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Behind his bleached lacquered mask, CHANVATI smiles. He had always admired the talents of the pantomime actors of the Black Stage. Had even allowed himself the occasional wistful daydream as a boy of running away, donning the black robes and white mask, and performing on stage. Ah, if not for...

Skill Challenge successfully completed. Rewards: XP = 200 (Level 1, Complexity 2 SC) /4 = 50 XP per PC and 120 gp (Treasure Parcel 1.8), for in the loggers' flight from the scene, amid the abandoned saws and sledges and harnesses, is discovered the foreman's paychest. Further, this is your...

SC progress: 5 Successes/1 Failure/1 Secondary Skill Available/1 Hard DC Available "Blast those curs!" snarls Bordris, though he, too, backs away from the growling "arachnid" in deference. "Who knew spiders could mimic hounds?" he mutters to no one in particular. "Right, then, Leonid, leash...

SC Progress: 4 Successes/1 Failure/1 Secondary Skill Available/1 Hard DC Available The logging train is upon you now, a dozen or more working people wrapped in thick woolens and furs against the deep chill of autumn in this clime. Young Hansel is at the lead beside a burly, whiskered, male...

Combat complete. That earns you 125 x2 (A) + 150 (S) = 400/4 = 100 XP/PC and 1 Success at Moderate DC in the SC. That puts you at 3/6 Successes, 1 Failure, 1 Secondary Skill remaining, 1 Hard DC remaining. You have time for a short rest. Please, in your followup post, note Surges spent/total...

The spider will not be so easily driven off, for it is hungry. And it is not alone. Two other, slightly sleeker spiders drop from the canopy onto the forest floor. Will they get their feast and your story come to an unceremonious close before it's truly begun, or will there be a slaughter of...

"Hansel, wait! Come back!" The woodsman chases after the lad, his torch jumping erratically up and down like a bobber on a fishing line that's done its business. The spider, however, seems none too pleased. It turns three pairs of lambent red eyes in your party's direction and begins to...

"Father, what was that?!?" the boy asks in fright. At first you think he has spotted one of you, but then Toriq sees it: a spider as large as an adult bear moving through the overhead branches; not far from the woodsman and his son; clearly in search of a tasty morsel. It will likely have one...

Okay, it sounds like we've found our first conflict! This sounds like a Skill Challenge, Frighten off the Loggers, L1, C2 (6 Successes before 3 Failures; DCs 8/12/19, 1 Hard DC, 2 Secondary Skills, repeat use of same skill steps up DC Easy -> Moderate -> Hard -> Hard +5). Stakes: Success means...

The men who came to Juniper House, bearing torches and reeking of drink and arrogance, clearly were sent by the Sheriff of Ravenswood, though they were more armed hooligans than sanctioned posse. Stern words from Jendi and Toriq's threatening presence drove them off before they could cause real...

Herein will be the play and record of a solo (1 player, 1 gamemaster) Fiction First, Story Now, No Myth 4E D&D game between myself (as GM) and @Nephis . We will partake of many standard Heroic Fantasy tropes and themes, including many classic D&Disms, but nothing is canonical until it shows up...

Below are the mechanical changes to Chanvati and Bita-Bousseh in leveling them to 10. Of note is that I made some changes via the game's retraining rules, swapping out Chanvati's L5 Daily (to Stand the Fallen) and L6 Utility (to Rousing Words), as well as adding Mind Blast as the L9 Daily and...

With no riders to command them, the giant scorpions are driven off. The siege of Dolg Olsolis is broken, whatever Bladeling stragglers survive limping away to lick their wounds and rejoin the main force of The Legion of Ruth on its march to Bantouk. But at what cost? Nearly all the Dolg's...

QFT! It gets so very tiresome when legitimate attempts at discussion and analysis continually get derailed by Hijackings of the Word Meaning/Usage Variety (HotWMUV ever after; it just rolls off the tongue!).

I have a defense for it: someone claims expertise enough to offer specific analysis of a game they've (1) never played and, (2) at most, only read descriptions of/opinions about or (3) skimmed in part. I think it's not only permissible but advisable to dismiss such a one's uninformed analysis...

The last Bladeling on the field is slain, and there is a brief moment of utter stillness. Then, Xin Mae emerges from behind the safety of an ancient and giant erratic boulder, a quill and sheaves of papyrus desperately clutched in his tight fists. "And on the day of The Battle for the Succor...