Louis's Campaign Update

Had a good game of D&D over at Louis's last night even though I had ridiculously bad luck with the dice rolling. It was my first attempt at running two characters at once, because as well as my paladin, Taldor, I had Rob's drow dual-wielding-scimitar ranger Illidar to control as well. I think it's going to be tricky to run 4th edition characters that you're unfamiliar with the ins and outs of their powers.

For the adventure itself, we descended into a dwarven tomb in search of a long lost set of armour. Fighting the usual skeletons and other guardians of the tomb we were successful and found the armour for the dwarven House Sorenson. I had missed a couple of sessions so not too sure how we started to work for them guys. At the moment we're in the North of Faerûn, shuttling between Luskan, Neverwinter, Waterdeep and Silverymoon. Soon I'd like us to pick a base of operations, maybe a small town or village and resettle the wilderness.

The Rotting Ruin of Galain at Yeovil Games

Louis ran a Living Forgotten Realms adventure this morning for Henry, Arthur, Antonié and me. To avoid spoilers, I'll only say that The Rotting Ruin of Galain is an encounter heavy exploration adventure which appealed to the more combat-eager of our party though it did need to difficulties in running the game to time.

Notable actions:
Thalgrim (my dwarven fighter) deciding to leap downstairs rather than take the ladder down only to roll a 1 on his acrobatics check. To add insult to the eight hit points of injury, the fight he was eager to join in was over before he had a chance to get up.

Curse of the Crimson Throne Episode 8

Episode 8 Recap:

• The early part of the session was the planning of the rescue of Trinia Sabor from her scheduled execution.
• Artimus arranged the use of a "safe house" by a sewage outflow from the Spider King, he did pledge a favour in return.
• Shiever set up a fireworks display to distract the crowd and guards.
• Jonathan had the task of opening a manhole for Balasar to escape with Trinia into the sewers.
• Meanwhile Balasar was mingling in the VIP grandstand, meeting up with Commandant Marcus Endrin of the Sable Company and got himself an chance to join up with them.
• The Queen gave a moving speech on how the assassin's death would lead to a new start for Korvosa but then a small figure appeared on an inn's roof overlooking Domina Square. Gimble, for it was he fired a grapple down into the platform and slid down to the square dressed in a Blackjack outfit.
• None of the party noticed the Executioner (the "real" Blackjack) knocking out the guards and untying Trinia. He then gave a retort denouncing the Queen and using some kind of magic to teleport him back to the inn
• Blackjack and Gimble took Jonathan and Balasar's planned escape route and escaped the Castle Guard.

Aftermath of the Rescue

• Public reaction is mixed, most people do support the Queen and believe that Trinia was the assassin, but Blackjack's always been a hero of Korvosa so he wouldn't rescue an assassin if she wasn't innocent.
• The Queen is reportedly in rage at the ineptitude of her Castle Guard. Two days later, she officially dissolves the Castle Guard, firing some of the Guard, transferring the rest to the Korvosan Guard and setting up a new Royal Guard under the command of General Merrin.
• Blackjack left Trinia in the care of Vencarlo and Vencarlo asked the party to escort Trinia to a friend of his in Harse.
• The party skirted a small swamp to get to Harse, and were attacked by a very young, but still dangerous Black Dragon. They managed to defeat the dragon and keep Trinia safe.

Experience Totals

• Artimus 3,505
• Shiever 3,255
• Balasar 3,230
• Hendel 2,422 (now level 3)
• Jonathan 1,653