The Quintessential SH Pimpin' Thread

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9 out of 10 Rat Bastards Agree

The Temple of Elemental Evil 2

3rd person, humorous, a fun read and fun campaign.

Not the version written by Monte Cook, this is our home-brew-'return-to' TOEE, called the TOEE2 and begun three months before the release of 3rd edition. If this campaign was a Hollywood summer movie, it would be called

THE TEMPLE OF ELEMENTAL EVIL 2: YOU DON'T WANT NONE: Sometimes, all the PCs die.

 

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The Risen Goddess

The Risen Goddess campaign follows a quartet of dead characters who return to mortal life unaware of their true selves, their past lives, or the fact that their souls are pledged to a long-forgotten Goddess.

Written in 3rd person present tense, this story is more epic in scale than the TOEE2. The campaign spans game worlds and features a memorable quartet of heroes who find themselves in the center of a deific struggle that threatens to undermine the cohesion of one of the D&D game's most revered pantheons.

Plus, there's dick jokes.

Take me to the Risen Goddess

 

[Bob Aberton]

The Elfblood Wanderers Storyhour is an exciting story hour with an unexciting name. Follow (3rd Person POV) the adventures (all homebrew adventures, Modules need not apply in my campaign) of Nystyra Elfblood, the half-elf wizardess and daughter of a poor wood-cutter. Now she is well on her way to becoming a powerful Witch and a landowner, a force to be reckoned with, in the shattered post-war ruins of Arthurian Avalon after the death of King Arthur. Follow this roleplaying-heavy, well-written campaign as Nystyra learns the hard lessons of magic and nobility. To quote an avid reader of my Storyhour,
it "reads like a good story, not like a blow-by-blow account of a game." Read my storyhour, folks, you won't regret it. The link is in my sig.

 

[Lazybones]

My story's not really new, but I certainly don't get the views of the "big boys," so I'll jump in with some pimpin'. But I'm too lazy to do it myself, so I’ll let my readers do it for me:

Horacio: “Lazybones is a master storyteller.”

wolff96: “It's amazing the depth that each character has, along with the quirks that seperate them from each other. Truly spectacular.”

Broccli_Head: “AMAZING!”

Maldur: “LB is I ever meet you in person, Im first gonna congratulate you on writing a first class story. After that Im punching you in the nose for leaving us with these ENOURMOUS cliffhangers.”

Ziggy: “Incredible twist on the last episode, took me (almost) completly by suprise.”

Talindra: “As long as you keep writing, I'll keep reading!”

Talon: “You did it again! What a great book.”

Krellic: “I look forward to each and every update!”

CoopersPale: “I really love this story hour.”

djrdjmsqrd: “LB, great job writing up these adventures, really are getting better and better with time.”


Links to all threads are in my sig, or download the whole from lazybones18.tripod.com/tttww1-5.zip

 

[Capellan]

Company of the Random Encounter

Action! Adventure! Cheap Laughs!

Company of the Random Encounter is a free-wheeling, casual game in the "piles of dead bad guys" mould of Wulf's Lazy Days campaign. The focus when we play is very much on having fun, and I try to convey that in the story hour.

So come try CotRE: home of the Accidental Feline Inferno. Just try not to laugh too loud if you're reading us at work!

The link is below.

 

[Capellan]

Since we're allowed to pimp other folks Story Hours as much as we like, here are 4 of the under 10,000 hit threads that I think are well worth reading:

Sniktch's Story Hour - City of the Spider Queen
http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26388

Sniktch's Story Hour Prelude - From the Beginning
http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27245

Doom from Below: The Illithid Ascension
http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14295

Servants of the Swift Sword (A Kalamar campaign)
http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17133

 

[Broccli_Head]

Heroes of the Vilhon Reach/Annals of the Stormwolf Legion

Heroes of the Vilhon Reach/Annals of the Stormwolf Legion is set in the Forgotten Realms and follows the adventures of a group of individuals brought together seemingly by chance. However, as the tale has progressed we have discovered that their parents knew each other and have passed on a legacy--an unfulfilled quest--to the children.

Currently, the party is split into two groups; victims of circumstance following plots and hooks that hopefully, will reunite them, so they can complete what their sires could not.

We've had great character development throughout the stories and the format is generally a third person narrative from the perspective of one or more characters. However, at certain points in the story, I have used letters or reports.

Follow the links in the signature and enjoy!

 

[Dr Midnight]

Here are some words of ENTIRELY AUTHENTIC praise for my story hour.

"Each update, each paragraph... verily, each written WORD of Dr Midnight's Knights of Spellforge Keep story hour leaves me breathless and quivering with awe like an amish dude playing gamecube."
-Blood Jester

"I kneel before Dr Midnight's story hour and only pray it will continue to fill my life with its flawless light. Without the Knights of Spellforge Keep story hour, why, I would shrivel up and die, a withered husk of a man. A ruined man. It's better than love, faith, hope, and goodness. It drives back the darkness."
-Horacio

"My only sadness is that because Dr Midnight is mortal, he will one day die... and at that point, I will no longer have his story hour."
-Nail

"I left my own wedding reception when I heard Doc Midnight had updated his story hour. My wife cried for hours, but hey- she doesn't even read it."
-Old One

"A cat that good, you don't eat all at once."
-Piratecat

 

[Rel]

Look on in consternation as Rel steals Old One's fabulous Faded Glory setting!

Watch in AWE as Rel nearly kills the entire party in their first real combat encounter!

Regard with admiration how the party recovers and wins their way through a heavily modified Forge of Fury!

Shudder with Uncontrolable Laughter as they are later brought to their knees by Kobolds!

Gaze in Shock as Rel kills yet another of the Druid's Animal Companions and turns it into an undead abomination!

Howl in Frustration as Rel fails to update the story hour in a timely fashion!


Rel's Faded Glory campaign pits a trio of companions against the best challenges a (unofficial) Rat Bastard DM can come up with. Virtually no encounter is less than CR=Average Party Level +1.

And yes, I am frequently tardy with my updates. But the campaign is over and I only have a few more to post before the whole story is told. So there is an end in sight at least.

If this sounds like a Story Hour you'd like, the link is in my sig.

 

[Desdichado]

Very neat! I love this kind of thing.
-- fenzer

This is *exactly* the story hour that I'm looking for.
-- Jeph

I like it! I like it a lot!
-- Horacio

Wow, I love it.
-- Uvenelei

Glad to hear more updates are forthcoming! This story hour helped inspire me to run a d20 Modern
-- Jodo Kast

The critics agree -- the Shadowlight Chronicles rock! Shadowchasers rules, Dark*Matter-like custom setting, big group of PCs all running around scared: what more could you want on the eve of the release of d20 Modern?

Link in sig file.