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A short respite- part 2 They set up camp as they waited for the skies to clear up and the water to drain into the lake and the swamps. They lacked dry woods and other commodities to get a good fire going, and so they spend the first day cold, wet and miserable. However, in the evening the...

A short respite- part 1 The friends took the horses of their enemies and the full plate armors from the priest and Colonel Gihjan and put them into their bag of holding. This, however, forced them to spill out a small mount of copperpieces which they had looted from Marilvaz's tomb. As he saw...

I am "other". All I ever do is this: 1. I say with a dead-pan voice:" X {insert monstername here} attack you. Roll initiative". 2. We roll some dice until the battle is over. 3. Loot gets distributed 4. If necessary the people who died roll new characters. 5. Goto 1. And we do this...

Unwelcome visitors- part 4 of 4 Torn and Niklas stood still, trying to find tracks in the sand of the bank. Then, Torn saw a new footprint appearing out of nowwhere, started running and pointed in the direction. Niklas picked it up, ran and slammed into something small and invisible, and Torn...

:D Thanks a lot, Corwyn! I am flattered and happy to hear that you are enjoying yourself!

Unwelcome visitors- part 3 Throughout the night, they took turns copying the ritual from the walls of the tomb. While some of them laborously copied sign by infernal signs, the others slept, and except for Niklas, they took turns. The monk had by now mastered a technique he had learned from a...

Scott, I am glad and flattered to hear you like it! :) I had to up Saddayat's level. At the time of the encounter, some of the player character had reached sixth level. Since I think that major villains should be at least a little bit more powerful than the players, I raised Saddayat's level to...

Unwelcome visitors- part 2 The moment the door was fully opened, Trepat and Torn let their arrows fly and Jhevarra was hit in the chest by both arrows. There was a short flash of light, as the electricity discharged, and she crashed forward, dead. Trepat turned around to the spiral staircase...

Talix, it is suggested in the module to let the players roll for the monsters if they use the dungeon to their advantage. So, they did that- one player read the description in the Monster Manual aloud, and then they decided together what the monsters should do. The players were fair enough not...

Oh, and here is a little background information I think I hadn't given before. When I had finished the introduction and first chapter of my storyhour, I was thinking of a name. At that time, for some strange reason, I was listening to the song "Jeanny" by Falco, since it came up in rotation in...

Unwelcome Visitors- part 1 The intruders walked through the entrance chamber without faltering once. They simply ignored the carvings in the wall- obviously they hadn’t come to the tomb in order to admire the craftmanship. When they reached the fork the leader paused. He examined the wall for...

So it looks like I will be able to conclude this trilogy sooner than I had thought! Alright, guys, of to the truly fun part of the adventure- and I liked the whole adventure, but this was truly something special, I think.

The tomb of Marilvaz the sage- part 4 of 4 No one of them was able to decipher the writing on the wall. However, since it's mere letters were looking wicked, it seemed plausible that it was the language of hell. This was most likely the ritual. Jan looked around, seeing if there was anything...

Nightfall, you are right. The next chapter will be about the part to which I had been looking forward to ever since I had read the adventure for the first time. I only hope that the third part of the trilogy will be out soon. Talix, I hope you will like what comes next! :)

The tomb of Marilvaz the sage- part 3 of 4 The floor of the gaming room was covered with black and white tiles, giving it the look of an oversized chessboard. The only furniture in it were four tables and some chairs positioned around them. On one table, there was the inevitable heavy tomb, on...

The tomb of Marilvaz the sage- part 2 Once they had recovered from their embarassement, they searched the room and while Torn and Trepat openly admired the murals and statues, Niklas and Jan tried to avoid looking at anything they considered pornographic- given the nature of the room, an almost...

The tomb of Marilvaz the scribe "Since there had been a secret door in this pit, I would like to check out the other one as well", Torn announced, and shortly after, he was in the first pit, searching the walls for hallowed spaces. It didn't take long until he called up to them:"Found it!". In...

An audience with the archfiend- part 4 of 4 There was nothing they could do right now to solve this mystery, so Niklas and Jan lit up their lanterns and went into the big halfcircular caveopening that was the entrance of the tomb. There was one artificial tunnel leading further into the tomb...

Oh, I am keeping track of time as well and stick to the calendar. But I am rather flexible with the moon-phases, for two reasons: 1) The amount of moonlight is sometimes vital for me to set a mood. So, I choose the moonphase according to the mood I want to set. (As long as it stays within a...

Actually I prefer being vague when it comes to the moon cycles. This way, I can have the moons in whatever phase I find fitting for an adventure. Or just think of the adventure line in the Mithril sourcebook, where the nameless orb hangs in the skies for the entire storyline, eclipsing the sun...