Session
6: Welcome to Undermountain Bitches!
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| Zibo, Undermountain's goblin guide. |
The Tyranny of Dragons campaign continues. This
Monday night the campaign continues after last week’s cliffhanger. You can read
about sessions 4-5
here. Now onto the latest events in the campaign!
Last week the characters while exploring the “Dragon
Hatchery” found a room with a room that had an archway and arcane runes
chiseled into it. On touching the wall, the members of the group disappeared and
found themselves transported into a another dungeon type environment.
Here they encountered a lone goblin decked out in
armor made of pots and pans and armed with a spatula who introduced himself as
Zibo. He explained that they must have been sent here via a one-way portal,
because there was no return portal that they could find.
The group spent the night in Zibo’s hidden lair and
the next morning he sent the off with a rough guide of how to make their way to
the Yawing Portal, which was the nearest exit to the surface that Zibo knew of.
He warned them to be careful in the dungeon region they needed to pass through
because a pair of wereboars named Tooth and Nailz had been terrorizing the area
and looting treasure.
Unfortunately, the characters were unable to sneak
past the lair of the wereboars without alerting them and a chase ensued. Raven
dropped some ball bearings causing Nails to slip and fall and Godric tried to
buy the group some time to make their escape facing off with them in combat.
This lead to a band of goblins being attracted to the fight. Variel managed to
cast hold person on Tooth keeping him out of the fight.
Eventually the group managed in a running battle to
defeat the lycanthropes and the goblins with some well placed spells and hit
and run combat tactics. The group decided to loot the bodies and drag the
wereboars back to their lair. In the lair, hidden behind a curtain of magical
darkness the group has holed up for the time being. Far from being safe they’ve
regrouped as they make plans on how to escape from the dangerous depths of
Undermountain…
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| Tooth and Nailz, when wereboars attack. |
DM
Notes
So I took things off the rails. Undermountain is not
featured at all in the Tyranny of Dragons
campaign. But I was ready to flex my DM muscles and make this campaign mine. I
do plan on continuing the battle against Tiamat, but I’m going to do it my way
and use the rest of the campaign books as inspiration.
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| Because I'm the DM thats why! |
For this session I used the stuff from the first
Undermountain boxed set as inspiration. The stuff with the wereboars came from
an encounter in that book and eventually the group should make it to the
Yawning Portal were I plan to launch other expeditions in the infamous dungeon
as well as in Waterdeep.
The other thing I tried to do this session was use the
chase rules from the 5e DM’s Guide. Things didn’t work out exactly as I
planned, and as one of my players suggested, it probably would have worked
better if I had had them chase something, instead of the other way around. In
addition, I made the mistake of trying to coerce them into running instead of
letting it happen naturally.
Otherwise the session went great. Everyone seemed to
have fun and I’m glad I made the decision about switching things up in the
campaign the way I did. And as I said, the party has not seen the last of the
Cult of the Dragon, Tiamat and of course that blue Dragon Lennithon that they
made a deal with not so long ago…
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