Chronicles of the Consortium

Sir Blanque - swordsman and handsome, dashing noble half mer-person Marion - stabby stabby dagger specialist; Nihrain who currently carries the Runestaff Destiny - Menastrai sorceress covertly raised on Melnibone Bomilcar - Weeping Waste nomad from a chieftain's family Unpronounceable - Draconian from another plane of existence, probably related to the Melniboneans White Plume Mountain! I've been planning this one for a while now. As well as the individual campaign elements, many of which were published as standalone  like this one, but which I have loosely linked together, I have a grand overarching campaign arc. Some of that now comes together: https://external-preview.redd.it/i9_wO7qVPpubsGA4wPjgm4GFhZgUQrB19N3vztXfV10.jpg?auto=webp&s=e3c7f6ebab8e8de0a8bda2dda77af131461c528d White Plume Mountain  is a very famous early 'fun-house' dungeon; above is the link and image to someone's run-through, with really nice details. It's basically composed of three...

Sir Blanque - swordsman and handsome, dashing noble half mer-person Marion - stabby stabby dagger specialist; Nihrain who currently carries the Runestaff Destiny - Menastrai sorceress covertly raised on Melnibone Bomilcar - Weeping Waste nomad from a chieftain's family The Desert of Desolation  campaign book provides the three encounters the characters have already had, and states that three of the minarets are already on the towers of the central hologram they are supposed to join; three of the corresponding side-shapes are darkened. The suggests that someone else (or perhaps multiple groups) has already accomplished three of the six tasks, which seems very unlikely given all of the interplanar shenanigans involved. So I made it six. There are particular campaign reasons for the final one, although the players don't know that yet. I'll make this brief as a way of describing the three extra ones I used. Two of them were taken from the first White Dwarf Compendium, the same ...

 I haven't posted on this blog for many months. Life became very hectic after being threatened with redundancy yet again, and I applied for jobs, some of them quite far afield. I did this on a previous occasion, before I moved to England, and I was offered one in Cyprus and another in Oman, but I couldn't accept them because they were fixed-term contracts only, and with a young family I needed more security than that. So we toughed it out, and eventually things went our way and I got a permanent job in England.  And then it went awry too. I knew this wouldn't end up in compulsory redundancy because the idiots doing the dirty did everything wrong; it was, though, clear that they wanted to get rid of as many of us as possible by making the place impossible to work. So we had a family confab and decided that I should apply for jobs overseas again, as well as in the UK. And I got one. I've been working remotely since January for a University in Abu Dhabi, but it has been fu...