Shattered Star - Book 3: The Asylum Stone

Landing page for the Session Notes for Book 3 of the adventure path.  The Other GM has modified this book, possibly significantly, so comparisons to the published material may vary.

Session 1 - Retcon of a previous meeting and getting on a boat.

Session 2 - Sailing up the Yondabakari River with stop over at Wartle for side quests

Session 3 - Fighting the lesher and its minions

Session 4 - Fight conclusion, rescue of villagers, return to Wartle

Session 5 - Rest of the river trip, ending with arrival at Sirathu

Session 6 - Up the Storval Rise

Session 7 - Arrival at Kaer Maga and a tour for shopping

Session 8 - Dinner with Abra, continued tour, and first foray to the Spire

Session 9 - Working at and exploring the Spire

Session 10 - The Elf Job explained and a challenge

Session 11 - An unnecessary fight, then scoping out the Elf Job

Session 12 - Planning the Elf Job and a wrinkle

Session 13 - The Elf Job starts…and then goes sideways

Session 14 - The Elf Job: the Ratpack Escapes

Session 15 - The Elf Job: Conclusion

Session 16 - The Elf Job, Part 2: Talking to the Temple and Acquiring the Prophecy

Session 17 - The Elf Job, Part 2: The Job is done and information is brokered

Session 18 - Hrefna hears things; the Delve begins

Session 19 - Hounds, Kytons, and Lurkers in the Light!

Session 20 - Lurkers and wasps!

Session 21 - Wasps and recovery

Session 22 - Dwarf located and spin-dried

Session 23 - The Fish Trap

Session 24 - Naga and the Hydrodaemons

Session 25 - Damn the Hydrodaemons!

Session 26 - A Day Topside, then the Ratpack finds the Menhir and enters the Dark Forest

Session 27 - Still in the Dark Forest

Session 28 - Failed approach and wyverns

Session 29 -  Into the Black Keep

Session 30 - The fighting continues

Session 31 - Fear takes its toll and the Ratpack holes up

Session 32 - Some interrupted rest, back to the Black Keep, and alien undead!?

Session 33 - Discussions and Roof Wraiths

Session 34 - Loudest Heist Ever

Session 35 - Three Deaths

Session 36 - Mopping Up

Session 37 - Conclusions

This Book is now complete.  We will eventually do Book 4, but I would not expect to see that until sometime in 2024.  Check back with the blog for updates on what we are playing now and when Book 4 becomes immanent.

Ratpack - Shattered Star Adventure Path

Landing page for the Ratpack playing through the Shattered Star Adventure Path.

The Ratpack started as a group of ratfolk adventurers looking to improve their fortunes.  They stumbled on a mystery that lead to one of the fragments of an ancient relic.  Now they seek the remaining fragments, not yet certain what they are going to do once they have all the shards of the Shattered Star.

[This page exists because each book has a lengthy list of session notes and it would be overwhelming to put them all on one page.  Therefore, I will create separate pages for each book.  I didn't decide to do this until I started Book 3, so Books 1 and 2 will follow when I can take the time to create them.]

Book 1 - Shards of Sin

    Completed adventure, 32 sessions.

Book 2 - Curse of the Lady's Light

    Completed adventure, 49 sessions.

Book 3 - The Asylum Stone

    Active adventure.  Landing page created.

Covid, Mark 2

 My plan was to use the Labor Day holiday to resume writing blog posts after taking August off from my writing schedule.  Unfortunately, I came down with Covid August 26th and ran a fever for the next week.  This was much worse than my first run in with Covid, but it could have been much, much, worse, so I still consider myself lucky.  My immune system seems to be able to handle it, especially after getting the vaccine and 1st booster.  My wife has lingering side-effects, probably due to her asthma, but did not need to be hospitalized.  This round gave me significant headaches, such that I couldn't concentrate enough to read or write at all and just watched TV and slept.  [This led to a minor NCIS addiction as it is available, in order, on Netflix now.  I'm up to Season 9 now.]

I'm feeling better and I'm over the infection, but I'm still pretty sluggish about doing things and tire quickly.  This will likely be the only post this week.  I hope to have a session write-up posted next week [Shattered Star AP, Book 3]and then consistently each week after that.  I'm also resuming the Draft D review of Book III of my OD&D clone, Adventures in the Green.  I very much want to get that to a completed state so I can publish this year.

That's it for now.  Type more at you later!