Recent content by Oginme

Very sorry to hear of your father. I get inspiration from other's stories and how they have added, removed, and deviated from the main story line. If the story grows and changes from the written material, then it serves as and example of what can be done. While the campaign has one basic...

I had them both talking to the characters, even during combat. Indomitabilty was bragging about never being defeated and how he and his siblings were going to take over the world and mold it to their liking. Deception, once discovered, also made claims about his brother, Indomitabilty, and...

Regarding the changes for the Monastery of the Two Winds: I painted Longinus and Pilus as nearly opposite in nature. Longinus was seeking understanding and peace with his upbringing and destruction of his home village. Pilus was obsessed with revenge, plotting not only to take it out on...

As I ran it, the players get to work it out through the series up to where they need to deal with Trilla in her dream world. Every encounter with one of the Trilla gave them a bit more insight into their nature and origins, with many of them referring to each other as 'siblings born of mother's...

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Professor_Ulysses, Are you using a VTT to play? If so, I have remade a number of the maps which you are free to download and use. Let me know if you are interested.

I would recommend reading ahead the next couple of modules. There are a number of opportunities for NPCs to travel with the party. In TSoGP (#1) you have Torrent, Haddin, and Crystin. Torrent is their charge, to escort to Seaquen. Haddin and Crystin are completely at the DMs discretion to...

In my campaigns, Torrent is basically a non-combatant. She will step up if the party requests or if their situation is dire. She will step in if someone is badly injured to heal them or when asked. Once the party picks up others to travel with the party, she will protect them. Most of the...

With the power creep in 5e over the years and the subclasses that give away temp hp all the time, I set the NPC hp to max and let it ride. Has made for some nail biting on the player side, but much more enjoyable for all and more of an accomplishment when the players succeed.

I have used Crystin quite a bit in each of the WotBS campaigns I am running. The last has just entered the Innenotdar Forest, and two of the party pushed to bring her along as she is a seer and could help them during their travels. Beyond that, I have continued to have Crystin provide visions...

Two campaigns. I had come up with Duncan on the spot for the first campaign and then the second, I had forgotten and came up with Remfir. Chalk it up to bad memory and not moving the information over from one to the next.

I had the proxies give some flavor and a few little nuggets of information to reward the players for seeking out other sources. Idella was supportive of aligning with Seaquen, but knew that Lady Timor would follow what the King commanded... Unless there was information to be had which...

In my campaigns I have just added them as needed. If the party wanted to see a lord or lady when they first visited Bresk, I added them. Several were also added based upon character back stories. Since they came from one of the Dasseni lands and would have been of sufficient rank to know...

I have a group (not the one I write about here) who have just retrieved the torch and are having serious discussions and moral crises about using the torch. They are now in the Temple of Echoed Souls looking to repair it, but are also wary of the cost of using the Torch. Great stuff!

These people have been playing together for 4 years now. They get along well and know how each is going to react to things which happen in the game. My second group is more chaotic. No one wants to assume a leadership position, so actions come at the end of a long discussion with many halts...