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A halfling or goblin hamstrings a character, cries "Oops, wrong one!" and disappears into the crowd. Woman from a desert tribe has a full-body tattoo that is actually a stylized map revealing the entrance to the underground city. A gypsy's monkey is picking pockets and shoplifting. No one can...

Wing utters a relieved chuckle as he holsters his grenade launcher. He plods off his post and joins the rest of the group. "If this is all the demons can throw at us," he says, "we could be kings here." Quickly, he kisses his fingers and touches the floor, as to not tempt fate.

I'm living on a remote farm, but I will try to post every time I come into town to resupply. :) This seems like a solid end to "chapter one". Let me know if you have any questions about leveling up.

The flares and smoke from the singed plants make it difficult to tell for sure, about eight of the six-limbed pig men are scaling the walls, rescuing every plant they can grab in their extra set of limbs and their prehensile tails. None heed Ivy's advice to abandon their produce. Furug, your...

Sorry, everyone. My life is taking some unusual turns. I will be posting very irregularly for the next two months or so. This game is fun though so I hope I can pick it up again sometime.

Life is happening and it looks like I won't have a regular posting schedule anymore, either.

Sorry everyone. Because of some interesting developments, I will be in a place with irregular or no internet for two months. I will not be posting regularly.

An ozone stench fills the tunnel as you are led to the "sun". You reach a massive spherical chamber with a flickering, spitting red sphere in the center. It is burning like the flame of a match in the rain. Plants of every description cover the entirety of the chamber walls. Pigmen scramble up...

The only time I used a roc, it was carrying a small whale in its talons. The players crapped themselves and ran away.

Inspired by Arabian Nights. Glittering Gorge (36.02) Anyone with a decent looking-glass can gaze into the this treacherous gorge and see that many of its the stones are studded with jewels. The local orcs think little of gems, but understand that outsiders will kill for them. Instead of...

Antar (22.29) This town towers above the desert. Its mudbrick edifices - some of which stand ten stories high - contain residences, shops, warehouses and civic offices, often on different floors of the same structure. Vegetable gardens survive on the sunbaked rooftops. Bridges connect the...

He leads you across the room and down many steps. The journey is ponderous, especially when you must step over debris. Your guide wheezes with every step, but refuses to rest. He says it is not wise to linger in the "interzone". Finally, you rech the bottom of the steps. You find yourself in a...

Sukri pokes around the campsite. He doubts the gnolls have left anything worth selling, so he focuses more on finding evidence of visitors or unusual intentions.

There can't be just one tiefling in all of the Shrouded Lands! Inspired by Octavia Butler's novel Wild Seed. Baelton (42.11) A man named Tief jumped in the Font of Chimalia (31.19) in the prime of his life and has not aged for many mortal lifetimes. As one of the first outsiders to be trained...

Sukri, having said his piece, follows Libros to investigate the campsite. Perception +7

73) The dragon is the guardian of a vast library. Most of its books are mundane, but they are deemed dangerous by powers that be or simply very rare. The dragon is loathe to destroy any of the precious books, so clever adventurers can use the bookselves as cover.

Skill challenges are fun. I like the idea of partial successes but not simply as half of a "full" success. Seems kind of like it has more potential. Maybe a partial success would be doing something that has good and bad consequences. Maybe on a partial success you are able to jump on the ledge...

Sukri crosses the stream and hustles up the cliff, winded as much from exhilaration as from exertion. It's already over. The creature's blood flows onto the rocks and leaves. The gnolls seemed much more horrifying in the night. The sunlight revealed them for what they are, he thinks - mangy...

The gnoll's decision to flee upward surprises Sukri. He takes a few steps forward and raises his bow. The gnoll's exposed back is an easy target and the arrow slams into it. 1d20+5=21, 1d6+1=6

The Forbidden Glacier (1.32) Those who follow the Growling River upstream through punishing hills and parched scrubland will be surprised to find that its source is an immense glacier that fills a valley between two barren peaks. The glacier is unlike ice elsewhere because it melts in moonlight...