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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samothdm" data-source="post: 2139877" data-attributes="member: 5473">Everyone's campaigns sound cool...My World of Samoth Campaign: This is the one I DM.  Next Saturday will be our first April session for the game.  The Company just breached the Inner Vault of the Banewarrens and fought off "The Betrayed" last session.  The sorcerer/cleric in the party just recently got his clerical powers returned to him and so next session promises to be interesting as he continues exploring the real reason behind why he lost his powers in the first place.  There are lots of interesting twists and turns in the Banewarrens plot that will be coming up, but I don't want to give away any spoilers.Weeknight Dawnforge Campaign: Our next session isn't scheduled until the Wednesday after next.  Last session, we were investigating something called "The Root of Lathail's Willow", 'Lathail' being the name of the "proto-Lolth" deity of Dawnforge.  Given that my character is a Night Elf, and Lathail is trying to corrupt the true nature of the Night Elf people with her evil insidious ways (as my character sees it) the next few sessions in April should  be interesting.Most exciting for me...the return of our Middle Earth campaign!  I think it's been about a year since the group played in this one.  We went on extended hiatus because one of the player-couples had a baby and they couldn't make the sessions for awhile.  Given the earth-shattering events that were happening in the campaign, and because they were so integral in forging those events, we didn't want to continue without them.  Today was our first day back.  We're in the East, where the two Blue Wizards went millennia ago after they were sent to Middle Earth.  It's about 1000 years after the War of the Ring, and through a series of circumstances, a descendant of one of the Nine Human Kings (who eventually became the Nazgul) has come into possession of one of the Rings of Power (I think it's one of the nine human rings).  Our party accidentally gave it to him without realizing who he was or what the ring was.  At the time, in fact, none of the players even realized we were technically playing in Middle Earth.  Anyway, at today's session we continued our way through a weird maze built by the dwarves eons ago.  The maze houses a key that can be used to unlock the secrets of how to use the forge of the original Forge God (I forget the name Tolkien gave him and we use a different name in our campaign since we're in the East and it's 1000 years later).  We need to use the forge because it's the only thing in existence that is known to be able to work "galvorn", a meteoric metal.  We need the galvorn to forge a sword so we can kill one of the last dragons, named Corralon.  Corralon has become so powerful that he's actually flown to Valinor and is fighting the gods for control of Middle Earth.  It's a long story.  There is a prophecy of Corralon that says, "No weapon of this earth can harm him" or something like that, and we all thought it would be a good idea to try to find meteors, get the metal, and forge a sword that could be used to kill him.   That's our big plan.  At the end of the session, after some pretty intense combats (one involving an old-school "Type IV" demon - I forget the new name), we obtained the key.  I can't wait for the next session!</blockquote>

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