Before the Federation of Explorers (FOE) existed...
Homebrew Campaign in the Forgotten Realms
Flashback 3 of 3
[A year ago, during April and May, AMC DM’d me and NH through a fun series of adventures in the same world as the current FOE adventures…]
The group used the secret passage to get to the roof, where
they saw towers with balistas and big bolts – with Neverwinter below. Tahlwyn
completed the ritual, turning 2 of the commoners into gold dragons; Bahamut
appeared (for a moment). The dragons dropped the group off at the towers to use
the balistas (and left, flying to fight the incoming shadow dragon leader).
Clover and Tahlwyn were on 2 different towers and each had
to kill the ballista guards. They used the weapons to help the 2 gold dragons
fight the shadow dragon. Clover called upon his god Kozah and took down the
shadow dragon with a blast of divine lightning that also propelled himself into
the shadow dragon; Clover and the shadow dragon crashed into the flying castle,
where Clover tumbled and discovered a death slaad; the team came to help and
Koseph died in combat before the death slaad was slain.
Trying to escape, Clover and Tahlwyn ended up falling
through the sky and onto an enemy flying ship, where they intimidated 5 of the
bad guys into either fleeing or helping. Below deck were 9 more enemies running
the cannons; after they defeated the leader, Clover and Tahlwyn took command of
the others and ordered them to fire on the other enemy airships.
Their captured ship became a target and they had to flee,
jumping from airship to airship as it was being destroyed. On the next ship,
they defeated another boss and made the 4 workers again turn the cannons on the
other airships.
After surviving that action, Clover healed Sharina and the
team helped the rebels break into the city to defeat the evil enemy army. They
were invited to the rebel leadership meeting with 1 copper dragonborn, 1 gold
half-dragon, and a human. They declared Clover, Tahlwyn, and Sharina heroes and
gave them each a reward of a noble estate; they also insisted that this was
only 1 battle of a larger war.
Clover planned to hire someone to run his noble estate so he
could leave for more adventures and see what else he could do to help with the
war and free the Sword Coast from the forces of the dragon army.
Reflections:
As a player, this might have been the most fun I've ever had in an adventure session. We used a lot of creativity with the battle in the sky and it was super exciting jumping from airship to airship as each one was destroyed. It was one of those epic moments in gaming that is really hard to reproduce and it was truly shocking that our characters survived.
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