fifth edition – Eric Watson

Tomb of Annihilation Session 18 Recap

A much needed long rest brings our heroes to level 4. They’re soon forced to test their powers when the undead army returns to lay waste to Camp Vengeance.

Tomb of Annihilation Session 17 Recap

Looking for safety the PCs find the real Order of the Gauntlet outpost of Camp Vengeance. But trouble follows them everywhere.

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Starring:
Mannix, level 3 Human Inquisitive Rogue
Khaless, level 3 Half-Drow Assassin Rogue
Gillian, level 3 Triton Bard of Whispers
George, level 3 Tortle Battle Master Fighter
Therin, level 3 Hill Dwarf Druid of the Moon

It had been several sessions and many harrowing encounters since the party last Long Rested. Our campaign rules state that resting overnight in the jungle confers only a Short Rest, turning the entire jungle into one big hex-grid dungeon crawl.

My players were feeling the strain, and hoped to find shelter wherever the Order of the Gauntlet had retreated to from Camp Righteous. They found it upriver in Camp Vengeance, a wooden fortress with 12-ft high walls, sharpened spikes, and a 20-ft deep pit encircling it all. But Camp Vengeance was anything but safe.

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Crafting Annihilation 12/27

Behind-the-scenes DM-only live stream of building and preparing our ongoing Tomb of Annihilation series.

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Tomb of Annihilation Session 16 Recap

The crashed goblin village results in a mass grave of undead as our heroes fight for the amulet to finally activate the shield guardian, Vorn.

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Previously on Tomb of Annihilation

Starring:
Mannix, level 3 Human Inquisitive Rogue
Khaless, level 3 Half-Drow Assassin Rogue
~~Gillian, level 3 Triton Bard of Whispers~~
George, level 3 Tortle Battle Master Fighter
Therin, level 3 Hill Dwarf Druid of the Moon

Yellyark may have been destroyed last week but we we weren’t quite finished with it yet. The escape trap had been triggered, flinging the village hundreds of yards away and killing all the goblins still inside.

Unfortunately one of those goblins was the Queen who wore the control amulet to the Shield Guardian named Vorn. Before setting off after it, the party looted the goblins’ larder tent, the one part of the village not flung off into the air, and found some nice local plants with useful magical effects.

While their NPC allies recuperated, the party followed the tree-torn trail to the site of the crashed village. Continue reading “Tomb of Annihilation Session 16 Recap”

DMs Guild Review – Undermountain: The Lost Chambers

Nearly a dozen mini-dungeons designed to fit into the much larger Dungeon of the Mad Mage – or any underground area.

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Published by: Pyromaniac Press (with Phil Beckwith, Alex Clippinger, Elise Cretel, Ashley May, Luciella Scarlett, Christopher Walz & Micah Watt)

Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage is absolutely massive. Yet it’s also ripe with opportunity for even more dungeon-crawling adventures, thanks to numerous dead ends and off shoots in each level. “Undermountain: The Lost Chambers” provides nearly a dozen such locations from seven different DMs Guild authors.

The mini-dungeons could easily be dropped into any underground or underdark area, with most acting as boss monster lairs or divine shrines. It’s a solid variety, though most of the actual connections to Dungeon of the Mad Mage are tenuous at best.

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DMs Guild Review – The Priest, The Witch, and the Lost Temple

Save an entire town from an undead invasion – and its own prejudices, with this excellent Tier 1 adventure.

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Designed by: David McDonough

Although its title may bring fond memories of Narnia, “The Priest, The Witch, and The Lost Temple” is more akin to The Lost Mine of Phandelver – and that is indeed high praise.

The low level adventure is designed for levels 2-3 and features a town in need of saving, exceptionally detailed NPCs, and several satisfying dungeon crawls.

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Tomb of Annihilation Session 15 Recap

A deactivated Shield Guardian is worshiped by local tribes, and its control amulet lies in the heart of a nearby goblin village.

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After the harrowing battle with a horde of plant-zombies, the party continued following their captured goblin guide Yokka toward his “Iron God.” As they suspected, the thing the goblins were worshiping was a deactivated Shield Guardian – most likely the one Wakanga had told them about. Curiously, it was shaped like a tortle.

The construct was surrounded by three separate tribes: the goblins, the grungs, and some strange plant-fungus creatures the party had never seen before. All three regarded them warily but made no hostile actions. This was sacred ground.

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