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Out of the Abyss: the Pearl of Overconfidence.
Wow. Hard to believe it has been almost a year since the last session of my Fifth Edition Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Babies & traveling & softball &steam pipe explosions: there's been...
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Out of the Abyss: Battle of the Black Monolith.
I'm feeling pretty good about the challenge level of my game! Out of the Abyss is my first Fifth Edition campaign & uh, honestly I don't really believe in "balanced encounters" except for in the...
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The Sword, the Crown & the Unspeakable Power: the Hunger: Session Zero.
MythologyIn the beginning there was only hunger. Then the hunger bore fruit, that it might eat. This resulted in the rise of civilization, humans who picked, & harvested, & ate their fill....
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Out of the Abyss: Escape from the Black Monolith!
This session followed hot on the heels of last session's big battle, & was in a very real way "round two." The players have been exploring the Whorlstone Tunnels in Gracklstugh, & having...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: Battle Royale!
The prior session of our Star Wars campaign was the obligatory race sequence that George Lucas baked into the setting's foundations; this chapter of Star Wars: End of Empire flowed right into the...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: The Gargoyle.
After tonight's End of Empire session I feel pretty good about my ability to make roleplaying choices have cosmological consequences: honestly I think it is something I've always been good at as a...
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Out of the Abyss: Farewell to the Whorlstone Tunnels.
Looking out at the game table from behind the Dungeon Master's screen can be such an interesting & singular perspective. You know what's behind Door Number One & Door Number Two, but somehow...
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Guildmasters' Guide to Waterdeep: The Yawning Portal.
I've never been a Magic: the Gathering player, since I'd rather dive into a roleplaying game if I can get a bunch of nerds together, but I have always admired the background worldbuilding. I picked up...
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Dino Dread!
It is just after the first “Jurassic Park” has happened but scientists working for Biosyn managed to retrieve the dinosaur DNA that Ned tried to steal. In the subsequent years, Biosyn has created...
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Guildmasters' Guide to Waterdeep: Blood in the Streets.
Running this Guildmasters' Guide to Waterdeep weekly lunch game mashing up Waterdeep: Dragon Heist&Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica has turned out to be a lot of fun, & judging from the events...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: Interlude.
Imperator Pryl is clad in a minimalist breathing mask & turtlenecked white bodysuit, like an inverted version of a stormtrooper’s underarmor marked with a red Imperial wheel; once pristine, now...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: Before the Dark Times.
Imperial Interlude: Promotions All AroundIt has been a little while since the last time we had a chance to played my Star Wars: End of Empire campaign, but when those stars did align, back in the...
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Star Wars: Phoenix One: Secretary Xat
Secretary Zinn-Moad XatFormer Imperial Minister Human Mystic (Advisor) Brawn: 2 Agility: 2 Intellect: 3 Cunning: 3 Willpower: 3 Presence: 3 Wounds: 12 Strain: 14 Soak: 3 Defense: 2 Skills: Charm: 2,...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: the Phantom Planet.
(Notes & doodles by Joey Ammons.)Arriving at Kamino, our heroes's ships are escorted down to Geddon, a vast ghost town of three saucer arcologies, littered with stabilizing antenna, struts &...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: The Benthic Stratagem.
The Droid CollaboratorDeep beneath the seas of the cloner planet, Kamino, the heroes of our Star Wars campaign, End of Empire, have come across some sort of pelagic Observatory, a secret subnautical...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: the Question.
New Republic Defense FleetArriving at the ships in the docking bay of the sinking Kaminoan arcology, Raj's desperado Jax Cadderly& his sidekick Sshushath the Zode, with Joey's replicant Jolit right...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: the Return to Ord Mantell.
Project: EGGEATERChyron:"The Drift": Kuras System, Elrood Sector.We return to End of Empire after the recent cliffhanger episode with a long shot out of a comet streaking through space with a brilliant...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: Race You To the Surface!
In the Belly of the BeastTheynur Kötturinn the Farghul explorer & Force sensitive played by Burke in our End of Empire campaign, is inside a large room that is a mix of austere & luxurious...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: Dramatis ex Machina.
Mazes & MynocksChyron:"Deepdock Kython": Subsurface Shipyard, Ord Mantell.Our Star Wars: End of Empire campaign has split off into two forks; last session was the "Dathomir" arc, but now we return...
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