The RPG SAGA continues with "The Dream Team" of:
Koriel "Kori" the aasimar (human-looking) arcane archer,"Puff" the gnome dream druid,
Aegle the winged elf kensei monk,
and their allies...
DM Note
I've let myself be inspired by "West Marches" style games for some of my recent DMing. The players are exploring in short bursts, sometimes encountering things above their level, finding areas to explore later, and returning to the (somewhat) safety of the home town. It's fun, but I can already tell I'm going to want to change things up soon.
4U Session 3 Log
Home-brew Campaign (Alternate Forgotten Realms)
Out in the forests outside of Tholmme: Having restored Thunderer's Hill to normalcy, the group rested at the Ryali statue. They had different dreams/visions before heading back toward town. On the way, Aegle spotted that "Grandma" gnome's forest cabin was on fire, being attacked by fire elementals.
The large elemental plane-shifted away, leaving four magmin for the group to fight. This battle was interesting because they had to protect injured Grandma and themselves from the exploding magmin. After the team destroyed the elementals, the burning house collapsed in on itself and revealed a mysterious dark well beneath it (which the team decided to worry about later).
When the team returned to Tholmme with Granma, they split the party and went to different places - including the "Gnomes for Hire" tree, the blacksmith's shop (where Aegle got the blacksmith arrested for having a fire elemental imprisoned in his forge), the tavern, and the temple (where Kori recruited the gold dragonborn cleric of Bahamut to assist them).
With Granma and the cleric, the team tried to execute the necromancer (with permission from the mayor). He got away, but understood that he had been exiled by the group. The gave possession of the tower to Granma, who agreed to store their treasure in the basement. There was some concern that Granma might have been a hag because of some confusion with "Papa Gnome" at the treehouse and the mayor. The halfling druid in town helped sort things out; Grandma was not a hag monster.
A leprechaun from the fairy plane came to town looking for Lord Eagle and thought that Aegle was Eagle. After resting for the night, the group went with the leprechaun the next day (after it had painted the bridge over the river with a rainbow pattern) to the fairy plane. There, they met the archfey of the winged elves, who was also a primordial of the air spirits and thus the leader for Aegle's group - except the team is in an alternate universe (which Puff tried explaining from his vision earlier in the adventure) in which the elemental cults have more power than in their home universe (because they weren't stopped by the heroes of long ago).
Realizing the confusion, Aegle opted to stay with the archfey and attempt to find a way to rescue his universal counterpart, Lord Eagle, who was said to have been captured by the fire elementals. The leprechaun - meanwhile - took Kori, Puff, and Frazzle back to Tholmme...
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