Look, I’m really doing a monthly update for my Dungeons and Dragons campaign! ...After two months, but in my defense I have been buying a condo and moving and it’s been very hectic.
I'm doing four campaigns at the moment: one every Friday night, one as DM every Saturday, one every other Sunday (though that one is on hiatus), and one on the other available Sundays.
I've been having so much fun with them and have probably talked the ear off all my D&D friends at this point, so I thought I'd talk here too, haha.
Hollyella Lightouch (Trickery domain cleric of Tymora, gnome, level 4)
Hollyella, who goes by Holly, follows Tymora, goddess of luck. Sure, gnomes actually have their own god of luck, but Holly thought it would be funnier to follow someone outside her race's pantheon. She is a gambler and somewhat of a con artist, though she won't take all of a tourist's money, just most of it. She also may or may not have scammed one of the party members pre-game who doesn't realize he was scammed.
This is a Waterdeep: Dragon Heist campaign, but my party is a disaster and we spent a whole year so far avoiding the main plot and getting embroiled in side quests, though now we’re getting dragged into the actual plot because our DM kidnapped one of three people we actually like.
When last I talked about Holly, we'd managed to steal a magical stone from the cultists that turned out to be a magical talking creepy stone that claimed to be a key that will lead them to catacombs and riches underneath a certain rich couple’s mansion, the same couple that is most definitely involved in cult stuff. Then we went to fight the head cultist lady, only to walk into what would’ve been a trap if the party hadn’t been clever and the assassin lady hadn’t joined the fight on our side. Holly exploded a servant of the rich couple, then the group did NOT burn the place down and instead rescued the inn owner’s family and invited them to spend the night at our magical inn.
( Updates )
Yolov (Order of Scribes wizard, vedalken, level 4)
Yolov is my nerd wizard who loved his spellbook so much that he awakened it as part of the Unearthed Arcana Order of the Scribes wizard subclass. Es, his spelbook, is the jock to his nerd and is constantly disappointed in Yolov's refusal to learn fire spells. Yolov argues that a) Es is made of PAPER and b) fire spells often have collateral damage. Yolov is not charismatic or strong, but he does love books and magic and Es a whole lot.
Yolov is part of an amazing homebrewed campaign in which Yolov has recently graduated from his university having learned a lot of theoretical magic but not so much practical usage for it. He decided to go visit another continent and has been swept up in an adventure with a few other folks investigating the legend of a magical artifact that could be used as a weapon, and which a group that wants to kill the gods seems to have an interest in.
Last session the party got involved in watching out for suspicious people at the capital city’s festival and stopped a bunch of the Sworn Edge people before they could do whatever they had planned during the festival, and captured two of them to turn over to the local High Council.
( Updates ) Lost Mines of Phandelver
My first time as a DM! I've been having so much fun with this game. There are three players, two real life friends I've known for over a decade, and one of those friends' college friends. We'd played together with a different DM last year until real life sort of fell on her head, so I volunteered to run a campaign.
The campaign is currently shifting from The Lost Mines of Phandelver to a mishmash of multiple adventures and campaigns (an unholy fusion of Tyranny of Dragons and a few things from Dragon of Icespire Peak and Sleeping Dragon’s Wake).
Right now they’re in Neverwinter, having learned a little about this dragon cult that seems interested in resurrecting dragons or possibly talking to living ones and also failed to capture Iarno Albeck, a wizard who they’d captured and who then escaped Phandalin with potentially the aid of some Phandalin inhabitants for reasons of their own. They also recently all had some visions involving dragons. So many dragons. So many different chromatic dragons.
Their plan is to talk to their friend, a fighter NPC who’s a member of the Lords’ Alliance and whose awful ex boyfriend they failed to capture, and then try and talk to a bronze dragon nearby and do a side quest for Phandalin’s local priest of Tymora before heading back to Phandalin.
Along the way, the party has adopted multiple NPCs, including a halfling cleric, a human fighter (the Neverwinter one), three wolves, and a half-elf fighter that one of the party members is trying to flirt with. We’ll see if they adopt anyone else….
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