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Ironcially, he was trying to *open* the gate, so that he could get at Barnabus. He'd rolled the "attack the caster (or close if attack not possible)" option on the confusion spell. The caster would be Barnabus, and the only way to close with him was to get through the gate, so... Yeah, y'all...

Erm. Well, both actually. In truth, I had an overall arc in mind for the game from the get-go. Ultimately, that arc boiled down into three Acts, of which the search for the Archmagi was the first. In reality, it took me about four years to finish that, at which point I was so burned out on...

Hah! <b>She</b> doesn't know, but I do. I write up my notes by session. By my count, the adventure currently being posted was Session 52. I may be off by one or two, as there were a couple of sessions I ran from modules and thus didn't type up notes. For the record, we played Session 71...

I'm curious to know what makes you think any of those things are going to happen in the next "few" pages... :p

Patience, patience. It's only the gladiators who are also brothel slaves that get their fun in the brothel slave way. The celebrity athlete gladiators get their fun in the celebrity athlete way. *looks at what he just wrote* My god, I've become *that* GM...

Yep. And remember, of course, that as in our world, "pleasure palaces" are always the early adopters that really help new technologies take off...

Which, for anyone keeping score and reading Dungeon (or one of the Age of Worms Story Hours) carefully, should be enough to tell you that we're currently playing through a slightly modified version of "The Champion's Belt", from Dungeon 128. Giving credit where it's due.

Let me state first off that I really hate stupid character death. I don't mind killing PCs, but I feel like there should be appropriate drama or intentionality involved. Character deaths that come as a result of sheer dumb bad luck, bad die rolls, or a grotesque and unavoidable lack of the...

I'm certain, really quite positively certain, that there is a perfectly good reason why the Romans thought mandatory torture prior to testifying was a good idea. I'm curious if you'd like to share it with the class?

Shara has a very simple, very clear philosophy. She discovered the truth of this philosophy at an early age, as her teachers and tutors drilled into her all the lady-like skills she would need to be what her grandfather always intended her to be: a very pretty thing he could marry off to some...

Actually, he joined the same time that I did, about a year after wisdomlikesilence joined. He and I came over the same night to talk about character generation, about a week after GenCon that year...

I am fascinated by this conversation, as I also hate calculating XP. I've pretty much defaulted to a system wherein the PCs level whenever I want them to (about twice a year), allowing me to coordinate leveling with convenient story goals. Up until recently, we didn't really have anyone...

Heh, I thought. Silly Beldar. Of course there's such a link. I'll just reference him to it. It's in the very first post of the Story Hour... ...but it wasn't there in December. >sigh< I'm sure Spyscribe will correct that soon enough, but in the meantime, you can find the collected PDFs...

What!? When was Bob Hope on Firefly? Oh, wait... ;)

It's funny now. Spyscribe *really* wasn't in the mood to hear jokes about it when it happened. Just so all are aware, Spyscribe's computer is back, safe and sound and fully functional. She has been dragged under by the riptide of the real world of late (stupid real world), hence the lack of...

Er, more the former, I'm afraid. Bad Monkey Jeff, God bless him, looked me right in the face and demanded that I tell him everything I knew about unknown islands, with such conviction that I truly believe he thought it might work.

Well, do keep in mind the following: 1) The Halmae is a low magic world. Regenerate is a 7th level Cleric spell and a 9th level Druid spell, so it's not that easy to grow them back. Even a wealthy merchant like Jamaladeen had to pay an awful lot for it. Plus, considering that most elven...

Wow. I'm not sure any story we've done yet here has generated this much conversation, which is a real thrill to me, let me say. I'm so glad to see this scenario appreciated; lord knows the PCs didn't much appreciate it at the time. ;) This adventure was, for anyone interested, *very*...

>sigh< Well, at least now I know it's not just my PCs... ;)

I'll admit, I knew there was a lot of moral ambiguity here, but I still didn't expect the players to want to bail as much as they did. I mean, yes, moral ambiguity, but also villagers! Lots of innocent villagers, about to get caught in the crossfire! Don't want to help the elves? Fine. Don't...