session. Starting in the Fourth Corporate War we see the end of the war, the creation of new orbital megacorps and the end of others, the creation of the Space Elevator, and mankind's first diaspora into the solar system.
Reader Comment: None. No one likes it.
Special: The BlackHammer CyberPunk Project (my CyberPunk 2020 fansite) has many of the alternate rules we are using in this game. The CyberWiki is a full Wiki dedicated to this game, including character sheets, timeline, NPCs, and so on.
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The man they said would cause too much controversy for the ENnies - now running for judge!
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CyberPunk, Star Frontiers, HeroQuest, deadEarth and GunPorn
Type: Swashbuckling Political Games and Earth-Shattering Horror. And Accountants.
System: D&D 3.5e With Extra Crispy Wings
Setting: Barsoom
Started: July 2007
Status: In Progress: to complete mid-2008. Updates every Wednesday.
Overview: Our heroes, now mired in the ever-shifting weave of lies and deceit that make up Barsoomian history, try to find their way amongst a morass of insanity, desperation, and blood-curdling obsessions. There's love, death, and terror a-plenty. A sequel to the original Barsoom Tales Story Hour (although this one stands on its own; no advance knowledge required).
Reader Comment:
Quote:
Originally Posted by shilsen
If there ain't any stewardesses, there damn well better be some dinosaurs!
Started: 22 July 2007 Status: Ongoing Average Installment Length: Short Average Frequency of Installments: whenever homework permits me
Available for Download? No Style: 3rd person narrative prose.
Overview: An elf who's been raised by his parents first, then the dark elves, escape from the dark elven society. With a burning desire to avenge his parents death on the whole Dark elven race, and a burning desire to save his parents souls from the devils they were given to, the hunt begins.
Last edited by munchlord; 8th October 2007 at 05:18 PM..
Type: Fantasy System: D&D 3.5e/Whatever Setting: Eberron (Sarlonna, a long time ago)
Started: 19 July 2007 Status: Ongoing Average Installment Length: Slightly long Average Frequency of Installments:Weekly (normally Wednesdays)
Available for Download? Not at the moment Style: 3rd person narrative prose, with occasional winks to the underlying mechanics
Overview: The most unlikely adventuring party outside of a Shrek movie try and save the world during The War of the Burning Sky. Personally, my money is on Armageddon.
Reader Comment: "I am rather enjoying it" - RangerWickett
__________________ Embrace the chaos!
Pathfinder RPG (no hearts were broken in the making of this product)
Last edited by amethal; 13th November 2007 at 03:08 PM..
Type: Fantasy System: D&D 3.5e Setting: Forgotten Realms
Started: 24 August 2007
Status:Ongoing Average Installment Length: Verbose (7-12 pages usually) Average Frequency of Installments: Weekly
Style: Third person prose.
Overview: This is the log of my Psionics game, as re-written by the GM. The storyline also includes some RP story material written either by me or the other players.
__________________ O it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Title: Revanche
Author: Thorgrim Sekkrhrafn
Number of Threads: 1
Type: Fantasy
System: D&D 3.5e
Setting: World of Maas Campaign Setting-Tzo'lad'zyu Imperium (homebrew)
Started: 25 August 2007
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment Length: Medium-Verbose.
Average Frequency of Installments: Varies but at least bi-weekly.
Available for Download? No
Style: 3rd person narrative prose, written in a style that combines elements of high midieval european fantasy, pulp noir, the Eddas and the divya-katha Vedas in Hinduism
Overview: This is a story about revenge, corruption and resurrection. An ages-long feud between two empires threatens to erupt into full-blown warfare when the long-lost artefact-blade Bashashankhi--The Tongue of Madness--is alleged to've reappeared generations after its last malefic appearance. Formed from the shards of a mad demigod's soul and drenched in the blood of untold thousands, the weapon's very presence destabilises the empires, driving one to undertake a desperate, rear-guard action to prevent all-out, nigh-global war.
The Company of Ravens is hired by the shadowy Cham Savhatim to retrieve the Bashashankhi--or, preferrably, destroy it. What unfolds next is an epic struggle which begins as a "simple" snatch-and-grab operation and may yet end in the bodily resurrection of the infernal beast that once scoured nearly an entire continent clean of all life: Khoofhajirmine the Mad, scion of Khofek, god of death, bloodlust and genocidal warfare.
__________________ Hail, Mjolnir's Wielder! Hail, mankind's friend!
Stormlord, our staunch defender!
Bringer of blessings, brave and holy,
giver of good harvests,
hail we the Hammer-God!
Last edited by Thorgrim Sekkrhrafn; 25th August 2007 at 11:47 PM..
Reason: adding URL to thread
Type: Fantasy/Gothic Horror System: D&D 3.5e Setting: Ravenloft, set in the world of Imdria (homebrew)
Started: July 1st 2007 Status: Ongoing Average Installment Length: 1,200 words per update, 3 or 4 updates per game session Average Frequency of Installments: weekly (at worst) Available for Download? No Style: 3rd person fantasy with a strong flavor of that Ravenlofty goodness... gothic creepiness, mist, iron-wrought gates, all that. Minimal dungeons, more emphasis on overland adventure, roleplaying and political intrigue.
Overview: Two adventuring groups are called from overseas to the troubled realm of Barovia. The groups join by necessity as zombies, werewolves and worse beat down their door. All the while, the enigmatic and grandfatherly count Strahd Von Zarovich pulls the strings from his castle on the hill. He says he will grant an inheritance to Arianna of the Lightbringers, whom he claims is his descendant, if she will just complete a few menial tasks for him...
From the acclaimed and very handsome Dr Midnight, author of THE ADVENTURES OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE SILVER QUILL and THE ADVENTURES OF THE KNIGHTS OF SPELLFORGE KEEP.
Reader Comment:"This story is fantastic, and you bring it to life. There are few that I follow that keep my interest this is definitely one of them." -RichShea52, former lurker
Title: Whispers from After
Author: Anthelios
Number of Threads: # (NOTE: That's "Threads", not "Posts"!)
Type: Fantasy
System: D&D 3.5e (But Fiction)
Setting: Homebrew
Started: 14 September 2007
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment Length: Short chapter
Average Frequency of Installments: Weekly
Available for Download? No
Style: 3rd person narrative prose
Overview: A journey of self discovery by a half-elf with an unusual past. Who's "half" might be more than even he knows. Based on a short story I wrote a very long time ago.
Reader Comment: None so far.
Special: Nothing yet.
__________________ Adventures in Out of Character:
DM finishes describing an island paradise crafted by the gods for original man. Player A out of character "This place is like the Garden of Eden.. Any apple trees?"
Player B "I saw a show that said that it was most likely Pomeranians not apples back then"
DM laughing "Pomeranians? You meant pomegranate right? Eve convincing Adam to feast on a little dog would of been awesome!"
Type: Fantasy
System: D&D 3.5
Setting: Galeman's Homebrew
Started: Late 2003
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment Length: Long (5000+ words)
Average Frequency: Twice a month (hopefully)
Available for Download: No
Style: Lacking
Overview: Join Khalid the cowardly conjurer as he bumbles from one catastrophe to another! Watch, as he and his companions flee from danger at every opportunity! You'll laugh in derision at the party's poor tactics! You'll cry with frustration as they ignore the obvious hints of their inevitable doom! Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back! Note: Any money sent to author will not be refunded.
Reader Comment: This is one of the best story hours I've read on this site. The setting is fun and different, the players and characters seem quirky and fun and the writing is quite excellent. Well done.
Type: Fantasy System: D&D 3.5e Setting: Paylen (Homebrew)
Started: 1997 as an AD&D campaign Status: Ongoing Average Installment Length: Long (-winded) Average Frequency of Installments: Biweekly at best, monthly at worst
Available for Download? Not at the moment Style: 3rd person
Overview: Dark elf babes, furry vikings, undead snakes on a plane -- I mean -- ship, homicidal women with mercury for blood, an inept band of mercenaries, all set in a city overrun by dragon-riding Roman-wannabes and written with more pretentious prose than you can shake a stick at. Worst story hour EVAR!
Reader Comment: *crickets*
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My Story Hour - Song of Shattered Blades
Title:Cold Blood Author: Yesminde Number of Threads: 1
Type: Fantasy System: D&D 3.5 Setting: Planescape
Started: October 2007 Status: Ongoing Average Installment Length: Verbose (8+ pages) Average Frequency of Installments: Weekly
Available for Download: No Style: Third person prose Overview: This is a game writeup of a game focusing on the Blood War. I'm playing both Sheen and Haden and doing the writeups because I have more free time than our DM does.
__________________ O it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Title: Midnight Hours
Author: Queen of Spades
Number of Threads: 1
Type: Dark Fantasy
System: D&D 3.5e with OGL content and a few homebrewed twists
Setting: Midnight
Started: Campaing: March/2007
Started: Story hour: November/2007
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment Length: Still not sure. check back later
Average Frequency of Installments: Once a week
Available for Download? No
Style: 3rd person narrative prose
Overview: A Group of rebels try to destroy the evil that scourges their land and give another chance for the good guys once more.
__________________ Love is an Epic-Level Challenge
Type: Fantasy/Humour.
System: D&D & Homebrew
Setting: The table in the conservatory.
Started: April 2007
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment Length: 1000-1500 words.
Average Frequency of Installments: Weekly
Available for Download? No
Style: 3rd person narrative prose, with the odd intrusive DM
Overview: The scene is set, four newbies to the game of Dungeons & Dragons, children of friends, they are from left to right; Jake (10 years old), James (also 10), Alec (12) and Pat (9)- you know there’s going to be trouble.
And thus it begins the first session of D&D in their lives, yes they’d seen stuff on the TV, yes they’d played some sappy on-line game where they had to collect crystals and what-have-you, yes they’d heard about D&D and that it was for geeks… curse them, what do they know, I’ll show them, I’ll make mincemeat out of them, I’ll… oh hang on, getting carried away… to the Sunless Citadel with them.
Reader Comment:
This is some of the funniest D&D stuff I've ever read!!!
Please keep it coming, I'm rolling on the floor every few sentences. ;-)
Type: Fantasy with a little Humour & Intrigue.
System: D&D & Homebrew
Setting: Homebrew- Maps in post.
Started: July 2006
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment Length: 1000-1500 words.
Average Frequency of Installments: Approx 2/Week
Available for Download? No
Style: 3rd person narrative prose.
Overview: Playing Goodman Games Modules only this is my main game, the players here are much more mature, at least in years and experience. Therefore the language and topics in places may, or may not, get a little fruity. I have, however, at all times, done my best to make sure it is suitable for almost every ear.
So far the Goodman Gang have fought their way through-
Dungeon Crawl Classics #0 Legends are Made, not Born.
Dungeon Crawl Classics #2 The Lost Vault of Tsathzar Rho.
Dungeon Crawl Classics #11 The Dragonfiend Pact
Dungeon Crawl Classics #14 Dungeon Interludes Chapter 1: The Eye of the Night
Dungeon Crawl Classics #29 Scenario 2 Old Feodol’s Basement
Dungeon Crawl Classics #24 Legend of the Ripper*
Dungeon Crawl Classics #3 The Mysterious Tower
Dungeon Crawl Classics #29 Scenario 4 The Golden Auroch
Dungeon Crawl Classics #14 Dungeon Interludes Part 2: The Defiled Sanctuary
Dungeon Crawl Classics #29 Scenario 1 Tower of the Black Pearl
Dungeon Crawl Classics #28 Into the Wilds
Dungeon Crawl Classics #17 Legacy of the Dragon Kings
Dungeon Crawl Classics #26 The Scaly God
*Although the story posted so far is only up to here.
Reader Comment:
Nicely done, enjoying the feel of it. The character development post was appreciated, looks like you have a flare for writing, and not just one style.
Thanks for taking the time to share it all with us.
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