I have gone back and forth with myself on the map I would use for Weaverville. I knew that I didn't want to use the map of Phandalin that comes in the box, as it's more of a village than a town. If I was doing a settlement of 400 people it would be fine, but I wanted something closer to 1000 people; a small town or large village. I originally planned on using the Sanborn map of Weaverville from 1889 which shows a population of 1000 people. I actually did a lot of work based on this map, but have decided against using it. Instead, I'm going to use a map generated by watabou's Village Generator  because it's less work and offers me several advantages regarding the style of the map (b&w, color, night, simplified). I took the map and layered some text over it and badda-boom, badda-bing I have a settlement of 980 people. It's not the historical Weaverville, but I think it will make for a more playable location and do quite nicely for the purposes of our game. Wel...

Technically, not #001, as it's pretty apparent that this group has been going on for a while now. But, it's new to me. What am I talking about? Well, I decided to get out of my shell and join the RPG community after a long hibernation from actively participating in the hobby. I looked up Dungeons & Dragons on the Meetup website a while back, sat on the results for weeks, and finally decided to take the plunge. Today, I joined a group at the local game store for an afternoon of adventure. The meetup event is called Random Encounter and purports to be a series of one-shots or short campaigns of various systems.  I joined the event on Meetup  and the DM Mike reached out to me Saturday morning. They're playing DnD 5e right now and asked if I was familiar with the game. I said I was experienced and open to playing just about anything, what did their group need. The answer, they need a magic user (obviously an old school DM here), so I've made a wizard. They're playin...

  ~ Adventure Between Sessions ~ 1 Winterwane 5023 VA Traveling with Sildar Hallwinter Sildar Hallwinter is a human warrior, war hero, retired Colonel of the Ajwain military, and agent of the Consortium who was traveling with Gundren Rockseeker , captured and held prisoner by the bogbir Klarg and his band of goblin bandits, and rescued by The Order of Righteous Peregrination .  When the Order found him he was weakened, wounded, bruised, and bloodied, having been badly beaten and tormented by the goblins. Garnet caught him as he was pushed from a ledge and most likely saved his life. Even still, when he was freed from his bonds he insisted on helping his rescuer to his feet, took a sword from one of the goblins, and refused any assistance during the 5-mile trek back to the horses and oxcart, making the trip without complaint and with impressive tenacity given his state. Sildar Hallwinter is a gracious and considerate human male of nearly fifty years who holds a place of honor i...

  2023/06/10 Session 4: Goblin Trouble (Campbell, Doug, Gryffon, Madeline, Ronn, Zak ( on Zoom ) ) 1 Winterwane 5023 Early in the day, the members of The Order of Righteous Peregrination were overtaken by an aelfar woman on horseback, who approached without malice and with only minor curiosity in our eclectic band of travelers. Identifying herself as Lúthien the Spider , a tradeswoman and entrepreneur of many and varied interests. Showing off an adamantine staff whose head was exquisitely shaped into a large, convincing spider and explaining that her nom de plume is a result of her extensive web of agents, investors, clients, and suppliers. “My associates say, I am like a spider at the center of my web, pulling the strings of commerce and progress.” With dark hair threaded with silver wisps and a cloak spun with a silver web design, she had undoubtedly embraced the analogue. Lúthien claimed to be looking for a trio of dwarven brothers, the Rock-something-or-others, with whom she ...

2023/04/01 Session 3: Friends, Enemies, and Ox Carts (Campbell, Doug, Gryffon, Madeline, Ronn, Zak) 20 Deepsnow 5023 VA Our band of gentle adventure-seekers has taken upon themselves the mantle of The Order of Righteous Peregrination and under that incorporation arranged for a meeting with the town council in two days time. 21 Deepsnow 5023 VA The Order of Righteous Peregrination, in conjunction with the sheriff and with the help of several locals, returned to the sea cave beneath Charnock House,  extracted the stolen goods contained therein, and delivered them to the town officials to be properly identified and returned to the rightful owners. 22 Deepsnow 5023 VA After meeting with the Eureka town council the band receive a reward of 2,000 silver scepters and arrange to have the cargo from The Golden Enterprise expedited through the customs process and released into their hands. 23 Deepsnow 5023 VA The road north out of Eureka makes for an easy, well traveled tradeway as it avoi...

  2023/03/19 Session 2: Charnock House Part 2 (Campbell, Doug, Gryffon, Madeline, Ronn, Zak) 19 Deepsnow 5023 VA When last we left our band of gentle adventurers they had regrouped in the secret cellar beneath Charnock House . A place showing all the indications of being used as living quarters for a large group of nerdowells, brigands, pirates, or outlaws calling themselves the Redbrands . Lanterns wash the room with their warm glow, a large pot of stew simmers on the fireplace, two captives sit with bound hands upon the floor, and large red letters scrawled upon the barred door at the far end of the room warn of some “DANGER!” beyond. After questioning the captive Redbrands, and at the prompting of the former captive Ned Shakeshaft , our band entered the DANGER! room. Beyond that clearly marked door they faced a half-dozen animated skeletons intent on adding the band to their number. While the fight raged, the brigands were able to free themselves and Ned retreated from the room...