Dramatis Personae or Lambs to the Slaughter

Following their escape from the Shadow Rift the adventurers found that they felt strange and different, they were now 4e characters.  This post will introduce the players, give the characters backgrounds and describe their new personae.

Requiem for a Nightmare - Part Deux

Frustrated at the lack of success in finding Melisana's father the company sailed south to Bridgewater and spent the night.  The party had nightmares of a huge cat hurtling itself upon the character ready to rend flesh, the character then awoke in a tightly confined space, they lift the lids to find themselves in coffins!!   They escaped the coffins, a crypt cat, a horse stampede, a mummy attack and learn of the Koshka Bluffs.  Prince Othmar hired them to find a staff which he allowed them to keep for a price.  Prince Othmar sent them to Castle Faerhaaven to see Sir Hiregaard who told them of strange happenings at his quarry at the Koshka Bluffs.  They also learned of a new great Rift to the west of Nova Vaasa that recently opened where Gehenna used to be.  It is covered with shadows. 

Requiem for a Nightmare

The most recent campaign that I ran started with the players as 0th level 2e characters.  The adventurers found themselves as slaves manacled in a ships hold.  They ship ran aground on an island during a gale and the adventurers soon overcame the remaining pirate.  They found various metal items to use as weapons and with Isis'  help they battled orcs and goblins who were trying to find lost King's treasure (N4 - Treasure Hunt).  Escaping the island in a boat found in the catacombs.  Sailing home to their archipelago the characters found that the father of Melisana (one of the party)  had sailed off in search of her.  The hearty group now enamored with adventuring (and having gained 1st level) decided to sail off in search of her father. 

Through the Past - Darkly

I have been shamed into writing this blog since I am the person who most liked reading the blogs of our two previous adventures, see rogerlmills.blogspot.com and merlins-gate2.blogspot.com.   We are an 8 person D&D group that has been meeting Sunday evenings for 31+ years.  The first Dungeon that the group played was the classic S1- Tomb of Horrors.  We stumbled around the entry hall for several sessions since none of us had ever played D&D previously.  After that we made our way through the G1-3 - Against the Giants followed by several other D&D and AD&D modules.  Sometime we had new dungeons written by a member of our group, the best of which was the Search for the Holy Grail that Mark ran before the DaVinci code was published.