talumin

Really quick summary of this session because not a great deal happened over a long period of time. I'm not feeling this game as much - I love using Manu, and the module is fun, but I don't know if it's the different DM or just the encounters we've found ourselves in. It just doesn't capture me the way the regular game does (sorry, DM, if you're reading).

So it took us forever to get through the battle at the gate, mainly because we could knock the creatures down but only kill them with fire, and I made a couple of errors that meant we didn't get a fire spell going until after M's Dragonborn wizard was dead. He spent the next hour or so making a new character while we levelled up and got new magic items and RPed a bit.

M's new character rocked up and asked us to go and help him with a quest - which we said "sure!" to, simply because we were getting nowhere with what we were supposed to be doing, so maybe if we tried something else?? This new character is a paladin based off a Southern preacher, and B switched from his bard to another paladin because the bard wasn't great in combat.

We ended up going back to the airship that brought us here, and discovered the captain had been kidnapped by these giant things. Using my awesome dire wolf senses, we tracked the beasts and found the captain, being held captive (hehe captive captain) by giant apes. The tabaxi attacked, but while the two paladins were being pounded into the ground, I tried to talk the giant apes around, because apparently they speak Primordial, which only me and the tabaxi took. And again, we had to stop mid combat, so I suspect that next session we'll either be wiped across the floor or have an entire session of battle.

OK, so lots of campaign diaries now, just to keep my head around them all.

I have the Storm King's Thunder module book, so I sort of know what to expect with this campaign, but the DM S has said he's going to be changing a LOT, so I'm excited. I also have avoided picking up the STK book since the campaign was announced, so I won't be tempted to check on things.

This game I'm playing Manu Kuka-Ilimoru, a goliath circle of the moon druid, which means I can transform into different animals and use LOTS of magic. Personality wise, he's basically Korg from Thor Ragnarok - he believes in balance and letting things be, but the world is a brutal place, so sometimes he has to work and fight to bring it back into balance.

We started off on an airship going to Goldenfields, and we introduced ourselves. We have me, A playing a monosyllabic dwarf pyromancer, B (our usual DM) playing a halfling bard, E playing a tabaxi warlock, T playing an aasimir paladin, and M playing a silver dragonborn divination wizard. T has dropped her paladin after the first session, so we'll see what she's playing next week.

Our airship got attacked by four air elementals who were trying to free the captive air elemental that steers the ship. We managed to kill the attacking elementals, but they did free the captive one first, who escaped and left us stranded. We managed to pass a skill challenge to save the ship from crashing, so yay us!

After landing, we continued towards Goldenfields with our contact, who was quickly becoming the Major Reisman to our Dirty Half-Dozen. We were stopped by what were clearly bandits and although the bard tried to talk us past, the dwarf mage toasted about eight of them with one fireball shot, which meant we were battling. Some great initiative rolls meant that I turned into a dire wolf and teamed up with the warlock to kill the leader before the bandits even had a turn. The bandits fled, save for one who may have been the leader's wife. She kept pointlessly attacking and since Manu is totally feral in beast mode, he had to be magicked into NOT killing her. So the tabaxi did it instead. This led to major conflict between the warlock and paladin, with them nearly killing each other. It also made T realise she didn't like her character and want to switch.

We eventually made it to Goldenfields and I was reminded why we were actually going there (there are missing treants) but before we could really get to talk to the locals, we were taken to the castellan, who proved to be a massive tool who had no idea what was going on in his community. We might have made some mistakes there, but that's where the session ended before we could learn more.

I'm playing again Thursday, but our regular DM will be running one-shots on Wednesdays, so lots of roleplaying to come!!