I was going to begin this recount with the surprising and hopeful note – that I forgot to mention last time – that, by surviving last week’s session, Jack became my longest-lived character since I started to recount my D&D adventures (ten sessions alive) . I would have ended that recount, as, indeed, I ‘wittily’ […]
Tag: Ghosts of Saltmarsh
We began the session with our preparations for my solo scouting missions. These were brief. They mostly involved me handing most of my possessions to Cassius, just in case I didn’t make it back, before he turned me invisible. Then I went a-swimming. However, overall, my scouting went much better than I was anticipating. Despite […]
We began the session by clearing the final room of last week’s dungeon, which almost turned tragic when a crystal minotaur statue came to life and bludgeoned me to unconsciousness. Twice. Luckily, my allies kept me alive, and we finally cleared the dungeon. With the island now safe, we returned to Saltmarsh, our priest friend […]
Upon leaving the beach, we made our way to the ruins of an abbey. It was the only structure on the island, but had been razed when it was attacked. However, upon reaching it we discovered a staircase leading down to a mostly unharmed lower level. Assuming this was where we needed to go to […]
Finally. We made it back to Saltmarsh. Not without effort, and not without tragedy, but we’re finally back. Let’s jump straight into how we did it. We woke up in a series of cages, each of us separate, hanging suspended high over clouds. In the middle of the ring of cages, two larger ones sat […]
So we began our session by picking up where we left off, with me unconscious. I actually was awake, with my consciousness in a different realm, or dreaming, or something, but whichever the case may be, I met Thanatos, another Greek god/death entity. He seemed a bit strange, but otherwise, not too bad. We had […]
And, in which we got totally played. And also gods. Bit of a doozy, this week. In fact, since I started playing D&D, I’ve never had a session that felt quite as D&D. If that makes sense. We began by finishing off the combat that was cut off last week, which went pretty well. We […]
So this was an… interesting session. To put it this way, between constantly having to make saving throws to keep from falling into despair or apathy, to keep from being poisoned by the pervasive landscape, or to keep from getting killed by giant bird creatures, our trek thus far through Hades has really felt like […]
Well, Hades, but whatever. Turns out that’s the grey place we somehow were transported to. Not a nice place either, as it turns out. We learned this shortly after we began our session, when, while sailing our way along the River Styx, we met a creepy subhuman trader who told us where we were and […]
Interesting one today. Some fire, some fighting, and wait until you see the climax. And then the ending – woof. Fair warning, though, if you are playing or are planning to play through Ghosts of Saltmarsh, there’s a spoiler in this one for what I would call a pretty awesome surprise during an encounter. Consider […]