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Author Archives: Josiah
A Picnic and Nap
As the shadow disappeared above Garuuk’s body Kosef dropped to his knees, his face in his hands, trembling. He gripped the blade of his knife until blood dripped from his hand onto the ground. Loru mindlessly stabbed his dagger into … Continue reading
Customizing D&D 5e Leveling
TL;DR Let’s try something. Leveling up is an abstraction from the story. It breaks the fiction and limits character’s options by forcing them into predefined templates. Instead of leveling up with XP all advancement is through in game actions such … Continue reading
The Island
After much discussion the party decided to go with Loru and Garfin to investigate their family’s killer. Garin picked up some supplies while the party discussed how to get Rakham’s stolen pack back. Garfin promised he would help retrieve the … Continue reading
A Tordan Night
After meeting Adda at the temple of Nian the party returned to the friendly confined of the Helping Hand for food and drinks. Having a couple of drinks and a hearty meal the group decided to go investigate the Well … Continue reading
It’s better to be wanted than had
Seeing The Lord’s Watch coming out of The Helping Hand Kosef tried to turn Loru before he was noticed, but Loru, not aware of what was happening, resisted. However his disguise seemed to work as and he and Kosef quickly … Continue reading
A walk to the Temple
Adda and Talia left the Underfarms carrying an unconscious Kosef. After Talia failed in her attempt to persuade a donkey to help them, the smaller tiefling managed to acquire information on the location of the Temple of Nian, a place … Continue reading
The chance meeting of a strange group
Few tales begin without noble knights and highborn princesses. Legends need powerful heroes and dragons to be slain. Adventures, however, can start with but a little bit of ale… Theirs started in an ancient city of Tordan. It was in … Continue reading
We return to the Stonehill Inn around midday and immediately find Gundren. He asks if we have any new information about his brothers and we admit that we haven’t. We decide that the Wave Echo Cave is the most likely … Continue reading
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The Orcs in Wyvern Tor
The group reconvenes and discusses at great length how to best handle the orcs. As this goes on, Elada hears general conversation coming from the cave, one voice louder and deeper than the rest, speaking with a heavy accent. There … Continue reading
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House rules
The most complete list of house rules is here: Tordan House Rules Here are some of the house rules I normally use in my games with some additions for my newest one. I am going to try to explain them … Continue reading