Category: Graveyard of Empires: The Islands of Curabel: General Discussion

Sorry about falling asleep guys. Was apparently way more tired than I realised. Now I hurt from sleeping at my desk half the night. Off to read the summary!

New Player Announcement

A new player, Wellington Thomas, will be joining us next Wednesday (session fifty-nine). Wellington is an experienced D&D player who started out with 1E/2E and returned to those systems in recent years. He will be playing Fitz Ravan, a second-level human magic-user with a black cat familiar (hopefully not a problem for Starchy).

Rule Clarification for Session 58 (5/27/15):

Good news, everyone! My recollection of the level drain rule was incorrect last night. A check of the DMG shows that a character only loses enough experience points to bring them to the mid-point of the lower level. So, instead of one point above the minimum, Axel is at the midpoint of 4th level (prior to the new experience awards).

Player Recruitment, 5/21/15

I have updated the Roll20 page for the campaign so that the player advertisement goes live again. If past experience is any guide, there should be a few players looking to join. Of course, if you know someone from another game that might be interested, please let me know and I will give that person priority.

Originally shared by John Carlson

Having figured out the purpose of the disk-key discovered months ago in the tombs beneath Midmark, the party steps through the looking glass and into a strange — and apparently abandoned — fortress. Are they still beneath the Mikhel Peaks and Xen’Khel? Have they found an undisturbed ancient dwarven settlement? How dangerous is it and why is that corpse trying to grab Axel?

events/ciqnv6m95pgkqfmktv70rvhae6o

Gentlemen, it has been a pleasure, but I’m going to be moving on.

Despite the excellent campaign and storytelling, and great people to play with, I’ve simply never felt like I really connected with my character, or my place in the world.

Sometimes you feel like you are the character, and you’re living that life… sometimes it’s just a sheet of paper and some dice. Sadly, I’ve never really been able to get ‘inside’ Uthruk, and ‘live’ the campaign.

That said, Uthruk’s a pretty solid fighter, and if you guys wanted to keep him on as an NPC he’d be more than happy to stay.

I wish you all the best, and may your adventures continue on for many more years.

Check-in on State of the Party on the Doorstep of Xen’Khel

The party will be without the services of Finkelmur for the next five weeks while Riese gets ready for college and Belroar will be delayed each session due to Jacob’s night court internship. First, congratulations and good luck to both of them — this is good news and there is certainly no problem with either of them remaining in the campaign. Things come up in life — at least these are good things.

I did want to take the pulse of the remainder of the party, though. Does anyone else foresee any summer-time conflicts with our usual game time? Also, should I try to recruit any new players or are you satisfied with the number of PCs right now (i.e., Axel, Thorfus, Chuq, and Uthruk)? I don’t think it’s giving away any secrets to say that you’re about to enter some very dangerous areas, so more may be better; on the other hand, you do have a small army of hirelings, so perhaps it is a non-issue.

Anyway, please let me know your opinions in the comments on this post.