Ruffians of the Lost Mine – (Friday session 2)

I’m a bit late on writing this, so the details of the session are a bit fuzzy in my mind. However, I’ve now run two sessions of Lost Mine of Phandelver for my experienced Friday-night group. In the first session, they rescued Sildar and dealt with the goblins. This session, they ran into the Redbrand Ruffians. They didn’t like the Ruffians, and the Ruffians didn’t … Continue reading Ruffians of the Lost Mine – (Friday session 2)

The Lost Mine of Phandelver – Session 3

I was joined by seven players for this session of the Starter Set adventure. Djoran, Ben and Brian joined Tait, Jesse, Josh and Josh to make up the group for the adventure. This gave the group a combination of level 1 and 2 characters as they spent the majority of the session further investigating and fighting the Redbrand Ruffians. The last session had ended with … Continue reading The Lost Mine of Phandelver – Session 3

Sneaking through the Lost Mine (Friday session 1)

I’m currently running two groups through Lost Mine of Phandelver, the adventure included in the D&D Starter Set. The first group are people from my FLGS who play D&D Encounters with me every Saturday evening. I’m running it as an Adventurers League adventure, so characters are keeping track of their XP and treasure on the log sheets, using point-buy for creating their characters, and working … Continue reading Sneaking through the Lost Mine (Friday session 1)

The Lost Mine of Phandelver – Session 2

Seven players were at the table for our second session of Lost Mine: Rich (wizard), Josh (fighter), Jesse (thief), Tait (thief), Dave (cleric), Josh (fighter) and Sam (wizard). In their last session, they’d failed to pursue the goblins and instead ended up with a little Redbrand Ruffian trouble in town, after Milo (Tait) the thief had made them believe the ruffians had beat him up … Continue reading The Lost Mine of Phandelver – Session 2

The Lost Mine of Phandelver – Session 1

The new Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set was released to all stores this week. If you look around, you’ll find a lot of reports as to how the adventure in it plays. This is one of them. If you plan to play the adventure, it’s probably a good idea to stop reading now. Because there are going to be lots of SPOILERS ahead for the … Continue reading The Lost Mine of Phandelver – Session 1