Sean Does Games

Flying Ostriches In my homebrew campaign, there is a region known as the Piruna Fields . It is a collection of islands far removed from the rest of the "civilized world." Its inhabitants ( consisting mostly of feral gnomes and firbolgs ) rely on nature and the manipulation of natural processes to meet their homeostatic needs. For most of these peoples, then, it's unlikely they would ever see something as advanced as an airship let alone own one and know how to use it. This presented an interesting puzzle for me to solve. How do the peoples of Piruna Fields get around? Even though I had established that most folks never leave their island, there would be cause for occasional visits to far-away lands. This is especially true of the tabaxi folk whose wanderlust would leave them very unhappy should be they stranded on just one island. And a recent session made the need to solve this riddle more urgent. To that end, I came up with the idea of the flying ostrich, wholly inspire...

  Introduction A little while back I started a once-per-month  Dungeons and Dragons  campaign in my  Skyfell setting  that I call  The Rise of the Glutton . I wanted to provide my players with a log of their adventures and then realized that such a log might make for fun blog posts. See  Rise of the Glutton  in my  Session Index  for a complete listing. The cast is: Rodney - Tauffae Twofeather Topshelf - male orc, Fighter (Champion) Dan - Drekzhar - male minotaur, Bard/Rogue (College of Swords, Swashbuckler) Laura - Meribore Softwalker - female fitbolg, Druid (Circle of the Moon) Megan - Bronte Whitewinter - male firbolg, Cleric (Tempest Domain) Jeff - Omagoshno - male rock gnome, Artificer (Artillerist) Session 26 - The Heroes of Moss Creek : Gnome, Sweet Gnome Preparation I have a general idea of where I want this arc to go and what it needs to reveal as its story unfolds but I have not yet worked out the concrete details for each sess...

Introduction After running a   Dungeons and Dragons  campaign in my  Skyfell setting  for a little over nearly two years, I decided to start up a second campaign that I'm calling The Clockwork Files. As with my other campaign, I'm documenting the sessions here.  See  The Clockwork Files  in my  Session Index  for a complete listing. The cast is: Chandler - Poly (male changling celestial warlock) Daniel - Uldin~gern (male vedalkan wizard) Jeff - IamTaoOm (male firbolg druid) Jordyn - Zokia (female goliath fighter) Mando - DENVer (male swiftstride shifter rogue) Sinister Secrets - The Nemmonise Mansion Preparation I did all the heavy lifting for this arc before the first session. As a result, there was very little to do for the second. The biggest thing was to figure out a story-appropriate means to get DENVer (Mando’s character) into the game. I eventually went with the laziest trope imaginable but it worked well enough and it certainly w...

Introduction A little while back I started a once-per-month  Dungeons and Dragons  campaign in my  Skyfell setting  that I call  The Rise of the Glutton . I wanted to provide my players with a log of their adventures and then realized that such a log might make for fun blog posts. See  Rise of the Glutton  in my  Session Index  for a complete listing. The cast is: Rodney - Tauffae Twofeather Topshelf - male orc, Fighter (Champion) Dan - Drekzhar - male minotaur, Bard/Rogue (College of Swords, Swashbuckler) Laura - Meribore Softwalker - female fitbolg, Druid (Circle of the Moon) Megan - Bronte Whitewinter - male firbolg, Cleric (Tempest Domain) Jeff - Omagoshno - male rock gnome, Artificer (Artillerist) Session 25 - The Heroes of Moss Creek : Moss Creek Memories Preparation The players wanted to take care of the evil presences in the passage at the back of the temple, to open up the sealed secret door they had found, and to return Marnib to Mo...