Lantern Noir Presents

  Preamble This session was one that had some very high stress planning.  I know that the party has to get to Point C to continue "the story", and it's non negotiable because not only is it part of "the story" but one of our KickStarter Backers backed at a very high level to be able to design the "major NPC" at Point C.  So not getting the party to Point C is Not An Option much like Gene Kranz made the statement "Failure is not an option" while coordinating the rescue of the Apollo 13 astronauts. So with that said, I set out to right some wrongs and put the party on a good path after last weeks well and truly horrific clock cleaning. I Think Your Intestines are Over There So the adventure started off with some serious role play as the party tried to piece together themselves, literally and figuratively.  While we had some mechanics conversations about spells and healing and the like, we also had some amazing interplay between the characters a...

  Preamble It's incredibly hard not to start this log thinking or talking about the tragedy in Oxford Michigan this past week.  I talked about it at the top of the stream and I feel very strongly about the issue of guns in our school.  While I recognize that people come to see Dungeons and Dragons and not Politics and Policy, I also feel like not saying something would have been denying viewers a glimpse into the real me. Overall I think the session was good but offered a pair of challenges I'm working through that I'll talk about below. Standing their ground The battle in the 7-Eleven kicked off in high gear and we got to see what the party could do when the dice favored them and they took the intiative.  As a single combatant, the ogre nearly failed to prove a challenge.  That is until some dice shifted the game, and their little 2nd level selves were in serious danger.  For those playing at home I did very little interesting on the statblock for the ogre...