Last week, our Dead in Thay campaign reached a new threshold: three tables and DMs! Josh, one of our players from Day 1, stepped up as DM and did a great job! Josh’s table went into the Master’s Domain, which is an excellent place to muck around, poking at very dangerous intelligent creatures. Mike’s table […]
Dead in Thay: Week 5
After the party had rested and leveled up to 7th level, they hit the Predator Pools sector, first encountering a pair of sea trolls (scrags) which a well-timed fireball and a lot of punching took care of. They spent about 10 minutes, carefully disguising themselves as a Red Wizard/Dread Warrior patrol with some prisoners (the gnome and halfling). Their […]
Dead in Thay: Session 4
We had our first genuine player character death last night at Dead in Thay, and I would have been disappointed if it didn’t happen. This week was “Room 10.” In the Dead in Thay megadungeon, Room 10 should be known as a killer. The party is 6th level, and they open a door and there’s a lich and […]
Dead in Thay – Sessions 2 and 3
I forgot to write up the session from last week, and this week’s adds a significant combat, so it’s a good time to do so. This week brought some lapses into murderhobo’ing, but it was overall a good session and my table did all right.
D&D Encounters, Session Two
Technically, Wednesday’s game was the second session of Encounters, since we ran Launch Day on Saturday. We had a good group of players, including about 5 new folks, though most of the newbies had played D&D or D&D Next before. My table had a cleric, a barbarian, a rogue, a druid, and a monk. They started […]