DM BEEZULBUBBA'S GAME RECAP SUPER BLOG

    We picked up where we left off from last session. In the middle of the Fountain Chamber within the Cursed Temple of Thaneduhr. We had a few technical issues on the start of the game and SEVERAL players were using their phones for Discord. This creates a fair amount of back ground noise in my experience so you have to listen more acutely.     As The Brotherhood of Expendable Strangers discussed their next course of actions after saving Redrum from Rot Grub they observer Zorbar the Skeletal Creature they found in an unsealed crypt. "Do not mind me, I am just observing" as he then clasps his skeletal hands together and clicks his bony fingertips together. This leads to a long pause from the players, a very long pause of silence.  Gad begins to ask a few questions of it and some are answered, others ignored. Wanting to investigate the Sealed crypts behind him a few players cautiously walk past him while others hesitate, the Retainers are noticeably dist...

    Down to Three players usually means your campaign is dead but I encouraged my Players to recruit Retainers. Combination of Real Life and the particular day of the Week has cost me several players that I started with so I have has dwindled. Been holding back recruiting another organic being to run a toon but may consider it later this week. I Gate-Keep my table from the majority of lunatics running around on the web, so prefer crypt dwelling grognards like myself for my player base. Anyway, back to the recap.    We picked up a day or two after the goriffic grub-hub incident at the Lizard Man lair in the Southern Fens with the Coddiwimplers in Ye' Olde Tavern looking for prospects and information. Alberich Dwarf Locksmith  introduces himself to the Coddiwomple Company while Benn attempts to recruit Yolanda the Fair (8 Reaction) and a cross eyed crossbowman recently fired from a merchant caravan. The crossbowman refuses (4 Reaction). Several Henchman ...

  Ok, so it has been a hot minute since our last session for this campaign. Player availability and all that plus, I was feeling quite Blah last time. One should not run a game if they feel like Crap or are Disinterested it'll be a terrible gaming experience.    We settled up some in between session stuff and The Company of Expendable Strangers went about hiring some staff for Axios Landing , or tried to at least. Gad dumped the goblin slaves he had acquired back on the sandy beach landing where he acquired them which was nearby and set off to make plans for the reclamation of the old Dwarf Village. Hiring Rolls were terrible with allot; and I mean allot, of 6s and 8s rolled repeatedly. I really do need to remake that chart. They were unable to hire a Cooking staff but managed to gain a three Dwarf Heavy Infantry. Gad returned to pick up the goblins where he had left them and noticed the sandy shore had bloodstains and tracks shuffled tracks; these were mentioned when ...

      Well, this may end up coming off as the DM is complaining but its more catharsis. We started with only Three Players this week and in the in between session I had decided not to recruit an additional player and no one has approached me from reading these blogs, tweets or otherwise to see if there were open seats. There are Retainers to be hired and called to your banner and it is a long standing Old School tradition to have Henchman. A player;  Daagun  the Halfling Fighter/Thief , dropped from the game completely and  Octavious ; Human Cleric of the Lord of Coins , could not make it this week. But I figured with their variety in levels it would be fine on the first floor or two of Stone-Hell a suitable challenge. Might even tie up a loose end which would make several of them joyous.     We picked up immediately where we left last of last session which was IN Stone-Hell viewing the Kobolds getting chomped on by a Giant Shrew through a po...

      Got off to a slow start this evening and had a missing player. That stopping in the Dungeon is becoming a regular thing and creates this PC is now an NPC situation at the beginning of the next session. Age old problems during Flu Season. I find this sometimes gets your paving and timing off a tad bit but this evening we were pushing for some exploration of Stone-Hell.     We stopped after the end of a battle at the end of the last session. To facilitate a missing PC I rule a piece of masonry falls from the ceiling after the Orcs fled and strikes  Octavious  rendering him unconscious. There is the required 1 Turn rest after any combat. They opt to fall back as they are wounded and the total number of Orcs is unknown. Having to fall back do the chain lift they spend a few Turns getting everyone up and into the Ghost Beggar Caverns and return to Kendall Keep . While camping at the area they call Bivouac Two they hear noises in the late evening ...

      Was not sure if I should even run this evening as I was first day of decent feeling after four days of illness, influenza, SARs or Covid whatever they are calling it this year to sell alchemy in a syringe. Went ahead anyway as I hate cancelling. Still have a player on Night shift but I knew that the ground game had changed allot and they players would have a quick session or press on rapidly. I got a weird quagmire of sorts honestly.     We started with a trip to Dragon Spire Hold and I rolled random encounters. Some gold was converted and the party is moving around like a small gang of Dwarf as to deter Thieves I guess or maintain a low profile you know, as a mob of 4 to 5 Dwarf in a Human Dominated City. They get directed from  The Bibliotheca  (Large Private Library of Dragon Spire)  Chief Steward Magus Samuell Burlton  towards the residence of  Godfrey Malster   a predominant Wizard within Dragon Spire second only in po...