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The Wind Riders: Tales from the Infinite Staircase (Updated September 13)
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<blockquote data-quote="RedShirtNo5" data-source="post: 4390189" data-attributes="member: 173"><p>DM notes</p><p> </p><p>Nearly a year ago my group completed an adventure based on Tales from the Infinite Staircase by Monte Cook. I am finally getting around to posting a story hour recounting that adventure.</p><p> </p><p>This probably would be considered an unusual campaign, because in real life this single adventure took place over about ten or twelve sessions spread over <em>seven years</em>. Why did the campaign take seven years? Basically, about once per year a group of ten high school and college friends, including some who have to fly in, all try to get together to socialize and game. Most of us have DMed at one time or another, but I volunteered (I think) as DM for the first of these annual gatherings. Anyway, the first session of this adventure occurred in the summer of 2001. Since I was reading some story hours at the time, and I knew that it would probably be a full year before the group got together again, and because nobody would remember what happened a year ago, I figured a story summary would be a good ideal. At first I wrote the summaries myself. But later after I realized how much work it was, I got some of the players to volunteer to do the basic write up, which I would edit.</p><p> </p><p>The Wind Riders is the name of the PC's adventuring group, due to the catch phrase "We ride like the wind!" from an early game with these PCs. I had DMed other Wind Riders adventures back in 2nd edition. After the release of 3e, I thought about ways to convert. I liked Tales from the Infinite Staircase, and wanted to try running a very open-ended non-linear adventure. Also a transition to a planar adventure looked like a good way to explain any discrepencies from the conversion to 3e. So the first session actually started in 2e, but switched to 3e fairly quickly. And due to the length of the campaign, we eventually converted to 3.5 as well.</p><p> </p><p>The PCs were probably 5th level single class or 4th/4th multiclass in second edition at the time this adventure starts, so I think everyone was coverted over to third edition at 5th level. </p><p> </p><p>The members of the Wind Riders are (in 3e terms):</p><p> </p><p>Geldar the Azure Mage, human wizard</p><p>Jaaron Hillstrider, dwarven fighter/scout</p><p>Ka'hari Al Gizaldi, half-elf wizard/rogue (later wilder/rogue)</p><p>Kindred Moonsong, elf fighter/sorcerer/arcane archer</p><p>Sir Reynard Hardicarnute Quinctius, human paladin</p><p>Needles Nimblefingers, halfing thief, er, rogue</p><p>Rodney, human monk</p><p>Bei Butterfield, human monk</p><p>Thantar, dwarven cleric (later retired)</p><p>Max, half-orc heavily multiclassed (replacement character for Thantar's player)</p><p> </p><p>My plan is to intersperse some DM notes with the story, commenting on changes to the module and the like.</p><p> </p><p>-RedShirt</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RedShirtNo5, post: 4390189, member: 173"] DM notes Nearly a year ago my group completed an adventure based on Tales from the Infinite Staircase by Monte Cook. I am finally getting around to posting a story hour recounting that adventure. This probably would be considered an unusual campaign, because in real life this single adventure took place over about ten or twelve sessions spread over [I]seven years[/I]. Why did the campaign take seven years? Basically, about once per year a group of ten high school and college friends, including some who have to fly in, all try to get together to socialize and game. Most of us have DMed at one time or another, but I volunteered (I think) as DM for the first of these annual gatherings. Anyway, the first session of this adventure occurred in the summer of 2001. Since I was reading some story hours at the time, and I knew that it would probably be a full year before the group got together again, and because nobody would remember what happened a year ago, I figured a story summary would be a good ideal. At first I wrote the summaries myself. But later after I realized how much work it was, I got some of the players to volunteer to do the basic write up, which I would edit. The Wind Riders is the name of the PC's adventuring group, due to the catch phrase "We ride like the wind!" from an early game with these PCs. I had DMed other Wind Riders adventures back in 2nd edition. After the release of 3e, I thought about ways to convert. I liked Tales from the Infinite Staircase, and wanted to try running a very open-ended non-linear adventure. Also a transition to a planar adventure looked like a good way to explain any discrepencies from the conversion to 3e. So the first session actually started in 2e, but switched to 3e fairly quickly. And due to the length of the campaign, we eventually converted to 3.5 as well. The PCs were probably 5th level single class or 4th/4th multiclass in second edition at the time this adventure starts, so I think everyone was coverted over to third edition at 5th level. The members of the Wind Riders are (in 3e terms): Geldar the Azure Mage, human wizard Jaaron Hillstrider, dwarven fighter/scout Ka'hari Al Gizaldi, half-elf wizard/rogue (later wilder/rogue) Kindred Moonsong, elf fighter/sorcerer/arcane archer Sir Reynard Hardicarnute Quinctius, human paladin Needles Nimblefingers, halfing thief, er, rogue Rodney, human monk Bei Butterfield, human monk Thantar, dwarven cleric (later retired) Max, half-orc heavily multiclassed (replacement character for Thantar's player) My plan is to intersperse some DM notes with the story, commenting on changes to the module and the like. -RedShirt [/QUOTE]
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