Month: November 2020

Lost Mines of Phandelver – Session 25 Side B

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Hello Listeners!

This week is Episode 51, Session 25 Side B, for the Lost Mines of Phandelver, the beginners adventure presented in the Dungeons and Dragons Starter Set.

You’ll hear Alex play Hal, a level 4 Bard. Kaetlyn plays Uitzash, a level 4 Warlock in service to Dendar. Kolton is introducing Krask, a level 4 Lizardfolk Paladin. And Matt plays a level 4 Grung Wizard named Rwrarp (pronounced like a frog noise). Colin was DM’ing this game. We are using the Milestone leveling variant in this adventure.

In today’s episode we have a pretty tense series of rounds where Krask is unconscious and being eaten by ghouls. The party spends most of their time trying to figure out how to save the poor dying paladin but most of their plans are thwarted by the Action Economy. His rescue eventually comes in the form of an Owlbear. Not a statement typically applicable to most of my prior D&D games.

One big pun pushes us up to level 2

Please, enjoy the show!

Lost Mines of Phandelver – Session 25 Side A

Posted on by gmcolin

Hello Listeners!

This week is Episode 50, Session 25 Side A, for the Lost Mines of Phandelver, the beginners adventure presented in the Dungeons and Dragons Starter Set.

You’ll hear Alex play Hal, a level 4 Bard. Kaetlyn plays Uitzash, a level 4 Warlock in service to Dendar. Kolton is introducing Krask, a level 4 Lizardfolk Paladin. And Matt plays a level 4 Grung Wizard named Rwrarp (pronounced like a frog noise). Colin was DM’ing this game. We are using the Milestone leveling variant in this adventure.

In today’s episode, the players decide that it’s time to finish what they started with those ghouls they saw tear up their enemies a few episodes back after they defeated the Flame Skull. And by “finish what they started,” I mean “go in there for the very first time since they saw what happened with the Bugbears who went in there and Greg scouted it out for them.”

They head in there with a decent plan and a reckless attitude. Of course, Krask gets into trouble immediately.

What else would we expect from this group though, right?

Couple good puns in there, so we’ll give them the “2” this time.

Please, enjoy the show!

Lost Mines of Phandelver – Session 24 Side B

Posted on by gmcolin

Hello Listeners!

This week is Episode 48, Session 24 Side A, for the Lost Mines of Phandelver, the beginners adventure presented in the Dungeons and Dragons Starter Set.

You’ll hear Alex play Hal, a level 4 Bard. Kaetlyn plays Uitzash, a level 4 Warlock in service to Dendar. Kolton is introducing Krask, a level 4 Lizardfolk Paladin. And Matt plays a level 4 Grung Wizard named Rwrarp (pronounced like a frog noise). Colin was DM’ing this game. We are using the Milestone leveling variant in this adventure.

In today’s adventure, the players rescue the last surviving Rockseeker!

Colin considered this a major accomplishment since he was pretty sure they were going to miss this tiny, locked, side room in the dungeon. Not enough of an accomplishment to let the players level-up of course, they still have a lot of this dungeon to clear after all. The deal they end up cutting with the dwarven entrepreneur was also a stroke of genius on their part, so we can chalk this social encounter up as a win for them.

Got at least 1 pun in there this week, so we’re giving them an uptick on the ‘Meter!

Please, enjoy the show!

Lost Mines of Phandelver – Session 24 Side A

Posted on by gmcolin

Hello Listeners!

This week is Episode 48, Session 24 Side A, for the Lost Mines of Phandelver, the beginners adventure presented in the Dungeons and Dragons Starter Set.

You’ll hear Alex play Hal, a level 4 Bard. Kaetlyn plays Uitzash, a level 4 Warlock in service to Dendar. Kolton is introducing Krask, a level 4 Lizardfolk Paladin. And Matt plays a level 4 Grung Wizard named Rwrarp (pronounced like a frog noise). Colin was DM’ing this game. We are using the Milestone leveling variant in this adventure.

So there’s a fair amount of crosstalk in this episode. We’d been on hiatus for a while so we were excited to see each other and hang out again. I apologize for the sound quality and our lack of professionalism. But we did have a lot of fun, which I’ll never apologize for.

In this episode, the characters loot the bodies of their fallen foes and we have a lot of tangential thoughts and conversations. But there’s a little character building, a little investigation, and some discussion about the world as well.

Please, enjoy the show!