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Running a Level Up campaign at the moment, so definitely.

In God: An Anatomy, Dr Stavrakopoulou writes about how horns feature in depictions of ancient west Asian/middle eastern art often included horns, including that Moses went horned after his encounters with god. This is because horns were a symbol of power, both linked to the virility of the bull...

Just wanted to pop in and give another cheer for your story hour Goonalan. I really do love your style. Have you been having the PCs advance at different rates? How are you finding that?

Hello all, What follows is a short story write-up of a one-off adventure DM'd by my younger brother for my birthday, inspired by the PC game Planescape: Torment. In this game, I took the role of the Nameless (a Revenant Fighter), my partner plays Kat (a human Cleric) and our friend Hope...

Good stuff Goonalan. A genuine pleasure to read.

Make a Charisma swordy paladin (Str 13/Con 11/Dex 14/Int 10/Wis 12/Cha 16). Let him pick up a heavy shield by improvising a dinner plate or something. 14 AC. Still get hit a lot, but not so much as otherwise. Give them some useful skills for the wordy parts. Diplomacy, Insight are on the Pala...

I think I'll just have to agree to disagree with you on that last point Goonalan. It's an argument that is spinning around the internet that, at this point, seems unresolvable due to the intensely subjective (and, at heart, theoretical) nature of the statement. In short, I'll get my coat.

Goonalan, I think you said you can only use healing surges 1/encounter. Have I understood you correctly, that this is what you mean? If so, then as I have interpreted the rules, you are in incorrect. You can use a Second Wind 1/encounter. The Cleric's Healing Word, the Paladin's Lay on Hands...

Any chance of some information on Orcs please?

My group just completed it. Some things what I did: Generic atmosphere changes i.e. add some NPCs (the Autarch, Allejandro of the Ruby Knights); change the aspects of some of the gods (Eastern v. Western Wee Jas, Templar v. Orthodox Pelor); switch some monsters (Lizardfolk changed to Gnolls)...

So that's it, the Red Hand of Doom finished. Only took half a year, and two and a half parties worth of characters. It's been a lot of fun, though some things were a pain - particular as half of the game involved only a half party! The high point, I think, was probably the raid of the...

Epilogue: Snowflakes and Spiderswebs In the months that followed, changes would come. Lord Jarmaath, a noble lord, took it upon himself to reward each hero individually. Andel he guided into the depths of the Jasite shrine, wherein were kept many relics. In a stone coffin that predated the...

Session 15: Against Tiamat Sol, Xerxes over his shoulder, struggled up out through the roof of the ruined Fane, Andel and Ben just behind him. The miasmic body of the Dragon Queen was fading into the distance, but she left a trail easy to follow. The sky churned at her passing, bloody stained...

It was four days hard travel through the mountains to reach the Fane. The hard slog left them ill-prepared for what they faced. The mountain in which the Fane rested, nestled deep within the range, had been carved into a likeness of the Chromatic Queen. Wolsey’s pet was sent ahead, the skeletal...

They pressed on. The Witchwood was eerily silent. It was likely it had seemed been scoured clear by goblin hunters. The signs of the Hand’s passage through the area was clear, scarred trees, fire damage. Vraath Keep, which Andel assured them was haunted, they avoided, spending the night in a...

It was cold. So cold. His teeth chattered, flesh shivered against the bite of it. But every move sent a stab of agony across his many wounds. He could barely stand from the pain, the blood loss. He tried to focus on something else. Rumbling clouds laughed at him high above. No comfort there...

Session 14: The Fane of Tiamat Only two volunteered to join Sol and Xerxes. The first was Andel Mor, one of the two surviving Blades of Prosser. A native of the Vale, he wielded a strange silver sword, and stranger still powers. Local gossips had whispered for many years of his fey air, that...

Xerxes, one of the characters in my ongoing Red Hand of Doom game, is a Binder, presently at tenth level. He's focused on being very good at Binding, and a few little bits here and there. The player's intention was to excel in a "jack-of-all-trades" angle. In play, I've found the Binder to be...

Another word from behind the curtain The Battle of Brindol was resolved in two six hour sessions, played on consecutive days. It was mostly monster bashing, with chances to show off two things. Firsty, how strong the characters and how versatile the players of Sol and Xerxes are. Secondly, to...

The speech given by Lord Jarmaath of Brindol on 23 High Summer RF 503. Hail to thee, The armies of the Red Hand are defeated, broken at the siege of Brindol. The surviving Wyrmlords have fallen to squabbling, the mass of the Horde dispersed across the Vale. This army will trouble the good...