The Shard is one of the most well known parts of Gloamhold. Visible from Languard’s battlemented walls, the great ruin soars high above Greystone’s ruins huddling far below. Neophyte adventurers—not ready for the terrors lurking in Gloamhold’s outer halls—often dare the Shard’s ruins in search of easy victories and gold.
At the end of last session, we left our band of heroes bravely battling a band of kobolds.
Continue reading Borderland of Adventure #74: Into the Chasm of Death
In the far reaches of Gloamhold’s shadowed depths—beyond even the Sunless Lake and the Twilight City—lies the little-travelled Ebon Road and the Screaming Gate.
In real life, I’m a big proponent of keeping things as simple as possible. Keeping the balance between too much and too little choice in gaming is tricky, but I think worth it. For example, I doubt I could run a multi-year using only the original D&D box set and conversely I wouldn’t even bother trying to run a Pathfinder campaign using any Paizo rules source. My head would explode.
Perhaps this quote above all others encapsulates my view on choice at my table:
Every thing should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
–Albert Einstein
With that in mind, check out these choice- and simplicity-based posts:
At the end of last session, we left our heroes discussing their next course of action. The conversation went on long into the night. Many of the party favoured bribing Vesciwyr with the Grail of Ashenyar to learn for whom the dragon worked. Gorinar flatly refused to accept this course of action, and Krorz was very keen to kill the dragon so her loot could fall into the survivors’ hands.
Continue reading Borderland of Adventure #73: Hunting Vesicwyr