I kick off this session with a little world building, using the ShadowDark Maps tables to develop some information on the Forge of Dendor. We get the rough size, that it is a tomb, and that it has something to do with the dead. This last fact makes Rufus and Silas a little nervous. I get a little ahead of myself and start to design a tomb...then I catch myself and head back to the gaming session...
The boys figure out that undead mean you need silver or silvered weapons. I borrow an idea from my friend Tim over at Gothridge Manor (described in the lower right corner). So we head to the local blacksmith shop to see about silvering. I use the tables in ShadowDark to whip up a quick shop and then use my oracle to handle the social interactions.
They settle up the account and realize all this chatter made them poorer and thirsty, so they head back to the Barnacled Dog to drink with Sixfingers a little. At this point I am feeling like I need an image of ol' Six so we know what we are dealing with. I get a wonderful reaction from Six when they walk in, he must like their coin.
At this point I realize my guys are pretty poor and probably not ready to handle a large dungeon of undead, so an idea of smaller locations nearby hits me. I toss a prompt into MJ and get a wonderful looking tower high up on a mountainside and another idea hits me....
Another bar patron who knows some nearby, unexplored locations steps in.
This ends up becoming an entire valley with small tower forts high up, watchtowers of some sort. Gaspard (named after a guy who works for me) knows where they are and will guide them for a fee, 10% of what they pull out of the place. A deal is struck
I am really getting in the groove now, with things rolling along pretty well and easily. It is times like this that I enjoy solo gaming. It is a live creative jam session, rolling with ideas that come to me, rolling some dice, writing things up, and just going with the flow. I love it.
PDF version of the session:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FKxSw39_U28Gr8gKWypJ9hrleLTgihpT/view?usp=sharing
Really starting to feel like a campaign
ReplyDeleteSession four is great! Really enjoying this so fsr.
DeleteHi Matt, this looks and reads absolutely awesome! Love the embedded pictures and everything. Out of curiosity, what kind of software or app do you use? It looks great, like real paper and everything. And do you actually handwrite onto the screen with some kind of pen or is it typed with a handwriting fondset? Looks like a great mobile set-up when traveling etc.
DeleteI have an iPad Air, 11 inch I believe, with an Apple pen. Then I use an app called GoodNotes to ‘journal’ the game. With the PDFs and MidJourney on the iPad, I can easily screenshot whatever I need and paste it into Goodnotes, creating a ‘Scrapbook’ looking game journal.
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