Recent content by Richards

In tonight's "Middle of Elsewhere" campaign session, the PCs: Interrogated the fiendish humans from the outpost we helped rescue from Abyssal orcs (and a one-armed babau) last session, and found out the fireball protection stems from a shrine nearly 600 miles away Got them to draw us a map on...

Protected shrine from demonic forces. Johnathan

A couple more I just thought of: Jeffery Deaver's "Lincoln Rhyme" series, about a crippled forensic criminologist; and Jonathan Maberry's "Joe Ledger" series, about a Delta-Force sort of organization that deals with the "X-Files" kinds of issues: zombie outbreaks, alien technology...

I like Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's "Agent Pendergast" novels: 21 so far and apparently one more to go. I'm also a big fan of Scott Lynch's "Gentlemen Bastards" series (Locke Lamora), and while there's only three out in that series thus far, he's got plans for at least seven novels...

Ooh, a Barsoom reference! Kaor, Mannahnin! Johnathan

With my luck, I'd take the $10,000,000 and all of the money would be post-dated to a date far enough in the future I couldn't use it for quite some time without it appearing to be an obvious counterfeit. But I still don't want to go back to being six years old again, so I guess I'd risk having...

In today's "Down to Erthe" campaign session, the PCs: Were introduced to their mongrelfolk adept's new familiar, a feral junkyard rat named Scruffy Overheard the owner of the boardinghouse where they stay rent free (after having saved her son in the campaign's first adventure) complaining that...

Into the sewers, fighting meenlocks. Johnathan

ADVENTURE 6: QUEST FOR FIRE REPELLENT PC Roster: Amris Goodwitch, celestial elf witch (wizard) 3 Avoroth Bleakborn, fiendish human cleric 3 Gonkle Bu'Onk, fiendish orc fighter 3 Wilbur Von Schattenwalde, shadow human druid 3 Game...

I just finished Rage - I only had about 20 pages left to go - and it had a truly gut-punch of an ending. So I'm jumping immediately into the next book, Relentless by Jonathan Maberry, and this time it's Joe Ledger and the Rogue Team International up against some cybernetically-enhanced...

In tonight's "Middle of Elsewhere" campaign session, the PCs: Were briefed by the town elders that Elsewhere was on Avernus, the first level of Hell; that one of the traits of Avernus is that fireballs randomly drop down from the sky (although that hasn't happened to Elsewhere for the week or...

One-armed babau still kicked butt. Johnathan

And a post-DS9 Nana Visitor as a Manticore bigwig from "Dark Angel." Johnathan

INTERLUDE: TEMPLE INVESTIGATIONS Avoroth pocketed his newly-purchased wand of cure light wounds, paid for with a good portion of his share of the black onyxes they'd unearthed from the lich's secret lair. (Wilbur had offered up just short of 200 pieces of gold towards the purchase, recognizing...

ADVENTURE 5: AN ORDINARY DAY IN ELSEWHERE PC Roster: Amris Goodwitch, celestial elf witch (wizard) 2 Avoroth Bleakborn, fiendish human cleric 2 Gonkle Bu'Onk, fiendish orc fighter 2 Wilbur Von Schattenwalde, shadow human druid 2 Game...