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11th session: Only three players were able to make it, so Veldyn was controlled by me. Day 59 Senni Diggermattock came to the Foaming Mug during breakfast. She thanked the party for helping Blingdenstone and killing the medusa. As a compensation she gave the party a lot of money and offered to...

Player character description (short): Shrimp (new character): male thri-kreen, monk (drunken master) , 25 years old, background: far traveller, favourite weapons: hands and staff of a broken gythka (= quarterstaff), personality: reliable, speaks common very slowly, makes sound with his...

10th session: Only three players were able to make it, so during battle Vanya was controlled by me. Day 58 The party continued to explore the vacated north-eastern caves. The saw Ogremoch's Bane and 30 drow warrior statues. As they approached the violet nebula six statues started to attack...

10th session: The party arrived last session in Blingdenstone. A big cave system lies in front of them. They explored many different parts of Blingdenstone - not every cave and social encounter will be mentioned here. The goblins "Ayns" and "Zwaih" left the party to go drink, refresh and trade...

9th session: A friend of ours joined for this session as one of the goblins from "The Silken Pathways". Day 47-52 Schnetherti left the party, leaving behind a note explaining she doesn't do well in groups. The PCs encounter a huge chasm with silken spider webs stretching from on side to the...

Player character description (short): Filgeal (new character): male dwarf, cleric (light), 30 years old, background: sailor, favourite weapons: warhamme, personality: reliable, mostly introverted, rightful, afraid of loss Stats (rolled): STR 16, DEX 8, CON 16, INT 13, WIS 20, CHA 10 Filgeal...

8th session: A friend of ours joined for this session as the deep gnome rogue "Schnetherti". Day 37-40 The party prepared for leaving the shore. As they started to push the rowboats into the water, sounds from the tunnel emerged. No one wanted to fight demons or an illithid again, so everybody...

7th session: Only three players were able to make it, so during battle Veldyn was controlled by me. Day 31 The session started with Vanya trying to heal Prince Derendil in every way possible: lay on hands, healing potion, potion of resistance, asking Eldeth and Basidia for help, cutting out...

Exploding crits: The additional die from a crit is automatically the highest number on the die (works for players and monsters)

6th session: Still day 29 The PCs decided to investigate Thar'den. While they did their medicine checks and talked about what to do next Thar'den regained control over his body again. They realized that the ground beneath them contained various dead bodies. They continued and encountered...

5th session: For this session a friend of us took control over Sarith. Still day 19 We started where we left: With an initiative roll. 100 giant fire beetles were swarming from the ceiling onto the cave floor (10-20 per turn on the battlemap). The party was split up, half was fighting, and...

Hi, I'm currently DMing "Out of the Abyss" for 4 players. They just escaped Velkynvelve and are now travelling through the underdark. Now I bought a small puzzle on amazon which I want to give to my players during the next sessions, probably after a non-hostile random encounter. Inside I could...

Attached are the NPC character sheets that I give to the players for combat (1 NPC per person). Feedback is very welcome! (number in brackets is the level of the NPC)

4th session: As most of us are busy in real life at the moment I also decided to skip big parts of the “travelling” – otherwise the campaign will last until 2023 (in real life) without reaching the surface. Day 9-16 (skipped) Downtime activities: Thar’den learned more words in undercommon...

3rd session: Very short session, as all of us were busy in real life: Day 7 Nothing happened during the day In the evening Ront pushed Stool and complained about the myconid not helping the party. Eeria was close to fighting Ront when the group decided to make an arm wrestling tournament to...

2nd session: Day 3 In the morning two guards came, looked grim at the prisoners and dragged Jimjar outside. They threw him over the edge into the spider webs. The PCs only heard a single scream and monstrous noises. Then there was silence again. Afterwards more prison labour awaited: Veldyn...

1st session: The characters wake up without any equipment, just wearing their common clothes in a dim lit prison cell. Eeria immediately realises, that Ebert is missing. Everybody just levelled up to level 3, but has -5HP due to the poisoning and treatment of the drow. Veldyn finds out that...

Player character description (short): Eearia: female half-orc, barbarian, 13 years old, background: soldier, savage attacker (variant start feat), path of totem warrior (boar), tusks grew bigger than before, has a giant boar piglet (Ebert), favourite weapon: great axe, personality: impulsive...

Hello everyone, I am currently running the Out of the Abyss (OotA) campaign with 4 players. We meet roughly every 14 days. The players are also relatively new to 5e, some of them played earlier versions of DnD a few years ago. I will keep my campaign notes here and share homemade material for...