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)
In just a couple of days, our players in Ballarat are going to begin on the Tyranny of Dragons campaign through the D&D Encounters program. It’s going to be a fascinating journey, made more so by the fact that most of the players are likely to continue past Encounters as we continue running through to 15th level. This could be a journey of about a … Continue reading Tyranny of Dragons
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
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I’ve found the rules for Stealth in the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons rather hard to follow. It doesn’t help that I haven’t seen the Player’s Handbook yet, but it seems that it basically just is the rules from the Basic D&D game, so there is little further clarity there. I rather hope Stealth gets a section in the Dungeon Master’s Guide! It doesn’t … Continue reading Being Stealthy in Dungeons & Dragons 5E
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)
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
We’re moving towards the release of the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons as well as the Organised Play offerings supporting the game. I couldn’t be more excited about D&D, but there are many aspects of what’s going on with Organised Play – otherwise known as the D&D Adventurer’s League – that concern me greatly. The objective of Organised Play is, ultimately, to build the … Continue reading The Future of D&D Encounters and the Adventurer’s League
One of the suggestions in the new D&D Starter Set is that you work out a Marching Order for your party. This is a pretty simple concept – it’s the formation that you use when moving around – that has seen some development through the history of D&D. In the early years of the game, adventuring parties were often much bigger than they are now. … Continue reading D&D Concepts: Marching Order
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
