I’m upholding my promise to novelize this game. It’s too good not to. And I owe all of that to the players. So, before I begin, let me extend a hearty thanks to James, Taylor, John, JJ, and Savannah for giving me simultaneously the easiest and most difficult DM job I’ve ever had. For those
Brace yourselves. I’ve got quite a bit to say, and most of it is rambling and smacks of “back in my day, we didn’t have feelings!” Also: end-notes. When you see this symbol (*), scroll to the bottom for some addendum that is neither funny nor pertinent. So it’s been a hot minute. And I only
Now, we fast-forward sixteen years in the future. Thom has grown up and has reached the age of manhood in Goliath tradition. Now he must go on a spiritual quest to appease the Goliath ancients and his tribe father, Thomtham. However, a few hundred miles south of Thom’s tribe, seven adventure-seekers gather in a tavern,
The following contains the concluding part to chapter three, the penultimate chapter in the Prelude. Following the next chapter, the regular narrative line of the story begins, chronicling many more regular characters (my friends’ PCs) and the events surrounding them during actual gameplay. Thomtham has just roared at his old friend, and Pawluk retracts his
The ill omens expressed in the previous chapter find their origin sixteen years earlier in the northern goliath tribes of the De Marco Barony. The next chapter of the RPG narrative details the birth and arrival of young Thom, a central figure of the story (played by pixelatedgeek writer Justin in the Sunday night campaigns).
Thanks for tuning back in, faithful readers and intrepid adventurers. Now that PAX East 2011 is over, the articles are mostly published, and all the geek dust has settled (momentarily, of course), I return to the regularly scheduled programming of the two-year D&D campaign. Yulin and Tyghe just established the birth of the Baron’s daughter
The narrative continues. So far, both Josias Tyghe and Harlous Yulin — old friends and equally zealous practitioners of the arcane and divine powers respectively — have entered into a friendly discourse, one long overdue. However, they have a much more pressing concern to discuss: the future and how they are each involved. Any prediction
Thanks for coming back to Dr. DM and helping me relive the campaign! For the remainder of the chapters, I have divided them into separate parts (as an entire chapter in one post would be ridiculously long). Today, I present Part I of Chapter 2 entitled, “Things to Come.” It introduces two of my favorite
This summer marks a big, two-year anniversary for me and about 22 of my closest friends. June will mark the end of a major Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition campaign that I have been writing and working on for nearly three years. At current count, I have DM’d over 25 player-characters and several dozen NPCs