A new Dungeon and Dragons 5e adventure starts, and this blog is my choice of diary, and a writing exercise in English. ;)
The GM wants to play without feats and only with 2 rulebooks: PHD and SCAG. Additional some house rules I will come up with later.
For tabletop we use Owlbear Rodeo, for communication Discord.
The adventure takes place in the world of Forgotten Realms and starts in Baldurs Gate, we all play half-elfs at level one, which are connected through family. But through the fact that we wanted to play different half-elf variants, some are only cousins, others siblings.
The story starts at the end of Uktar in the year 1492 DR, when the moon festival takes place. The house Rillyn gathers annually at this time, so also this year, but a horrible event, the murder of Koruhn Rillyn, our grandfather, happened at the harbor in downtown. And he was not the only victim, some others were slaughtered too.
At the same time a lot of refugees from Elturel come to the city, why is not revealed yet.
So after the funeral the wife of Koruhn, Adelhayd Rillyn, our grandmother, calls for a meeting of the family members. My role is Fiona, a high-elf-half-elf, a swashbuckler with background of an Urban Bounty Hunter, mingled with the lower parts of the society, like gamblers and thieves. My brother Remus choose the path of a priest, while cousin Kaelen became a monk. Last in the group is Lukario, a fighter, trained in the family's own combat school.
Our grandma asked us to find out who killed her husband and arranged a meeting with a guard member named captain Zodge of the Flamming Fist in a tavern called Stone Knight in the downtown district Seatower. Soon after the meeting started three strange street thugs entered the location and started a fight with unarmed guests of the tavern. We intervened, but couldn't stop them from killing one of the guests. In this timeframe an assassin also started killing guests in other parts of the tavern, so that in the end three innocent people lay dead on the ground. From the attacker only one survived and we questioned him afterwards. He seemed not very bright and only the assassin, who's dead, could have given us more information. But we found out, the assassin was a member of the group Night Blade, and because of his red handkerchief we could identify him as a follower of the god Bhaal.
The scene was cleared with the help of the guard and we sat down again to talk with the officer whom we originally wanted to meet. He gave us information about the place, where the murder of our grandfather took place (downtown Eastway, directly by the pier) and gave us the task of finding one of his informants in the criminal group The Guild, who disappeared. She should have some insights about the murders and how these evil god cults are involved. Starting point of the investigation should be a tavern called Elfsong, also in the Eastway district. He also talked about the city Eturel and that Paladins from there are claiming, the city has disappeared and this is Baldurs Gate fault. So the guards are taking this Paladins in custody, because they are causing unrest in the city.
Then two more attackers arrived. We could overpower one of them, but the other fled into the darkness of the city. They do not seem to follow the god Bhaal but the evil gods Bane and Myrkul
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| Fiona |
Party Members:
- Fiona (Swashbuckler)
- Remus (Cleric, brother to Fiona)
- Kaelen (Monk, cousin to Fiona)
- Lukario (Fighter, cousin to Fiona)
Defeated Opponents:
- 3 Street Thugs
- 1 Night Blade (Bhaal)
- 1 Bane Follower