YOU CAN NOT HAVE A MEANINGFUL CAMPAIGN IF STRICT TIME RECORDS ARE NOT KEPT.” Advanced Dungeon Master’s Guide Gary Gygax Recently, I have become horribly disorganized and aware of time passage of my campaign in a only a coarse way. I think, we are 3 1/2 years from the beginning of the campaign, somewhere close to …
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The Kompanions had to deal with Zoran's lake monster or the trade on the Silver River, and their major income stream, would dry up. Akbar polymorphed himself into an eel and sought out the monster. He learned that the beast lingered in the deepest parts of the lake consuming schools of land locked salmon. It …
Stilgar, Rexor and Akbar replenished their potion stock, got Rexor's dungeon fungus cured and went back into the undercity of Nightside. On their way down the shaft to the deepest known section of the dungeon, the party encountered a trio of invisible giant spiders. The monstrous arachnids had spun webs hoping to catch something delicious …
Pompous Maximus and Akbar rejoined Rexor and Stilgar outside of the forgotten adamantine mine. The party determined that the magic inscription on the exterior of the mine was recent and written in the language of the Githzerai. It indicated that there was some sort of undead and a powerful golem within the depths of the …
The Kompanions returned back to the prime material world from the strange city of Nightside in the plane of Limbo. Pompous and Akbar returned to Vanessa's Lament to recover from their adventures in the undercity of Nightside. Stilgar and Rexor checked in with their men guarding the keep housing the Hall of Infinite doors. Just …
The Kompanions scheduled a meeting, a parley if you will with Lord Willem, de facto king of all the lands east of the Silver river. It was decided that they would talk, maybe, but they would mostly prepare to ambush and murder him. The Kompanions flew on their roc to the Fortress of the Hall …
The party kills a posh mindflayer, burns a trash pit and decide to negotiate instead of just murdering everyone.
