The Siege of Eboracum, Part I DM’s note: This is going to be a photo-heavy recap. The entire session largely centered around one large, multiple-wave set-piece battle, with some papercraft building pieces, and I took a large number of photos during our most recent game night. Having just reemerged to the surface world after narrowly […]
This is a continuation and resumption of the game session begun on 12/5/2017. You can read the first part of that adventure recap here. Progressing further through the caverns beneath Witchfyre Tor, the small group eventually finds their way to a large, open chamber, half-filled with a shallow pool of water. Floating in this chamber in […]
From the very beginning of my planning for the Dying Empire, I envisioned it as a long-scale, multiple-level adventure. It was, by far, the most ambitious, large-scale game I’d ever attempted to plot out, much less run. That’s not to say that I haven’t DM’d long-term campaigns before. But every one of them began with […]
“Spider Stomping” The party found themselves summoned to General Publius‘ war room, where the ranking Imperial officer in Britannia laid out a dire forecast of the intelligence his men obtained from the Araenean assassin that the group brought to him. In Publius’ opinion, the Wolf Spiders, while a pawn in the game being played by the […]
Intellectually, I knew it was bound to occur eventually – a player would leave my table, and I’d likely have to recruit a new player (and therefore a new character) into my game. As I’ve said previously, this game is the first time I’m running a game for a group not largely consisting of pre-existing […]
This is a continuation and resumption of the game session begun on 10/4/2017. You can read the first part of that adventure recap here. Resting up from the day’s events in the arena, Dovum asked if Bael’krin would join her for her meeting with Titus, the only other survivor of the shipwreck that so changed her […]
“The White Rose City” Aware of the growing threat to Calcaria, Eboracum, and Britannia as a whole, Maritalis has decided to send the party to Eboracum to warn General Publius, alert him to the true nature of the threat, and ask him to send reinforcements to Calcaria. Getting the group fresh mounts, the centurion wastes […]
This is a continuation and resumption of the game session begun on 9/1/2017. You can read the first part of that adventure recap here. Awakening after their harrowing late-night encounter with the needle blights, the party quickly realized that Cato was in no shape to continue traveling with the group to the Empty Moon clan’s territory. […]
Session III of my Dawn of the Spider campaign marked the fourth time this particular group got together, and the first time I think everyone really settled in together and got something approximating “comfortable” with each other, myself included. This is the first time I’ve DM/GM’d for a group that wasn’t primarily composed of pre-existing […]
“Unfriendly Neighborhood Spider Clan” The assorted barbarian clans surrounding Calcaria face a new threat to their survival. Having survived the arrival of the conquering Quelan legion, the construction of Hadrian’s Wall, and the establishment of garrison after garrison around them, it is a threat from within that truly seems to be the end of the […]
The Dying Empire 