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Message: <blockquote data-quote="War Golem" data-source="post: 994634" data-attributes="member: 142">To my 3 semi-interested readers, I apologize for the delay in posting. I've been away on vacation. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Hi Welverin,Thanks for taking a look.The Jester's chart can be pretty devastating. Some of the stuff the players rolled ended up being either too debilitating, or would have knocked the campaign way off track. I gave them a partial "out" by the end of the adventure, though, as you'll see.Hi Sarellion,Let's start with the easy stuff...Leta, the kzinti rogue is no longer with the group. In one of the earliest adventures, the Questioning explored an ancient Khaos temple, although they had no idea of its particular significance at the time. It was just a dark, scary place that housed a demonic black panther, which tore them up a bit before escaping its centuries of confinement. This creature is the forvalaka, which the Questioning later learned is a harbinger of the arrival of the Khaos Lords on the Prime Material Plane.Back on point... the Questioning discovered a few items of interest in the temple, including a pair of vials filled with a murky black oil. Magical identification failed to reveal the nature of this oil. Leta carried around one of these vials for quite a long time, not knowing what it really was but figuring it was some magical potion.Much later, the Questioning were trapped in a mage's tower, under assault from an elven sorceress and her vampyre and troll minions. The situation was looking a bit grim, and Leta, wounded and desperate, decided to take a chance and drank the black oil. Unfortunately, quaffing the distilled essence of Khaos did nothing to aid the rogue. In fact, after the party escaped the tower, Leta's health began to deteriorate rapidly. The party sought out a druid to help, but was ambushed and Leta was kidnapped by a giant-sized, dark being that called itself Ghostwalker. Leta was still clinging to life at this point, albeit weak, nappy-furred, club-footed, and covered in sores and hives.Her eventual fate remains unknown...<><><><><><><><>Nali are a race of my own devising. I saw a creature in an old Larry Elmore painting called "Journey to the Gathering," and created an entire race base on the one picture. I'll post their full write-up soon.Here's a link to the picture:<a href="http://www.larryelmore.com/LarryElmore/ZGallery/Color/zzPages/JourneytotheGathering.html" target="_blank">Journey to the Gathering</a> <><><><><><><><>Background on the world... I'll keep this brief, but if you have any specific questions, just ask.Much of my world is intentionally vague; a backlash of sorts to players who know every damn detail of everything there is to know about Greyhawk, the Realms, Krynn, what have you. I prefer the players to have to figure things out as they go, and this has worked well for my current group, at least half of whom had little or no gaming experience prior to this campaign.The general flavor of the campaign and the world, though, is on par with Greyhawk or FR, with respect to magic and technology level. The general mood of the game is not as serious or dark as I would sometimes prefer, and the subject matter might suggest. This is due to a combination of my players, who, as a group, are not hardcore gamers and are not overly serious about their characters or the game (although Heian and Six are probably notable exceptions to this), and also the fact that I tend to play a lot of my NPCs for comic effect... in a mild, understated kind of way. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> <><><><><><><><>Okay, more to come in the next couple days, including more background, some pictures and another update.Cheers,</blockquote>

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