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Issue #10: "I hate the swamp" - Episode 3 of 5 It is dawn on the third Charday of Charder. Goldpetal, though still quite ill, gamely forces himself through his dawn ritual, at the far end of the island. Miriel also salutes her goddess as the sun rises. By the time they are finished, the rest of...

Re: The swamp It certainly poses a dilemma for an author: if I portray it as gloomy and grey as it was, will anybody read it?

Issue #10: "I hate the swamp!" - Episode 2 of 5 The sun is setting, three hours later. It’s been unbearably hot all day, and there is no cover against the swarms of flies buzzing around our heads. Goldpetal is still sick. Most of us are asleep, and even Chuck and Paks, on watch, are dozing...

Issue #10: "I hate the swamp!" Episode 1 of 5 10th of November, 2002 Issue #10 “I hate the Swamp” After the siege of Kratys Freehold, we decided to pursue the remnants of the ratman army as they retreated into the swamp. We caught them sleeping on a grassy mound, deep in the swamp. In a...

Tell your player that it works the same as "Detect Evil" does for a paladin. To the distaste of paladins everywhere, its not an "always on" ability, but rather, something they have to spend an entire round concentrating on. Now, as a DM with that character in my world, I would certainly use it...

I think that is the mistake, actually. In my game, the character states *an action*. "I push off the wall and try to draw my hidden dagger and stab one of the guards." The GM responds, "Okay, we'll need to roll initiative." Now you get the following: Precisely. If he wins initiative, he...

Issue #9: Milos's Trial. Episode 5 of 5 It is Wildday, the 21st day of Charder, shortly after dawn. We meet up with Goldpetal in the orchard to the south of the freehold. The tracks of the hundred-ratman army are plain for all of us to see, and even Miriel or Telryn could follow them easily...

Issue #9: Milo's Trial: Episode 4 By sunset, about two hours after Paks left, the complex is nearly whole and sound. The barn still looks a little worse for wear – scorch marks are visible in some places – but the repairs are complete. Most of the group is inside, but Stone and Delonia are...

Impartiality, actually - Telryn didn't know Milo from before, and wasn't influenced by prior knowledge. Same reason we couldn't have Delonia sit on the jury, actually. Why, that's the title of the next issue! :)

Paks goes to Milo’s cell, where she finds the halfling sitting on the edge of his bunk. “You have been found innocent,” she says, and kneels on one knee to begin unbinding him. “However, most of the group were concerned about the difficulty in getting forthright answers from you, and we have...

Milo was actually the same player as had earlier been Fergus. I know he's been reading but not posting - as we reach the denoument, here, perhaps he'd be willing to grace the group with a post or two? I wouldn't characterize the player as "trouble" - he's a close friend of mine. But I think the...

I can't speak for the player, but she was quite annoyed with him! Thank you - and welcome aboard!

Issue #9: Milo's Trial. Episode 3 The courtroom slowly empties until only the five jurors remain. Miriel speaks first. She was clearly angered during the trial, but she has leashed her temper, and now her words are measured and rationed. “I don’t trust Milo at all,” she starts, “But I’m not...

Issue #9: Milo's Trial. Episode 2 Before she meditates, Miriel leaves her room to find Myrs and ask her about the writing on the ring. When the young priestess points out the writing on the inside of the band, Myrs examines the ring closely. “That’s weird,” she comments, “It says ‘shield’ in...

Issue #9: Milo's Trial. Episode 1 6th of October, 2002 Issue #9 Milo’s Trial When Stone collapsed, Kratys Freehold was surrounded by a hundred ratmen and the outcome looked bleak indeed. The last thing he remembers is the fight with the dead-eaters and the fire in the barn. Wounded and...

Thank you! Its so nice to feel appreciated! I apologize for the sporadicness of the updates lately - we'd hit a rough point where "In the can" still took some serious work after meeting my editor's critical glance (much appreciated, Sarah!)... and I had too much to do both at work and in my...

Issue #8, The Seige of Kratys Freehold. Episode 6 of 6, the coda When the compound is reported secure, Llewyn takes the seventeen surviving infantry, and they scour the forest and the rat man camp, looking for stragglers, and making sure to collect weapons, gear, and dismantle their siege...

Sorry for the long delay, folks. I hope to be returning to a daily-post format next week, but this week can only offer the coda to the previous issue, episode 6...

Issue #8: The Seige of Kratys Freehold. Episode 5 of 6 The ratmen atop the hall may have been beaten, and their captain killed, but the siege is not yet broken. Twenty archers are still pouring arrows into the complex, the roof of the forge is nearly overrun, and at least fifteen more have...

Issue #8: The Seige of Kratys Freehold. Episode 4 of 6 Things do indeed look bleak for the defenders of Kratys Freehold. The ratmen have breached the eastern wall, and, twenty ratmen have piled to the top of the main hall in the southeast corner. Yet more are atop the forge, the northeast point...