SoloBickering

Flashback! --  Ingle: Viscount Espeque may have made his decision. But we need to let him know about Ouzi's problem.  jack: You mean uh Baron Jazz problem? Ingle: Not his right name, but sure. Umbert: I can write the Viscount.  then, seeing surprise on some faces continues...     I don't even need to sign the party to it, since I belong to the Wizard Academy. It could just be this. I fear though, without seein' much o'th' grey beards. Pod objects. It's an easy vote, yes, for the majority, though  Cied contrarily votes against Pod. And both Jack and Umbert raise qualified conditions.  So we can imagine the scene with both parties now fully equipped, the Greybeards moving in below the monastery, and the party moving out, ready to leave.  Oh younkers, you got a new big menace? - I'm afraid so, or rather, put it like this. In recent days, we stumbled upon an account of giant ants that could wipe out all of a county if left unchecked, Ingle begins. ......

Monastery fight part 2   Ingle uses the staff on himself, gaing minimal 2, he is on 9 of 14.     During round 13 the party grapples with guilt at getting their level zeroes killed, and whether to go on is just to be chipped and nibbled to death.   Eryn: I'd like to know why a raiding force of goblins is attacking this particular place, but I want to kite any others here so we can kill them   Ingle: likewise.   Jack: the goblins didn't even notice me in the elf gear, I'll scout forward   Umbert: Kylie still has her web spell. I vote to advance.   Pod and cied both shake their heads. Cied says, a bit shamefaced, there's no loot to be had here, the village won't thank you for getting killed.    Kylie smiles and says, goblin ears can be salted until we get to lake town, they do pay there. And I think umbert is right.   Xantu is piling gob corpses up at both exits and spares a bah no for the debate, but now it's a choice between kiting a...

36.1 - the great dungeon and my decision not to progress So far, I've avoided using too many external tools. I felt like once I shift away from a d6, I'm losing sight of testing the variant rules for combat.     In this situation though, the d6 tells me that these ancient ways are what I call a "dead" dungeon. There is no vast ecology of predators and prey. Instead, the party faces only traps, mostly caused by entropy.     This will not, then, be any use in testing variant rules for combat!      I could skip forward. But that would be unfair to the dungeon and the potential for claiming lives. So instead, I'm using a set of dungeon generating tables I wrote – longhand – for my oracle d6 rules, for a completely different fantasy world. I hope to see it in action once I'm happy with this world,  Rollohi , and the variant rules can all be written down with little chance of revision.     My first roll was for the entrance, when the party sle...