Who Has Actually Played/Run Burning Sky

[RangerWickett]

Details man, details!

All these folks are talking about the first two adventures. I'm eager to hear stories about what happened in the third. I do seem to recall somebody came up with a real estate scheme.

 

[Bayonet_Chris]

We're getting there. We just finished the first one tonight (finally) and nearly completed the ever-popular total party wipe. It was a close thing. That enlarged barbarian was vicious.

 

[Ruavel]

Just another DM posing about having started the first adventure (first session last Friday).

The party started off as fighter, rogue, cleric & a wizard, which is really quite strange because none of the players were allowed to discuss their characters with each other during the creation process. In 18 years of gaming, I've never seem any of my groups make a party so balanced. They also arrived separately becuase we started with them not know one another. The characters are meshing well so far, but we'll see if that continues.

[sblock]The meeting with Torrent went well, but the subsequent battle took a while (mostly due to poor rolls by the PCs). I repositioned some of the extra thugs immediately outside the side doorn and had a wonderfully comic sitution where the wizard ran from the attackers at the front door, opened the side door and was rendered unconscious with a single hit from a thugs sap.

In Act 2, the PC's unintentionally killed Larion (shot him off the top of the wall/fence around the depositoary tower), but the lantern archon got away.

Finally, the crashed wyvern-rider was dealt with beautifully with a daze spell. Left him standing there unable to act while the fighter took the kid out of his hands. Very nicely done.[/sblock]

We're loving the adventure. Session 2 tomorrow night and I can't wait to see how the upcoming potential combats go, and how the PCs react to Diogenes & Menash.

 

[Rugult]

See my Larger Post for more information on my current campaign.

We're about halfway through Adventure #2 and only 4 sessions in. An update will come shortly to my main post about our campaign but...

They killed Haddin while he was sleeping in front of his daughter... all because the Rogue thought it was a 'sidequest'.

 

[Bayonet_Chris]

See my Larger Post for more information on my current campaign.

We're about halfway through Adventure #2 and only 4 sessions in. An update will come shortly to my main post about our campaign but...

They killed Haddin while he was sleeping in front of his daughter... all because the Rogue thought it was a 'sidequest'.

I would so make little Crystin run away and become a recurring villain. That's just wrong.

 

[crow81]

Haddin in my game got the Paladin killed. Paladin detects evil and makes an obscure reference to the party that Haddin should be watched. Haddin dominates Paladin and tells him to leave the house. Paladin gets head removed by enlarged barbarian.

No one else knows that Haddin is evil just a jerk

 

[Rugult]

Well... they left the half orc barbarian alone with him. Now I hope I was not the only one who thought of the obvious combo of 'silent charming' a PC to make it so they ignore the dominate being cast! Which I had Haddin do.

Realizing anyone could be next, the rogue successfully stole Haddin's 'spellbook'. it was the only book of the campaign he didn't bother to read! Thus he threw it in the fire, only to see Haddin's memories burned in front of him. He decided it best NOT to tell the party this.

Having the tank firmly under control the party decided to break the dominate. They cast a bunch of buff spells and tried to get him to rage so that he would attack them and break the enchantment. It worked...

Then the Half Orc was pretty ticked and decided to go smash Haddin's head in while he was sleeping! But he woke up before the barbarian reached him, so the rogue shot him with a crossbow bolt. I figured a 'bestow curse' was the least of what I could do to the party members involved.

Should be interesting to see how they progress with that hinderance!

 

[RangerWickett]

Wow. It's . . . it's sad for me to read that. Haddin's a bastard but . . . man.

 

[Rugult]

Wow. It's . . . it's sad for me to read that. Haddin's a bastard but . . . man.

Full followup is posted in my thread... but yeah. I think it was priceless how only moments before the rogue was so touched he shifted to Chaotic Good. After that whole encounter the cleric of St. Cuthbert was wanting to see if he could change to neutral and still be good with his God!

 

[talarei07]

ran one session a couple of weeks ago. here is the cast

all first level.

Human Male Commander (Father was a Ragesian Soldier, who acted like a drill sergeant, so character hates the Ragesian Military)
Human Female Cavalier (From Dassan nobility, should be interesting later)
Elven Male Duskblade (Feels compelled to protect all elves)
two more characters to join in not exactly sure what classes and what not.

First session ended after the battle in the depository. Didn't have too much odd happen except the fight with the Lantern Archon. The archon swoops in when the PC's attack the elf and the cavalier thinks it must be his familiar and walks up to it and shield bashes it back to its home plain (Critical Hit). Look forward to the rest of the adventure.