Games, Crafts, and Thoughts from Mortaine

This is still part of the “Grinding Ice” campaign, the one with Hrothgar and the unconscious Ice King, right? I mentioned that my character, Nayala, had kind of an identity problem, right? She was a shapeshifter who had originally thought she was an eladrin. (For the record: I like secret identities. I’m a superhero.) Anyway, […]

So, there we are, a group of rag-tag adventurers who were supposed to be murderhobos in a frozen world, but who somehow* ended up wanting to overthrow the deathless Ice King and bring back the sun. I was a teleporting warlock with an identity problem. Vor-Kai was a water-based warlord. Hrothgar, our mighty barbarian-ranger, had […]

I’m not sure “proud” is the right word for it, but the session in which my character Gwenn shot and killed her best friend Firiel  was one of my favorite gaming moments and sessions of the past year, maybe 2. It had everything I love in role-playing stories: betrayal, a terrible choice, an accidental murder, […]

This is a really tough one to answer! There are a lot of really great sessions I’ve had in the past year, but two are complete standouts. Fortunately, I can use one of them for tomorrow’s question, so I’ll link to the other one today. In November of 2015, I went to Metatopia, which is […]