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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Older Beholder" data-source="post: 8708716" data-attributes="member: 6813585">I ran my first session haven taken over from one of the DMs in our group who’d been running a campaign for over two years which finished recently with our characters reaching level 20.Our sessions are usually 3 hrs, played over discord.I may have undercooked the prep a little bit as I didn’t have a huge amount planned going in.It was a good excuse to flesh out a homebrew town I had an idea for as a jumping off point. They all left it to the last minute to write their characters so there wasn’t a huge amount of tying in backstories, but I‘m OK with building that stuff in the first couple of sessions. I did a tavern start with the players introducing their characters and on a positive note, I went to the bathroom after their introductions and came back to find them still just role playing amongst themselves. Leaving the tavern later the party encountered a Nibolg giving a little street performance, surrounded by a group of Goblins and Boggles. They demand the group pay for watching the performance and a fight breaks out. To try and make the fight a bit more memorable the Nibolg was using a Gazer beholder that’s been impaled on a spike as a scepter. There was some roleplaying in the aftermath with a few hooks put in front of the characters some they explored and some they didn’t. Eventually a talking flower (I used Amidor from Wild Beyond the Witchlight) approaches the group in service of a sorcerer, looking to hire adventurers to help track down a missing Yuan-Ti warlock, last seen in the swamplands nearby. From there it was onto the adventure with a bit of exploration and another combat scene before finding a clue. And that was pretty much where we left off.In the end I had a few extra scenes that we didn’t get to and some other things that the group didn’t explore, not to mention a bit of detail I forgot. But everyone seemed to enjoy it.Next session will be exploring a Duergar tomb, visiting a new part of town and meeting the mysterious employer.</blockquote>

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