A very quick session this time! The group has successfully defeated the cult of the bloom and the stolen lands where allowed a moment of piece.

Using the life energy of the caves that the cult was located in, the group was able to grow themselves a new companion. The Wee Baby Fang is a baby dino that Rex had adopted way back when the curse of the cult first started to rear its head. Exposure to the magics of the cave has caused her to hatch and grow! She is now Rox’s animal companion.

Something a little different. I have recently gotten my hands on Gentle’s Dungeon Guide 2 a nice little dungeon generator for Shadowdark. However, it really can be used for just about any fantasy RPG. Using it, I was able to generate a little dungeon adventure that I am going to share here.

Game masters looking for a quick adventure can use this as a base. Players wishing to play this should give this to their game masters and stop reading now! Lest they be spoiled.

Big fights this time! The group clears out the rest of the Cradle of Lamantshu and gets rid of the cult of the bloom!

Encounters of the Gnome Kind

After passing through a yellow mold infested room, the group started hearing some sad humming.

Investigating further, the group caught a glimpse of the source of this humming. He glowed faintly and then passed through a suspiciously smooth stone wall. Rox smashed his way through, revealing that the wall was not natural and was infact placed there by a shape stone spell

The end and start of the year is usually a time for reflection and planning. In this post I wanted to try to put what I currently feel about RPGS into words. I go over where I am coming from, what I personally like, what I am lukewarm on and what I feel is bad for games.

Where I am Coming From

I was first exposed to RPGs in the form of 5e. Long ago when I was in highschool one of my friends ran me and some other friends through a combat using 5e. That night we created characters using an app on our phones and I think we only had one combat before having to leave since making characters took us a good long while. I was immediately interested but, I was never able to get into a group. The friend that helped us make characters did not want to GM and was a player in a full group. I did not know of any other folks that where into that so the idea of playing these games was put on the back burner for a long while.

New year new problems for our merry band! In this session, the group started by visiting Greengripe. Then they started their direct assault on the Cult of the Bloom. Hoping to stop them once and for all. They also made some new friends from old enemies.

Greengripe

The party began play at the ramshackle town of Greengripe. This goblin settlement had clearly seen better days. Half of the town had been burned down and the food stores of the town where clearly in the red.

This ep is going to be the last adventure using the colostle system, At least for now! Wanda will be adventuring on the surface or somewhere else. Still diving down into the debts of the colostle while also exploring the Roomlands.

In this ep, Wanda dives into a massive labyrinth to get the Goblet of Healing for Lisset. After getting this for her, Wanda will be free to return to the surface by asking the great Mounted Telenna for help.

2024 was a cool year and in this post I hope to go over it a little and also look forward to 2025. I go over the games that I played in 2024 and also look forward to games that I want to play in 2025.

Games of 2024

In short, I played a lot of Pathfinder 2e. I hope to keep playing it into 2025. I still have my Kingmaker campaign going and I think we will keep playing that into 2025. My group is actually moving along at a great pace and we might be able to get fairly close to finishing the whole module by the end of next year. If we do, that would be a massive accomplishment!

In a recent session with my kingmaker group, we all got a chance to use the Pf2e Research subsystem. I thought it would not be a good experience but was happily surprised with how enjoyable it was.

Me being me, I started to get ideas of how to use a variant of this sub system to explore a dungeon in a mapless fashion! The subsystem is very simple at its core and turning it into a mapless dungeon procedure is something I am sure others have done before me. However, here is how I would go about making a Pathfinder 2e Dungeon Exploration Subsystem.

In this short session the group makes a key discovery about the affliction spreading across the land and launch an investigation to find the source of the corruption.

A Feast Gone Wrong

After winning the competition, the Embeth Travelers held a feast to celebrate the group’s accomplishments.

Sadly the feast was interrupted by a most unwelcome occurrence. In the middle of the feast, one of the waiters started to feel unwell and made a hell of a scene. Yelling and screaming he ran out of the hall to the back of a stable.

The group talks to the leader of the Embeth Travelers, lovingly named, Jimmy! They compete in a hunting competition. Killing all manner of beast, including a Tyrannosaurus! They also find a suspicious creak that seems to have an unusually large amount of First World magics tainting it.

Dinner on the Roof

The group enjoys a lovely feast on the second floor of the Hunter’s Lodge. The Embeth Travelers serve their guests a full 3 course meal and the group is able to socialize with the 3 groups that they where going to be competing with.