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[IN WHICH OUR COMPANY SLAY THE GIANT RATS] I ran this session analog in the woods, so my note-taking was considerably less detailed then it would be otherwise. Without further ado: The Party Cinnamon. Fighter. Platemail and shield, flail. Powder/Pollen . Cribswap (Lunar/Solar); chainmail, sword and shield or light crossbow. Tomelo the Fierce (Dwarf) and Diino (Cleric), expert rust monster killers, armed with a flint spear and wooden cudgel respectively.  Kai.  A dumb hunky Fighter with expensive taste. Chainmail, shortbow, spear. Recent Additions Jalen Arrowdart.  A mage, raised amongst a clan of archers. Dexterous, though forbidden by her class from using a bow. The Delve  Powder is in her lunar aspect, she prepared  Hold Portal . Jalen prepared  Protection from Evil . The party return to the dungeon, briefly exploring before they are ambushed once again by the giant rats, encountered during the previous session [ I had added them to my random encounter...

[IN WHICH OUR COMPANY DISCOVER THE SECOND LEVEL, AND ORLYN TORCHBEARER DIES IN THE DARKNESS] We played Vampire Queen yesterday, only like 150 days after I actually ran the last session. Felt really good to be back. I've officially broken this blog's weird curse of never having more then 4 session logs for one campaign. We also found some of the dungeon's cats! The whimsy of their presence here is honestly one of the things that endeared me to  Vampire Queen  as something I might want to run, so I was delighted to have that come up. Without further ago: The Party Cinnamon. Fighter. Platemail and shield, flail. Powder/Pollen . Cribswap (Lunar/Solar); chainmail, sword and shield or light crossbow. Tomelo the Fierce (Dwarf) and Diino (Cleric), expert rust monster killers, armed with a flint spear and wooden cudgel respectively. Recent Additions Kai.  A dumb hunky Fighter with expensive taste. Chainmail, shortbow, spear. Orlyn Torchlighter.  A Fighter, spurred on by h...

 [IN WHICH OUR COMPANY TRADE BLOOD FOR GEMS] I actually ran this session on January 11th but life has been pretty much non-stop between then and now. I still wanted to post this for posterity. I really liked running this game and might pick it up now that I have more spare time again. Without further ago: The Party Giblet.  A feathery halfling; leather armour, shortbow and dagger. Cinnamon. Fighter; chainmail and shield, flail. Powder/Pollen . Cribswap (Lunar/Solar); chainmail, sword and shield or light crossbow. Tomelo the Fierce (Dwarf) and Diino (Cleric), expert rust monster killers, armed with a flint spear and wooden cudgel respectively. The Delve  Powder is in her lunar aspect, she prepared  Hold Portal .  The party return to where they fought the rust monster, with Powder uncovering another secret door there. The group listen at the door, hear nothing, attempt to force it and fail. Opening the door snaps a wire, triggering a crossbow and setting off an...

[IN WHICH OUR COMPANY SLAY A RUST MONSTER AND DO BATTLE WITH THE MUPPET-THINGS IN THE WALLS] We return to the Palace of the Vampire Queen: alice's rust monster The Party Giblet.  A feathery halfling; leather armour, shortbow and dagger. Cinnamon. Fighter; chainmail and shield, flail. Powder/Pollen . Cribswap (Lunar/Solar); chainmail, sword and shield or light crossbow. Recent Additions Jeordi-of-the-Orange.  Fighter 3. Rescued from the dungeon during Session 1 . Tomelo the Fierce (Dwarf) and Diino (Cleric), allegedly experienced in killing rust monsters, armed with a flint spear and wooden cudgel respectively. The Delve  Powder is in her lunar aspect, she prepared  Hold Portal .  The party return to the dungeon, having hired on Tomelo and Diino, and accompanied by Jeordi, repaying a favor. The party make for the network of secret rooms where the rust monster had previously been encountered. Tomelo and Diino strip their armour, and direct Cinnamon to break ...

[IN WHICH THE DWARF LEYOL IS SLAIN BY A GELATINOUS CUBE]   Got to run more Palace of the Vampire Queen, with a slightly shorter session this weekend. I've been loving playing one-on-one, its been a really great change of pace! While Vampire Queen  (1976) was written post Greyhawk (1975), and expects its use, we have been playing with flat od&d, only converting stats backwards as needed. This also means we are using od&d's XP for monsters slain, which is far more generous then in Greyhawk. I think this has been working well, since treasures on the first floor are rather sparse. 

[IN WHICH OUR COMPANY MAKE THEIR FIRST FORAY INTO THE PALACE] I got to run  Palace of the Vampire Queen (1976) for a dear friend today! I think it went extremely well overall, and its fun to hopefully have a game going which requires significantly less scheduling to make happen. She played multiple characters, mostly a mechanical conceit to make the dungeon work, but I loved to see the life she gave these characters (each written on a space the size of a cue card).