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Urath Games

Gregory Rushton — Tue, 07 Jan 2003 17:02:21 +0000

I can never remember this url, but a quick google search for “Mordahn” came up with the right site: Urath Gaming Home. This was set up by a talented GM, Mark Greene, whose players are all friends of mine from UMass Lowell

. Since a few months before Peter was born, I haven’t seen any of them. I’ll try to make some time soon… sorry guys ;-(

Onyx Equinox

Gregory Rushton — Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:01:00 +0000

I really like this PBEM game I’ve signed up for. I signed up a couple weeks ago, and the posting is absolutely top quality stuff. Someone said it reads like a fantasy novel, and he was right. I’m hooked. Here is the latest quote (as of this writing, of course). I, of course, play Charla, the rogue/cleric. The poster here is playing a fairly intelligent fighter, something rarely seen anymore.

Yahoo! Groups : 3edndpbem: RE: Turn 55, The Trogs Take A Beating

“Eldrick is impressed with Charla’s combat performance. A Cleric of

Pelor, yes. But the clothes. The sneak attack. Something rogue-

ish about this one. What is here story, her background? But there

will be time for pleasantries later. Hopefully.

Eldrick heads back into the library, and motions Charla and T’Len to

follow him. He closes the wood door behind him, and pushes a

bookcase or two in front of the door. Simultaneously, he instructs

Osha to close the iron door and place the bookshelf across the L-

brackets, to lock the door. The party’s area is now semi-secure,

and they can hold a quick strategy session. Caedras and Alderos

continue to hold the trapped trog in check.

Eldrick monitors the two outside doors, and speaks to the

group. “We have several options. We have to establish our

priorities.” Eldrick believes the top priority should always be to

negate any immediate threat. That has been done, for the moment,

with their victorious battle.

The next priority should be to negate any medium-term threat. He

agrees with Alderos (and in fact has suggested this before) that the

hatch be sealed. (He turns to Charla: “There is a grave hatch on

the other side of this level from which several trogs have

surfaced.”) But the party should not be split up to accomplish

this. This has been tried before, to tragic consequences. The

party must stay together, continuing to mass its firepower. So,

first, we should clean up the loose ends right here. Question the

trapped trog. And determine who is banging on the far door. Is it

one of the monks? Is it Kaelibeth? Or an enemy? Then the party

can return to searching for Kaelibeth, the monks, and ultimately

Fennil and Maur’tsan.

So, short-term goal #1, Eldrick believes, should be to question the

trog. Aldreros and Caedras are doing this now, quite well, in their

respective styles, Eldrick believes. Eldrick adds his own bit of

Draconic to the discussion. “If he doesn’t cooperate, kill him.”

Eldrick isn’t a fan of killing for killing’s sake, but there is no

other good option here. Their lives are at stake. Eldrick knows

that he didn’t even have to add this bit of advice, as Caedras will

no doubt finish the beast whether he talks or not.

Short-term goal #2, Eldrick believes, is to deal with the banging

from the opposite room. “Charla, you’ve been in that room. Who do

you think is in there?” Eldrick wants to find out if she believes

the odd-looking trogs [isn't that redundant?] are still in there.

Eldrick asks T’Len to accompany him to the door, melee weapons

readied. Eldrick first speaks Draconic through the door, doing his

best to imitate the barks of a troglodyte. “Who is in there?” He

will wait for a response. His next sentence will be in common,

asking the same thing.

Eldrick remembers the banging from the upstairs room, the livestock

holding room. If his navigational skills serve him correctly [and

Eldrick has spent two points on the cross-class skill Intuit

Direction, and fancies his nav skills as sharp from his military

training], that room is directly above the room in front of him.

Could it be the same banging? Eldrick’s mind continues to churn.

Charla reported seeing a monk up through the secret passageway,

laying motionless. That should be about where the monk was lying

prone in the same livestock holding room. Perhaps the same monk?

Charla’s report of dripping blood is not a good sign.

If there are trogs in the room, Eldrick will likely be content to

leave them there, trapped. They can be dealt with later. If a

potentially friendly voice comes back through the door, however,

that will likely warrant further attention.

After these two short-term goals are resolved, Eldrick feels the

party should venture down the corridor, secure the grave hatch, then

up the stairs to the livestock room to check on Kraiger or whichever

monk is at the top of the secret passageway. Eldrick recommends a

download otis dvd marching order of T’Len and himself in the front, Alderos and Osha

in the middle, and Caedras and Charla in the rear. Osha should be

positioned between the brawny T’Len and her crush Caedras to reduce

her level of fear. If and when the party does venture down the

corridor, they should move silently, weapons readied (Eldick with

his crossbow), keeping a keen lookout. The ruby that Charla found,

being further down the hallway, indicates that the trog(s) that

found the sword likely went in that direction. Perhaps the jewel

fell out as they retreated with the sword. Or perhaps the steel-

loving beasts discarded it, thinking that it ruined the beauty of

such a handsome specimen of steelwork.

During any idle time, Eldrick will ask Charla to expound on the

firetrap that they triggered earlier. He will also encourage

Alderos to read the parchments from the table, and Osha to aid

Charla in performing a search in the library (especially of the

books) and of the dead trogs’ bodies.

One more thing is on Eldrick’s mind. The fact that Caedras did not

target the trog attacking Alderos but instead targeted the trapped

trog did not escape his notice. Caedras has his own motives, to be

sure, but for the party to survive, no one can be distrusted in

battle. Eldrick does not know if this was done intentionally, or

was merely a tactical mistake [or, Adam, an innocent action]. But

Eldrick feels as though something should be done, however

ineffective on the independant Caedras. As he makes his way toward

the banging, Eldrick brushes up lightly against Caedras. He pauses,

and let’s the glint of his longsword from the torches dance across

the elven sorcerer’s face. “Next time, friend, I trust you’ll make

a better tactical decision.” Eldrick and T’Len continue toward the

door to put his plan into action.

OOC: Mitch, a small logistical clarification. Earlier, Eldrick did

not bring an entire bookcase from the library to block the iron

door. He used the bench just inside the door, on the right. He

used a single shelf from the bookcase to lay across the L-brackets,

securing the door in place.

Still OOC: Ok, I know that was a long post. But we’re at a sort of

branch in the decision tree as to what to do next. You have my

thoughts. Any different/better ideas?”

DnD 12/16/01

Gregory Rushton — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:33:00 +0000

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We left off with an undead attack last episode so the party decided to stay an extra night to heal up. We have 5 days of travel left to get off the glacier. Its starting to snow but its not to bad out. The next few days are uneventful and the party is feeling pretty good. On the third night last watch a Snow Worm pops out of the ground and eats Thracks horse. Everyone wakes up and the fight insues. Fengs monastery fights these creatures so he knows enough not to touch it with his hands. The worm kills Cerebus, Fengs mule. Thrack attacks with his magic axe, Feng uses his heavy crossbow for one shot. This things very tuff it takes a 20 to hit it. Every time you hit the worm you have to make a saving throw or your weapon is destroyed. Feng loses his Orc double axe and his quarter staff to the creatures heat. Mantrias and Anachron don’t have any luck hitting it. Willie casts Cats grace on himself to get a better AC before he tries and attacks. The Worm misses Feng on an attack but its next attack hits little Willie. Willie takes the damage from the bite and is then swallowed taking additional damage. End result is Willie is negative 88 HP. (Lowest in history of our group playing in almost 16 years). Thrack makes a final attack killing the worm but fails his saving throw and is beautiful axe is destroyed. [ editor's note, this was a +2 axe made by the famous Dwarven master weaponsmith Durgeddin (sp?). Poor Thrack, he was so proud of that axe! ]

The Wanderer’s make it to the little monk outpost at the end of the Glacier. We trade in the furs for 1500 gp. We head out to the port city to find transport south. (I can’t remember the city’s name but it is predominatly evil). On the way to the city we are attacked by highwaymen: 6 men 3 fighters 3 rogues and a wizard. Anachron webs three of the men Thrack kills one. Feng kills one, Tally is blinded by the wizard and Mantrias kills one. Their wizard casts invisibility on himself and tries to run away. Poor silly bastard, the group points out to Feng to follow the foot prints in the snow and then attack. Feng kills the wizard. theres a trail that the wizard was following but the party has to make it to Moog’s first before taking on new threats, so we set out on the road again. (we ended up skipping an adventure Ed had for us because we are already a month late getting to Moogs / we were sopoosed to follow the trail the wizard was on … ooopss) At the city gates Feng Tally and Thrack pay 100gp to get in but Mantrias and Anachron refuse to pay and ride down the road to try another gate to get into the city [ editor's note gain: my character, Mantrias is most likely being played by the player who owns Anachron. He happens to be very chea... um, I mean, ...concerned about money, so it's no surprise that my character won't pay the 100g ]

. While in the city Feng and Thrack replace there lost weapons. Tally secures transport with Admiral Fred for the group. Eventually Mantrias and Anachron make it into the city by only paying 50 gp apiece. the party meets up and stays out of trouble long enough to get an board the ship and set sail. If we make it to land we plan to get supplies and remount the party. I believe Mantrias will be taking Willies Light war horse. (War horse has 25HP 13AC and a speed of 60)

Thats all for now…

House WoT Rules

Gregory Rushton — Fri, 07 Dec 2001 18:23:00 +0000

Here are some sample house rules

for a WoT game that I’m thinking about.

DnD 09/04/01

Gregory Rushton — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:57:00 +0000

And this goes back to before the world changed… circa BWT…

Hi Gregg, just too fill you in on alittle of what happened. Off of the hall

where we fought the Grey Dwarfs, remember the 4 doors?. One was the forge

area another was a kitchen that had an animated table. The two to the north

had undead.

One of the doors had a Ghost which sucked 1 point of Wisdom From (You)

Mantrias, Thrack and Anachron. This is permanent not like some of the

strength draining we’ve incountered. Will need to get a full restoration

spell for you guys in order to bring those wisdom points back. Off of that

room we found a library. In the library was a beautiful woman claming to be

held captive by a Wizard. The Great Mel Garga doesn’t believe this and try’s

to disbelieve the room as an illusion etc. He fails his roll. Feng tells her

she’s free to go and as a parting gift (she won initiative ) she kisses the

Great Garga and he looses a level. Then she teleports away. She = Succubus

who was trapped in the room by a wizard long ago. She heard the fight

outside the room with the Ghost and changed into a beautiful woman and

tricked the party into releasing her.

For the amount of stuff we found, we ended up on the loosing end of that

nights adventures. Which should mean theres some good stuff somewhere nearby

( I hope ).

DnD from 11/05/01

Gregory Rushton — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:55:00 +0000

Here is another one from Dan. I love these…

I think the last time you were there we had just helped some lady bring her

bloodstones to market. We got invited to the local lords home for a party.

While there one of his daughters is kidnapped. Feng + Anachron chase after

them as the others get equipment. We lose them after they shoot a lighting

bolt and there Monk hits Feng a couple of times Feng has to give up the

chase. The Mighty Moog who once Killed Elmenster “ya right” gives the party

a gem and tells them in a time of need throw it. He also casts a spell on

Feng so he can track the sent of the girl. We travel almost all night. Come

to a bridge where the Monk Feng had fought before and three others where

waiting with 6 skeletons. We win the fight and keep on of the guys alive I

think he was a third level Sorcerer. We promises not to kill him if he helps

us find the girl. He says theres an abandoned keep about half days ride from

here where the girl will be held. We tie him up and bring him along. We

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travel some more then make camp. In the morning. We find the keep. We sneak

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into one tower a little fighting happens. Feng chases after 3 of the thieves

and catches up to them he takes out 6th level thief but eventually is taken

out by the other two. Feng stops bleeding at -7 when the other show up. The

6th level thief and his buddies got away. We didn’t find the girl in the

keep but in the stables all there horses were killed and there was a hole in

the ground where a blood trail lead. We went down and found some dead Torgs

and some humans and an elf. After a few little fights of our own we come

into a big chamber. The set up is a we are on 10 foot landing then there is

a little 15 foot rope bridge in the middle theres 40 troglodytes and 5 evil

adventures fighting. On the other side of the fight is another 15 foot rope

bridge and another slightly bigger landing. Over there is the kidnapped girl

on an altar with 3 trog clerics getting ready to sacrifice her to there god.

Feng wins initiative, he is able to run across the first bridge and get half

way around the huge fight with the trogs. Some of the trogs see the party

and start crossing the bridge. Thrack and Mantrias take up the left and

right side of the bridge so no trog is going to be able to cross but the

party can’t cross either. Tally hits the cleric with the sacrifice knife in

his hand with a magic missile. Woeful Willie a Bard that Feng and Thrack

hired to log there adventures and sing about there glory also starts

attacking the 3 clerics across the way with a cross bow. Feng Thrack and

Mantrias are taking a little damage because there the only ones that are in

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a position to get hit. Feng eventually make it to the other bridge. At this

time the Wizard in the evil party fighting the trogs sees the party on the

other side of the bridge and sends two lighting blots at the party. Thrack

has 3 hp Mantrias is down Willie is down Tally has 5hp Anachron in the low

teens for hp. Tally throws the gem Moog gave the party. A giant wall of fire

appears and takes out some of the trogs. The last of the healing is given

out which brings Mantrias and Willie back up to low teens for hp. On the

other side of the fire wall Feng eventually take out the 3 clerics at the

same time Moog gates in. in the middle where the big fight was happening the

evil party only had about 4 trogs left to kill. Moog offers to gate Feng and

the girl out and Feng was like OK. Now this is were some roll playing on

your part is going to have to come into play. Geof playing your character

said we had to retreat. You have no idea whats happening on the other side

of the fire wall. The party is hurt real bad the evil party you saw fighting

was winning against 40 trogs and Feng and the girl are considered dead. You

leave to go back to town. Moog has gated Feng and the girl to his place

about 1000 miles away. The next day Moog sends Feng back (without the girl

she didn’t want to go home) Feng promised to eventually come back and help

Moog with a few things for helping saving the girl. Both the girl and Moog

give Feng a note for her father the local lord). The rest of the party gets

back to town Mantrias and Tally bring the 3rd level Sorcerer to the Lord and

say he did help in attempting to rescue her and asked for a leanent sentence

the Lord had the Sorcerer executed on the spot. The party finds out Feng is

alive and the Lord wants his daughter brought back to him. thats were we

are. I’m going to attach a little map and the XP sheet. By the way you went

up in level but I need to know which one Cleric or Fighter.

Future adventures looks like we are on the road heading south to get the

girl and possible help Moog out with a few little side adventures. Greg I

apologize for my righting I’m not a very good story teller. Hope to see you

on the Saturday the 17th for our next adventure.

DnD session

Gregory Rushton — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:20:00 +0000

I really like Dan’s descriptions of our periodic DnD sessions. Here is the latest…

We left the Monastery to cross the mountains, on the 3rd or 4th day of our

trip we ran into a man running form some winter wolfs (8 feet long with a

freezing breath weapon) screaming they had just attacked his caravan. We

kill the two wolfs and turn to the guy the wolfs were chasing. The guy then

turns into the Ogre Magi that we had fought at the castle. We kill him. The

party is pretty banged up and Willie was negative. We skin the wolfs, heal

up and head out again. About a mile or two down the path we see a wagon and

some dead torn apart people. Three more winter wolfs attack this time Willie

goes to negative 9. We heal up and make camp. I don’t know what the next

monster that attacked is called. It has the body of a bird and a head of a

rain deer with horns. Three of those attacked the party we killed two. the

third carried off Anachron. Feng tried to follow but eventually had to give

up because the terrain slowed him down to a move of 25. We started to pack

up camp so at dawn we could try and find Anachron. After the beasty brought

Anachron to his nest. Anachron was able to change into a bird and fly away.

As an eagle he could fly 3 times faster than the monster and eventually lost

it. He makes it back to camp as we are ready to head out. We start traveling

again and come across 2 whites and 10 ghouls. Mantrias roles miserable on

his turn check and gets minus 3 levels. You rolled so low the ghouls ignored

you. At which point one hits you and paralyses you. Eventually we beat the

nasties without loosing a level. The party has gotten the shit kicked out of

it and we are at the point of no return 5 days in and its a 10 day trip.

When we get to the other side we have 5 winter wolf skins and two of the

other beasties pelts to sell.

I’m thinking a frost giant or two could be in our future or maybe one of the

snow worms. Feng and Willie have gone up in level. Feng’s 7th level and

Willie’s 4th level, the rest of the group needs about 1650XP before going

up.

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Wheel of Time

Gregory Rushton — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 18:25:00 +0000

OK, so when I found out about the new game from Wizard’s of the Coast, Wheel of Time, I had to have it. So, I go ahead and buy it, it comes in, I take it with me to CT

so I can read it during some down-time over the weekend. Sure enough, one week goes by and they’re selling an autographed version at the same price! I would be mad if I didn’t love the book. Maybe I’ll order another one, one to have as a collectible…

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