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Harpers Session 4 Having been sucked through a portal to the Abyss, our heroes are unceremoniously deposited in a desolate wasteland of grey ash. Intermittent geysers of molten rock erupt from dark cracks in the barren ground. A half dozen bandits were also pulled through the portal, dazed and...

Harpers Session 3 Our heroes head east through the Grey Hills. Nobody fancies walking, so we yoke a bear to our newly acquired wagon and dangle a slab of honeycomb in front of him to get moving. Some time later we hear hoofbeats to our rear. We hide in the bushes to see who is travelling these...

Harpers Session 2 Having extracted deep cover agent Elrond Bruhar from Zhent territory, our heroes return to the Harper safehouse for debriefing. The Handler is not impressed with the amount of collateral damage caused, nor the abundance of witnesses who can finger us for the strike. Karnock...

Curious this was announced so soon after my WOLFENSTRAHD campaign; WOLFENSTRAHD (SWADE) I am gonna' assume someone from Mophidius saw that thread and was inspired. :D :D :D We are starting the next arc in two months, they will be fighting Mecha-Hitler. :D

Harpers Session 1 A new group of (lvl8) heroes are summoned to the city of Waterdeep to form an elite (lol) taskforce. Lia Silverstar is a bubbly young half-elf sorlock, venturing out from the Temple of Sune for the first time in her life (how exactly she reached the lofty heights of level 8...

I have this exact deck, great for initiative in Savage Worlds. :D

We are taking a break from OotA until mid/late 2026, at which point this story thread will resume. For the next 9 weeks, Elin's player will be running us through a homebrew D&D campaign with new (lvl 8) characters. I will post these session write-ups here, rather than start a new thread.

Out of the Abyss, Session 5 Risen from the depths of the Dark Lake, Demogorgan rampages through the streets of Sloopadoop, twin heads roaring in primordial fury. Whilst fleeing across rooftops, Greyscale is sent flying by one of the demon lord's flailing tentacles. The terrified kobold...

Out of the Abyss, Session 4 Realizing we are stuck on an island in the middle of the Dark Lake, Morloc whittles an oar from the hardy zurkwood so plentiful on this squalid rock, and we set out across the water once more. The voyage is long, and the raft is crowded with NPCs of dubious value to...

Out of the Abyss, Session 3 Our heroes continue their exploration of the abandoned mine. We discover a sinkhole plunging down to a lower level of the dungeon. Greyscale spots a wand discarded near the edge of the pit, but fails to notice the phase spider lurking in ambush. Kiri casts Mind...

Out of the Abyss, Session #2 We rejoin our heroes during their flight from the prison camp Velkynvelve. We don't know where we're going, only that we need to put as much distance between ourselves and the drow before they come after us. Stool telepathically communicates there is an exit to the...

Out of the Abyss, Session #1 GM (Alex) Elin Warmhand, Dwarf/Cleric 1 (Bane) Erasmus, Gnome/Wizard 1 (Tom) Greyscale, Kobold/Rogue 1 (Mike) Kiri Smoothpaw, Elf/Sorcerer 1 (Tony) Morloc, Human/Fighter 1 (Doug) Our heroes awaken in the dark. Not just any old dark. The Underdark. We have no idea...

Thank-you for the kind words. I forget the exact formula, but it was two parts Wolfenstein to one part Curse of Strahd and one part Resident Evil 4. I used the core SWADE book, and both the Fantasy & Horror Companions.

Thanks for reading! The campaign was a lot of fun to run, and reminded me why I love Savage Worlds. 😍 I enjoyed it so much, I immediately wrote a plot point for the sequel (which I should be running April 2026), and a spin-off set in Northern Africa with a different group of players (to start...