Sean Does Games

This blog is mostly about my homebrew  Dungeons and Dragons campaign called Skyfell, but it's also a place where I can exercise my creative needs. I guess this post falls into the latter. I am fortunate enough to be a player in another Dungeons and Drag ons  campaign where I started playing a satyr School of Eloquence bard named Leneus The Bruce. His bardic magic comes from a blend of stand-up comedy, social criticism, and satire. There's also a touch of Tiny Tim in there for his limited musical repertoire. If you're reading this, you probably already know that bards have an ability called Song of Rest  that helps to recover hit points during a short rest. I absolutely felt a need to write the Song of Rest that Lenny would perform. What follows is that song, based on The Beatles A Hard Days Night , sung in Tiny Tim's silky falsetto. This really is just me appeasing my ego, so take it or leave it. Also, if you do like it, and you play a bard, feel free to borrow it for...

Skyfell Introduction I started a once-per-month  Dungeons and Dragons  game in my  Skyfell campaign setting . 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 the  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) Michelle - Bronte Whitewinter - male firbolg, Cleric ( Tempest Domain) Jeff - Omagoshno - male rock gnome, Artificer ( Artillerist ) Session 21 - Clockworks Of Carnage : Stack Overflow Preparation I have prepped and re-prepped for this particular session multiple times over the last year. So, I didn’t do much this time around other than build out the set pieces. My original plan was to have a massive battle involving all the constructs fighting the pl...

Skyfell Introduction I started a once-per-month  Dungeons and Dragons  game in my  Skyfell campaign setting . 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 the  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) Michelle - Bronte Whitewinter - male firbolg, Cleric ( Tempest Domain) Jeff - Omagoshno - male rock gnome, Artificer ( Artillerist ) Session 16: Clockworks of Carnage - Unknown Defects Preparation Seriously, there was none. I did read the session 15 summary to refresh my memory (because it had been quite a while since our last session). I also checked my notes to make sure we were still on track and to make sure that in my excitement to finally be pla...

Making Trees As I’ve mentioned many times before on this blog, I use Heroscape map tiles for my Dungeons and Dragons   homebrew campaign, Skyfell . A  large number of locales in Skyfell are in dense jungles and forests. While the Heroscape trees are great, I simply don't have enough of them to really drive home the flavor of many of those settings. Unfortunately, the original Heroscape terrain is now pretty pricey on eBay. So I decided to pull up my big-gnome pants and set into a little bit of do-it-yourself crafting. After a some looking around, I found  trounistro's   30-palm-tree set for a pretty good deal. This set includes a variety of types and sizes. They are also plastic, which appealed to me because I didn't want to fuss too much about storage and handling. The only drawback was that while each tree had posts to anchor it into either a base or a diorama, the set came with no bases. I didn't want to damage any of my Heroscape tiles either. So, I kne...