6:30 it is. You just need to wake up the lamb!

Since I had to cancel Tuesday night due to work, is Thursday still open for everyone?

yes... fine with me

yeah that should be fine.

I was searching on line for grid maps and I stumbled on this.

http://dicecollector.com/forums/index.php?topic=16.0

WOW. out of all the places I googled, I had to find a posting of Sac Lamb.

Quote from: imurrx;292911I was searching on line for grid maps and I stumbled on this.

http://dicecollector.com/forums/index.php?topic=16.0

WOW. out of all the places I googled, I had to find a posting of Sac Lamb.

Yeah, that's me. I get around.

Ok, boys...I'll get around to posting last night's game, but first I'll post a summary of our second-to-last session.

The details are fading fast, but somehow, we found our way into a ruined temple. Why were we there? I'll be damned if I remember. Word of advice to the kiddies: always write your campaign journal within less than 24-hours after a game session or the details will be just as forgotten as a hooker's long-lost virginity.

Anyway...

...we're in some ruined temple. At the time, imurrx was doing the mapping as I was literally rewriting my newly-leveled character, Hrothgar, during the session. I had forgotten my graph paper, so our maps looked like arse.

A thought. I retrained my character. Hrothgar is now a single-classed character, as I was shooting for a more simple character concept. He's a 6th-level Battle Sorceror. I could have multi-classed him, or chosen a different class to make him more powerful, but I had a certain concept in mind, and he now comes closer to fitting it. Hrothgar is a warrior-type with various Craft and Knowledge skills. He carries a huge hammer (a maul), and has some skill with artillery magic. I decided to dismiss the kitty familiars, as they were crippling my character's power level, and they didn't act as suitable comic relief, which is what I really wanted them for in the first place. I've been thinking of taking a raven familiar instead, because at least they can talk...

During our journey through the ruined temple, we fought an earth elemental, and a couple dozen orcs, though the session ended before the orc battle concluded. There could be more, but I just don't remember things clearly. I'll discuss the last session tomorrow, when I wake up again...

Quote from: Sacrificial Lamb;292921Yeah, that's me. I get around.

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pffft. You love sluts.

I'm gonna update the campaign journal in a few hours. I'll be going to the gym now, and when I return I'll focus on our most recent session..

Here we go, boys 'n girls...

Again, here is the cast of characters currently in play...

* Reven (Mutt): He's a 6th-level Dragon Shaman, acting as a backup swordsman with the ability to heal, breathe fire, and more. Picture a large, burly human with a bastard sword. He's died at least once.

* Horatio (imurrx): Horatio is a nondescript human focusing on magic item creation, and....I don't know what else. He's....4th-level? 5th? I don't remember now, though I believe he's multiclassed as a Swashbuckler and Artificer. I'd say Horatio hasn't quite found his niche yet.

Horatio has tons of potential, and my personal opinion is that imurrx should retrain this character and go either single-classed Artificer, or multiclass as a Fighter/Artificer, and focus more on ranged artillery combat. He should get himself a few wands, some grenade-like weapons, and maybe a heavy crossbow (with trick arrows/bolts), or even a black powder musket with a bayonet, if the DM will allow it. And then of course, he can create tons and tons of bizarre magic items on the side...

I believe Horatio has died at least twice. Let's hope to prevent that from happening again.

* Kratos (imurrx): This is imurrx's second character, who has become a virtual tank. Kratos is one of the Warforged, an artificial golem-like being, presumably imported from the Eberron D&D campaign setting. We don't really adventure in Eberron, but it's D&D, so we use it.

So anyway....Kratos is a large and burly golem-like dude. I forget what he uses for a weapon. It's either a really large sword or an axe. As far as I know, he's 6th-level, and he's multiclassed as a Fighter/Artificer. Whatever he is, he's a most effective melee combatant who manages to completely lay waste to his enemies. That said, he's had a few close calls with the Grim Reaper, and this makes me realize that, during the game, we need to more efficiently focus on acting as a team. Maybe I'll take some "Repair" spells or something...:hmm:

* Hrothgar (me): This is my character, and he's a 6th-level Battle Sorceror. Picture a large human warrior garbed in a chain vest, wielding an enormous hammer. At one point, I was multiclassing with four different classes for this guy, but I felt that I was spreading him too thin, and wanted to go with a more basic concept, so he is now a single-classed character. He no longer has his cat familiars , and is far more adept at artillery magic. He can sling balls of fire, magic missiles, and bolts of lightning. Due to the Arcane Disciple feat, Hrothgar even has access to Clerical domains, thus he's able to heal and turn undead. Not bad, eh? I'm actually thinking of giving him a wisecracking raven familiar :raven:, which would make better comedy relief than the cats....

=The Scene=

During the last session, we were fighting a horde of bloodthirsty orcish warriors in a large circular stone chamber. Take note that MeatLips (Senor Kramer) doubled the scale of the map in order to avoid a repeat of what happened at the tower. Anyway, we fought these suckers, and there was basically yelling, screaming, bleeding, and overall mayhem involved.

Kratos was decimating his opponents; Reven was fighting off the orcs with his sword and his breath weapon, and Horatio...? Um....Horatio seemed to be straining a bit. I think imurrx hasn't yet figured out how to tactically use Horatio in combat, while Kratos remains a friggin' tank.

One thing I've noticed is that Reven and Hrothgar were able to cooperate pretty effectively in combat. Hrothgar would be slinging bolts of electricity at the orcs, and using the Flaming Sphere spell to cut through the ranks of the axe-wielding orcish thugs. Since Reven is highly-resistant to fire, he'd use the Flaming Sphere as cover against the rampaging orcs that assaulted him. If they got too close, he'd whack 'em, and they'd risk getting burnt. Then he'd breathe fire on them.

Kratos was smacking the crap out of a bunch of orcs, and left a trail of bodies behind him on the floor. I don't remember what happened with Horatio, but I think imurrx was struggling a bit when using him.

Eventually, the orcs were defeated.

At some point, we found a trap door with a pit in the center of the room. Lantern in hand, Reven took point, and descended into the pit. Everyone else went down there as well (Hrothgar taking the rear), and faint sounds were heard....

At the bottom of this pit was a dark corridor stretching about 25 feet. We trudged forward to investigate....

Before us, we hear....cackling. As we exit the corridor into a new chamber, we see before us.....skeletons!

The battle is quickly joined. So we're fighting these skeletons, and I decide to engage them with my hammer. Reven attacks, Kratos launches himself into them, and Horatio attacks as well. What happens next...

...is I'm gonna take a break so that I can get some sleep. The Epic of Kramerland shall be continued...:raven:

http://www.booguild.com/forums/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=3

Ok, I don't know to post the pdf here directly (because I'm computer illiterate ), so I'm posting a pdf directly from the BOO site. All the maps are illustrated by me, but only pages 29 to 39 are maps for the "Kramerland" campaign. Take note that the Kramerland maps are more crudely rendered than the others, as they were illustrated during play. So.....enjoy.

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Now....continued from our last session....

What happens next...

...is the siren song of battle calls out to us, and the fight against the skeletons is on. We clear a path through the skeletons, fighting desperately as they attack us with their axes. After a brief struggle, we mash 'em, and stand over a pile of broken bones. It's then that we more carefully survey our surroundings...

We're in a chamber 40-feet by 50-feet in size. Near the wall opposite the doorway is a sarcophagus, and against one corner of the room is a large globe of shadowy illumination.

The details of what happens next are a bit unclear in my memory, but when we explore the periphery of the shadowy globe, it appears to be a Darkness spell. Someone is taking cheap shots at us from within it, and we see a vague outline of something in the corner of the room where the "shadowy illumination" is coming from.

Horatio tries to counter this darkness with an infusion (Light), but hasn't much luck with that. After much deliberation, and after we keep getting zapped by our mysterious assailant, Horatio takes out his wand of Magic Missile, and starts zapping this mysterious figure hiding in the gloom. Kratos then enters these shadows, and stumbles upon another stone sarcophagus in the corner of the room. At this point, we're getting frustrated, because we know someone's in there, but can't find the source of the spell. I can't launch bolts of lightning, because I'll fry Kratos, nor can Reven use his breath weapon (for the same reason). Finally, I get fed up, and enter the gloom, calling out to Kratos.

Hrothgar: "Kratos, I can barely see a thing. Where are you?"
Kratos: "Over here."

Hrothgar sees a huge, lumbering form in front of something large like a coffin or bed. He bumps into Kratos, and feels the cold stone of the sarcophagus. It is then that I reveal my cunning plan. One of my domains is Artifice, so I deal with the sarcophagus, via my spell, Stone Shape, and transform the sarcophagus into a stone frog! :froggy:

We hear a startled yelp erupt from behind the sarcophagus, as a figure rushes out from behind it.

Betcha didn't see that one comin', did ya, Mister Fancypants DM? :heh:

Senor Kramer (MeatLips) is like, "Whaaat?! Waitaminute, lemme see that spell; you can do that?" :rant:

Well, the darkness follows this mysterious figure as it runs towards the other sarcophagus. Reven is already there, and has jumped into the other sarcophagus. He waits inside of it, weapon ready, and then breathes forth a gout of flame at our mysterious assailant.

Well, a battle ensues, and we finally waste this guy. When the darkness finally subsides, we see an orcish body on ground, that we believe is the guy the old wizard warned us about; someone named Ahkarat. The session stopped there, so here's a list of monsters defeated, and items we acquired.

MONSTERS DEFEATED

* Earth Elemental (1)
* Orcish Warriors (24)
* Skeletons (12)
* Orc Spellcaster (1)

INVENTORY

ITEM............................................................................................VALUE

* Greataxes (24)..........................................................................20 gp each
* Light Crossbows (24).................................................................35 gp each
* Crossbow Bolts (720)...................................................................1 gp each 10 bolts (1gp x 72gp)
* Greataxes (12)...........................................................................20 gp each
* Metal Cylinder (Succubi Prison Spell Component)...........................?

That's about the gist of it. More details are soon to come for our next session....

Quote from: Mutt;293171They cannot see them unless they register due to the forum settings

They better register on those forums then.

Here's another pdf of mine (city maps) that Mutt put up on the BOO site. These are old maps I drew, but maybe they'll give MeatLips some ideas....

http://www.booguild.com/forums/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=2

I want to post the maps here directly, but I don't know how to do it, and I only wanna post individual pages of the pdfs. Ahh.....the joys of being a luddite...

Later on this week, I'll post the maps for our current adventure module..