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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aegeri" data-source="post: 5388310" data-attributes="member: 78116">Eberron: Dark Prophecy So I had my second session of my Eberron campaign Dark Prophecy and the race ended with a pretty decent contest in the end! The Warforged Assassin (Walker) reached the tower at the end first, followed shortly by the Drow Rogue (Ryske), then the Human Artificer (Tybalt) who was able to avoid being eaten by dogs. The NPC, Garth was fast on their heels with the Hobgoblin Paladin (Marhu) and Gnome Wizard (Squinter) shortly behind. The race up the tower had some failures and tribulations, but ultimately Walkers advantage in getting to the tower first was sufficient to put him over the line! Ryske followed shortly after and Garth ended up falling off the tower for the millionth time. Marhu made a surprising run, scrambling up the tower quickly to pip a wounded Tybalt to the top of the tower. Squinter came in before the NPC Garth, who managed to scramble up once he could take his time.Final Result:1st: Walker (Warforged Assassin)2nd: Ryske (Drow Rogue)3rd: Marhu (Hobgoblin Paladin)4th: Tybalt (Human Artificer)5th: Squinter (Gnome Wizard)6th: Garth (Human Soldier)Ultimately good times were had and oddly it almost finished in a "board game" like manner in some ways. Where you introduce a new player to the game (The guy playing Walker is new to the game) and they invariably win.The party celebrated their victory at not being humiliated by the NPCs in any manner and went to the Warden's daughters wedding, where good food and other things ensured a full extended rest. Tybalt, the artificer got to introduce his players personal nemesis (from his character background) into the story and I got to tie him in with one of the NPCs that the party will be interacting with over the game - Javalanoss (who is loosely inspired by the character of the same name, but has very different goals and motivations - I just liked the name). She'll be more important later, but during the wedding certain "guests" turned up and all havok broke out.I have had this planned for some time now, but the concept that there was this serene peaceful wedding and suddenly "GIANT SPIDERS" has amused me for months. It's always been the opening of the campaign in some ways and I was very pleased with how it all went. The spiders gave their approach away when one attempted to climb up the tent containing the wedding cake. The tent - not designed to handle a spider the size of a large dog - collapsed and there was cake, spider and limbs everywhere! An unfortunate NPC who went to investigate discovered the spider, which was completely covered in wedding cake and most upset first. After a classic horror movie scream, the other spiders that had crept up to the wedding took the opportunity to launch into a surprise attack!Three deathjump spiders from the dungeon masters book (stat block is quite nice) and three young phase spiders (shattered springs adventure) either jumped or teleported into the fray. Knocking down numerous NPCs and generally causing considerable panic. Ms. Milton was promptly envenomated by the cake covered deathjump spider and combat began properly! Many of the spiders easily won initiative, deciding to promptly eat more NPCs and took chunks out of the PCs. The Assassin poked one spider and then the Rogue viciously killed a spider straight up with a critical hit, dealing a considerable amount of damage combined with Sneak Attack. Most of the other spiders spent their time bounding around the combat, charging into PCs and generally biting whoever they could.As the PCs became firmly entrenched and badly wounded fighting the other spiders, a huge white spider called a "White Widow" [inspired by Dark Sun, yes] with an almost crystalline like shape appeared. After stabbing the priest to death violently, the huge spider went ahead with its actual agenda and promptly abducted... the groom! Although of a noble family, he wasn't a particularly significant player and the spiders disinterest in him compared to the extremely valuable bride was unknown. Possibly it just likes eating men? My players are going to have to find that out for themselves. Either way the rapid attack and spinning up of the groom - who was taken alive - was unable to be prevented as the PCs were neck deep in spiders.Eventually control of the situation was regained and while several players ended up bloodied/injured they ultimately made it out fairly unscathed. Most of the NPCs were fairly mauled and the white widow was more than long gone. The next thing that the PCs then contended with was the children at the wedding, who had been playing in a hedged off grotto when the spiders attacked. One of the other NPCs saw some of the spiders go inside there and feared for their safety. The party marched off to squish more spiders, navigating some web traps and being ambushed from dark corners - but had no real troubles from this encounter. After all their racing, spider squishing and other heroics the party earned themselves level 2! Then they learned that the town had been invaded by giant insects, spiders and other creepy crawlies. Just what they needed to hear to cap off their evening of giant spider based wedding crashing.</blockquote>

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