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Big Fish D&D: The Time We Found Treasure Island

by on December 9, 2019 at 4:43 pm
Posted In: Blogs, Gaming, Homepage, Jon, Jon's Junk, Keith, Perspicacious Geek

Where, once again, the Rogue has convinced the party to follow a treasure map.

 Everyone laughed at how silly it was that nobody questioned the treasure map in the first one, I felt like it would be doubly on-brand to do it again.

An adventure starring Jaxxo the Lizardfolk Monk, Jim Clocks the Half-Aquatic Elf Rogue, Brubax the Goliath Barbarian and Tidus the Triton Cleric. Absent: L’Eau D’ur the Genasi Warlock.

 I’m in black and Jon (the DM) is in blue.

If this is your first time checking out our little D&D Adventure Blog, you might want to check out this post that explains the setup and format of the game.  You can check out all “Big Fish” content on this nifty landing page. And if you’re enjoying our little GameTale Adventure Blog, please tell your friends on whatever platform you interact with them. If you think Jon and I are at all entertaining please consider checking out the geek-centric podcast we do every two weeks “9ES” right here.

If you have happened to diligently read that prologue post from way back in the past, you will know that each of our characters have, at one point in their backstory, developed a sort of nemesis.

Jon mostly uses these as placeholders for the “villain” of a session, and sometimes ties it all back into the Glacius Rex character who is kind of the (woefully inept) bad guy of the campaign.

Yeah, I had really planned to lean on them more, but in the first season I got so wrapped up figuring out the process and timing for these sessions that I let the nemesis slide.  If I ever run another Big Fish style campaign the nemesis will play a larger role. Missed opportunity there.

Anyhow, my (I play Jim Clocks the Rogue) nemesis is a Kenku. With most of the player character’s relationship with their nemesis, it is the nemesis who is the bad guy. It’s kind of a running joke that with Jim, he is most certainly not the good guy and by all accounts the Kenku really did nothing wrong. Jim just thinks Kenku are weird and creepy and just kind of singled out the poor birdman for cruelty.

Back to Basics

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Big Fish D&D: The Time With the Doppelgangers

by on June 2, 2019 at 2:16 pm
Posted In: Blogs, Homepage

Where our heroes, now capable of Spelljamming, encounter some Doppelgangers.

An adventure starring Jaxxo the Lizardfolk Monk, Jim Clocks the Half-Aquatic Elf Rogue and L’Eau D’ur the Genasi Warlock.

I’m in black and Jon (the DM) is in blue.

If this is your first time checking out our little D&D Adventure Blog, you might want to check out this post that explains the setup and format of the game.  You can check out all “Big Fish” content on this nifty landing page. And if you’re enjoying our little GameTale Adventure Blog, please tell your friends on whatever platform you interact with them. If you think Jon and I are at all entertaining please consider checking out the geek-centric podcast we do every two weeks “9ES” right here.

So the boys find themselves flying along a deep red strand of the phlogiston and upon exiting jamspace they see a system that features a planet orbiting around a bright green sun.

The only real place to go seems to be a planet that seems to feature a big giant tooth protruding up out of lush green planet. Spelljammer, you know?

We park the Space Whale at the port of a city that seems to be built on the upper surface of the tooth. The name of the town? Toothtown.

You’re spoiling us Jon.

Spelljammer is supposed to be weird.  I wanted a 80s cartoon sci-fi Mad Max vibe for some of this.  Was it actually an enormous tooth? Or was it marble cliffs that just really looked like it?

Having nothing better to do and having not seen a city like this in weeks or months, Jaxxo, Jim and L’eau D’ur decide to take in the sights of this strange city.

Welcome to Toothtown

Toothtown seems to be largely dominated by some of the more evil races that are prevalent in Spelljammer. I will let Jon tell you about these species because honestly I don’t have nearly the same familiarity with D&D races as he does.

Ain’t a big deal.  You guys had bumped into mostly good races so far, and I wanted a toothier feel to Toothtown.

As a result, there seems to be quite the lively slave trade here. That’s fun. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Big Fish: The Purple Dragon Knight

by on May 2, 2018 at 7:43 pm
Posted In: Blogs, Homepage, Jon, Keith, Perspicacious Geek

Where our heroes make nice with a Dragon Knight, only to make the opposite of nice later.  This was the story of “The Time Our Genasi Warlock Met a Purple Dragon Knight.”

If this is your first time checking out our little D&D Adventure Blog, you might want to check out this post that explains the setup and format of the game.  You can check out all “Big Fish” content on this nifty landing page.

Eric (Tidus) is back in the driver’s seat and will be our main story man.  He’ll be in black, Jon (our DM) is in blue, and I will be in red. Take it away Eric..

We started the session right on time with Brubax the Goliath barbarian, L’eau Dur the Water Genasi warlock and myself, Tidus the Triton cleric.

Our current Underdark location: a bar in the trade area of Blingdendeep, a Duergar city.  Jon described the architecture, the society and the many weird and interesting humanoids populating the market (not well enough to be memorable :(, apparently).  We were drinking/eating a thick and viscous alcoholic stew made of mushrooms.  Gross! Want to know what else is gross? L’eau Dur suddenly had something caught in his throat and coughed up a baby skull.  Huh. It bloomed into a flower and the flower opened to reveal a tiny fairy with a scroll for him. Warlocks, ammirite? ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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The Initiative Initiative – A Big Fish Supplement

by on February 21, 2018 at 6:05 pm
Posted In: Blogs, Homepage, Jon, Keith

Where we take the initiative on re-thinking Initiative.

Due to some scheduling conflicts and illness the group is stuck in a bit of a month long hiatus between sessions, which sadly means that this week there is no new Adventure Blog for the Big Fish Campaign.

Instead we are going to talk with our DM Jon about Initiative. I’m in black, Jon’s in blue.

The Way It Normally Is

Initiative is one of the most jarring mechanics of almost any roleplaying game. In most of the game, players are either speaking in character, or narrating what they’re character is doing. “I search for traps”, “Hail and well met!”, “I cast Zone of Truth!”, and so on. Most rules are designed to provide mechanics for narration.

This changes when you enter combat. There’s an extra out of game mechanic that kicks in to determine the combat order. Everything stops and the DM asks everyone to roll for their Initiative. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Big Fish – The Time L’Eau Dur Messed Up Bad (Part 2)

by on February 7, 2018 at 6:37 pm
Posted In: Homepage, Jon, Keith, Perspicacious Geek

Where our heroes resolve, to the best of their ability: “The Time that L’Eau Dur Messed Up Real Bad”.

If this is your first time checking out our little D&D Adventure Blog, you might want to check out this post that explains the setup and format of the game. As always, I’m in black and Jon (the Dungeon Master) is in blue. Our last adventure was “The Time that L’Eau Dur Messed Up Real Bad: Part 1”. You can check out all “Big Fish” content on this nifty landing page.

I’m going to try to keep this light and breezy, still working out the kinks of the format to ensure maximum meaty gaming enjoyment for the reader. Story highlights, DM choices and laughs to the front. Point by point recaps can stand outside in the cold waiting for their friends.

And Now, A Recap

The climax of our last sessions had our heroes sailing back from a coastal island towards Baldur’s Gate, having just unwittingly summoned a Gelugon. Said Gelugon is now screaming about wanting to eat L’Eau Dur’s bones and slowly transforming the water between it and us into ice so that it can walk across. The moon is an electric blue and everyone on shore is in a state of panic. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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