In our eventful seventh session (the first one we played online), we continued with Chapter 2 of Empire of the Ghouls, The Holy Robes of Sister Adelind. Here’s the write up which contains spoilers for the campaign. 11th Harvest Tide, 92 FY The party arrive at the Black Fortress and meet General Jaro Whitebeard. The dwarf identifies the man inContinue reading “Empire of the Ghouls Session 7 – The Court in Exile”
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Old Quarter Commoner 5e Background
Here’s a 5e Old Quarter Commoner background for Parsantium: City at the Crossroads. OLD QUARTER COMMONER You come from a poor family struggling to make ends meet in the Dock Ward or Poor Ward of the Old Quarter. You might be a Sampuran belonging to the shudra caste, a half-orc or an Aqhrani. Either way, you toil awayContinue reading “Old Quarter Commoner 5e Background”
Empire of the Ghouls Session 6 – The Black Canton
In our sixth session, we continued with Chapter 2 of Empire of the Ghouls, The Holy Robes of Sister Adelind. Here’s the write up which contains spoilers for the campaign. 2nd Harvest Tide, 92 FY The party arrive in the village of Stromberg; Zygmunt returns the gold nugget to Dorrim’s widow. Later, they share a camp with a groupContinue reading “Empire of the Ghouls Session 6 – The Black Canton”
Empire of the Ghouls Session 5 – The Clockwork Oracle
In our fifth session, we finished Chapter 1 of Empire of the Ghouls, Dread Chambers of the Undercity and started Chapter 2. Here’s the write up which contains spoilers for the campaign. For the Clockwork Oracle’s machine speech, I used sound effects from a steampunk album I found on Spotify – it worked really well 🙂 8th – 14th High Summer,Continue reading “Empire of the Ghouls Session 5 – The Clockwork Oracle”
Empire of the Ghouls Session 4 – The Cult of Forbidden Ecstasies
In our fourth session, we continued Chapter 1 Dread Chambers of the Undercity by Chris Lockey. Here’s the write up which contains spoilers for the campaign. 7th High Summer, 92 FY Joined by Bubbles, the characters return to the catacombs. En route, Kalo, Penumbra’s new pseudodragon familiar, hears a noise from a side passage. In the room beyond a cagedContinue reading “Empire of the Ghouls Session 4 – The Cult of Forbidden Ecstasies”
Empire of the Ghouls Session 3 – Into the Catacombs
In our third session of Empire of the Ghoul, we continued Chapter 1 Dread Chambers of the Undercity by Chris Lockey. Here’s the write up. 4th High Summer, 92 FY Day three with Brik, shopping for fresh produce in the Market District. Zygmunt has his pocket picked, but manages to convince one of the stall holdersContinue reading “Empire of the Ghouls Session 3 – Into the Catacombs”
Empire of the Ghouls Session 2 – The Black Book
We finished Everyone Lies by Ben McFarland from Streets of Zobeck in our second session, and moved on to the first chapter of Empire of the Ghouls, Dread Chambers of the Undercity by Chris Lockey. Here’s the write up. 28th Low Summer, 92 FY (contd.) The Silk Scabbard heist is on! Louthin, Penumbra and the Gears sneak through the Cartways, while BubblesContinue reading “Empire of the Ghouls Session 2 – The Black Book”
Bureaucrat 5e Background
Here’s a 5e Bureaucrat background for Parsantium: City at the Crossroads. BUREAUCRAT You have served in Parsantium’s vast and complex bureaucracy as one of the “beardless”, a junior civil servant. If male, you may be a eunuch, born to a poor family who handed you over to the authorities for schooling in return for a well-paid government jobContinue reading “Bureaucrat 5e Background”
Gladiator 5e Background
Here’s a 5e Gladiator background for Parsantium: City at the Crossroads. GLADIATOR You have fought many times on the sands of the Hippodrome to entertain the crowds, killing and maiming wild beasts and your fellow gladiators for money and glory. You were either raised from an early age to fight in the stadium, were sent thereContinue reading “Gladiator 5e Background”
Vanara – New 5e Race
Here’s a new race for Parsantium: City at the Crossroads or any 5th edition game – the vanara. I originally wrote this in 2014 for a game I ran at Dragonmeet, but went on to use it for my character Kamalesh, a vanara cleric of Hanuman with the trickery domain, which I played in myContinue reading “Vanara – New 5e Race”