Session Summaries

The ancient dragon Hyperion is found captive in a magic shell powered by flickering rubies and guarded by fifteen foot tall fire creatures imprisoned behind ancient runes. And Cappen is there also due to their deal. What happens? The party attacks everything. At the same time.

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The party arrives in the final guard room in the tunnel complex. Fire weapons on turrets, a dozen bad guys, a big altar, and a giant door. And Corliss strikes a bargain with a Fey creature.

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The party makes their way into what might be the lair of the dragon Hyperion. They run at some foes. And run. And run. And run for four hours.

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The party is called in to solve a murder mystery in an elven village for the Ambassador Atha. An old adversary appears with a horrible new adversary in tow.

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For Christmas, Percy shows up mounted on a two-headed dragon. A spell effect causes a hallucinatory dream sequence. A battle royale commences amidst Castle Rend as the party members battle for supremacy!

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A sacrifice is required to become a Wind Walker. The Dragon Brechtohla is the Chaperone for the Aspirant of Air, Hatori Bongo. And, he’s Ser Shadow’s dad!

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The village home of Ser Shadow is besieged by Polonians. The Djinn offers a solution: activate the two massive thunderbird statues by adding a real thunderbird feather to each. Two unexpected partners help Ser Shadow and Yornan find these feathers and easily remove the Polonian threat. Oh, except that Ser Shadow dies.

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The party crosses a bridge that no longer spans a stream. Confused? The crocodiles that live there certainly were and they got to eat new kinds of people. In the Temple Forge, the party makes a decision that they might regret, and agrees to let both Hurodash and Percy host the remnants of Dwarven gods.

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In a showdown that would put Gladiator to shame, the party kills a Tyrannosaurus Rex on the sands of an ancient coliseum. From the royal box above, a Polonian sorcerer gives the thumbs down and gets killed for his insolence. An unveiled Percy is to blame, but he escapes.

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The party literally climbs the walls as they face the legion of skeletons pouring forth into the Temple of Papazotl. Voltron Megaskeleton!

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Charging Stegosauri. Dive bombing pterodactyls. Undisturbed froghemoths. And now we know that a Mage Hand can carry four pounds of mud in a shield
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Part Jurassic Park, part Raiders of the Lost Ark. The party finds a decimated Polonian expedition hiding in the remnants of an ancient city filled with temples to unknown gods. . . .

A fun holiday adventure. The party swaps stories about their past, finds a bunch of gifts in a safe, gets the opportunity to take a nice trip to an exotic location, and kills Santa Claus. . . .

In the employ of Gell, the party takes a trip into the bowels of a Polonian research facility, traversing pools and chambers filled with the successes and failures of a program to create transplant monstrosities. And our Bard demonstrates his skills at stealth while our Rogue demonstrates why sometimes maybe you don’t need to. . . .

Is she a new friend or a new adversary? Namaria leads the party beneath their own castle to loot the tomb of Imbriel the Stargazer. Unfortunately, they are not the first ones into the tomb. An illusory pit, a cadre of tomb robbers, and a foiled plot await. . . .

Five of the most brilliant tactical minds in The Riding conducted the greatest planning session in the history of Dungeons and Dragons. The party successfully Uber-ed eighteen orcs across the Green River, through the tunnels beneath Highbridge, and up through the remnants of the looted temple of Tiamat. Lots of Hate Incarnate clerics died. And some spiders.

Rhagal gets a perfect 10 - even from the Polonian judge - with his backflip killshot as the party defends Castle Rend, fights off the Hate Incarnate, and kills Brother Pelliton. Other stuff happened, like meeting a fifth age ambassador named Atha and getting an invitation to Erenlune, hiring Pinna and Kelmen to run the castle, lighting a really cool beacon attached to an ancient statue of Lathander, doing performance art with a dead body, etc.

The party conducts a rescue mission at a ruined castle to save the kidnapped Pinna from a group of orcs from the Ancient Dominion. And all the orcs - led by the wanted Bonebreaker Dorokor - ask in return is some help in killing off the Hate Incarnate.

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This bunch of heroes never cared much for Martin Shimlock. So, now he is a sniveling, bootlicking sycophant. And Brother Pelliton is reasonably scary.

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Baby sphinx riddles are no match for Corliss and time flies when you’re having fun in the Feywild.

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The spirit of the ancient high-elf Alluria, one of the twelve children of the god Lythander, whispers that the fey archduchess Leylandra - the entity that controls access to the most venerable store of knowledge in the Feywild - is a “slutbag”. And that’s the classiest thing that happened.

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Lady Suvall is a sprite with a bad attitude and her own unique sense of fun. The party stumbles into her hedge maze and is given one minute to escape. Or die.

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The party is invited to a secret meeting at the Lyceum Arcanium, learns a ton of information about the past and future, ignores it all, and decides to jump through a mirror into the Feywild.

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The party returns to the Vale of Alluria with the dead body of a dead elven hero but finds that others have taken up residence in the grounds and in the tomb.

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The party delves into a Orcish temple separated from the world for hundreds of years. What do they get? A cool tattoo and a dead body.

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Plenty of answers are found at the top of the palace tower in the remains of Kithkaira. History comes to life and mythological figures are found dead.…

After a wild dream during a howling storm, Corliss feels driven to travel deep into the Black Forest in search of Shadowcrag. First a fight against a wyvern as they cross a rickety rope bridge over a ravine and then a battle with gooey red orb. Yornan loses his holy symbol.…

A trip through the Black Forest includes a visit with hungover members of The Resistance in a shanty town in the woods, a meeting with an elven scout team, and an ambush of Polonians. Plus, one very angry alligator!…

A day at the races, a visit with an old ally, and then a trip into wilderness. Such a bucolic paradise. At least until ten foot tall Ettins began raining boulders on the party.…

Descent into the black cells, prisoner extraction, and the biggest, ugliest monster yet. Plus, the second appearance of a fat man with a white beard and dressed all in red.…