We recap a ransom gone wrong and talk about the importance of irrevocable consequences when the dice hit the table. Daniel gives out the mystical DCs that turn 5e into Apocalypse World (spoiler alert: 12 and 20). Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/99.
“River Valley Breakdown” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The gg no re-ers talk about why 5e’s default implementation of Inspiration is unsatisfactory, how they’ve experimented with changing it, and a simple hack to improve it.
No actual play this week because Daniel thought the recording was garbage. Instead, just a recap. Alternate titles: Make Basilisks Great Again; A Game of Fetuses. The crew heads into the ruined dragon shrine again, fights 5e’s nerfed version of the basilisk, meets another living snekman, and a PC dies while his player is asleep.
“River Valley Breakdown” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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An intimate session. John/Evenstar and Tim/Cleophus pick up some hirelings and explore the dragon shrine again.
Jeff Rients made a lovely table/mechanic for acquiring hirelings and henchmen. You can grab the pdf that Daniel made of Jeff’s rules here. It looks a little something like this.
Skerples made a fantastic post taking snippets about historical rulers and turning them into random tables. Plus we’re continuing to play this session in the Tomb of the Serpent Kings.
“River Valley Breakdown” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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An intimate session. John/Evenstar and Tim/Cleophus pick up some hirelings and explore the dragon shrine again.
Jeff Rients made a lovely table/mechanic for acquiring hirelings and henchmen. You can grab the pdf that Daniel made of Jeff’s rules here. It looks a little something like this.
Skerples made a fantastic post taking snippets about historical rulers and turning them into random tables. Plus we’re continuing to play this session in the Tomb of the Serpent Kings.
“River Valley Breakdown” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Here are a couple more annotations Daniel made for running T1: The Village of Hommlet.
Moathouse exterior, with Gygax’s flavor text
The Church of St Cuthbert, with routines and proverbs
Recap, in which Cleophas the ex lake redneck considers an offer from a pirate captain. Evenstar the dragon cultist gets her hands dirty with violent schismatics.
“River Valley Breakdown” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Per the request of Erin in the comments, here are some examples of the kind of the marginal minimaps and annotations I was making in my prep to run Deep Carbon Observatory.
Also, you should use Claytonian’s version of the dungeon map, which I unfortunately didn’t have access to at the time: http://killitwithfirerpg.blogspot.jp/2017/07/deep-carbon-observatory-map-fan-map.html.
Cleophas the ex lake redneck considers an offer from a pirate captain. Evenstar the dragon cultist gets her hands dirty with violent schismatics.
“River Valley Breakdown” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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As promised so long ago, here are the annotated maps Daniel used to run T1.
The yellow cones on the moathouse map indicate the areas in which the party may be detected by lookouts inside the moathouse.
I converted AC to ascending, but the other stats are pretty much by the book.
Click the images for links to pdfs of the same.
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