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The Five Fingers of Dorwine

A Dungeons & Dragons 5e game In the world of Dorwine
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Lore
Supporting Cast
  • Mayor Abet
    Abet is the consummate politician. Which is why she has been the mayor of Darknook for 20 years.
  • Aldan Gerop
    Aldan is the owner of The Triumphant King.
  • Hand of the Order of the Star Leaf Amafrey Windriver
    The brusque and enigmatic Hand of the order of the Star Leaf.
  • Bali
    Bali, the necromancer, was uncovered as the evil ringleader of a cannibal cult in the village of Darknook. He fled the village for parts unknown but still appears in the heads of his sworn enemies as a mocking voice in the night.
  • Town Archivist Bifford
    Bifford is the current town archivist for Darknook. His is an elected position but no one is opposing this lovable, if not a little doddery town character.
  • Maly Lete
    Maly is a troubled halfling warrior who can be found drinking her cares away in the Triumphant King
  • Old Nelly
    Old Nelly is a wise old woman and herbalist who lives about half a day's journey into the forest from Darknook. Old Nelly is often visited by the villagers, many of whom are convinced she is a witch.
  • Captain Torbera Ungart
    The no-nonsense dwarven captain of the Darknook Town Guard
  • Sir Vejapho Klokis
    A wandering Knight of the Garden who seeks to mete out justice and support the enforcement of the laws of Dorwine.

Sessions Archive

20th Mar 2022

The Fungal Jungle

Where the Five Fingers, when given the choice between a straight path to their objective, or a route through a jungle of mushrooms, chose the mushrooms.



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13th Mar 2022

Trolled in the temple

Where the Five fingers fight a temple guardian and meet the stage residents of a village



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6th Mar 2022

Weeding

Where the party battles one plant and then blunders into something else



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27th Feb 2022

Strange Fruit

Where the party ventures into the strange jungle valley and finds themselves in danger.



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20th Feb 2022

The wurm in the dark

After battling past the deep dragon's guardians the Five fingers come face to face with the wurm himself and discover a strange land beyond.



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13th Feb 2022

A ropey business

Where the Five Fingers do some cave diving and meet two nasty foes



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30th Jan 2022

Brain Drain

Where the party meets some unpleasant critters underground and Alok loses his mind.



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16th Jan 2022

Turning on a worm

Where the heroes fight a giant subterranean worm



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12th Dec 2021

All the way down

Where the party descends deep into the earth and Badalona goes a little too far, too fast.



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5th Dec 2021

Escape at any cost

Where Bali stoops to his lowest and Alok is set free



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28th Nov 2021

Wraith against the machine

Where most of the heroes explore a tomb and Alok loses a finger



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14th Nov 2021

Locked Up

Where the heroes finally make it to Allgringthveit and Alok gets a little closer than he'd bargained



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7th Nov 2021

Unlikely Characters

Where the heroes adopt some unlikely personae to foil the authorities



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31st Oct 2021

Hitting the wall

Where the Five Fingers set off for a dwarven city and do a bit of spying



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17th Oct 2021

Shirts and Circuses

Where the Five Fingers try public health Marsahurst style and visit the circus.



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10th Oct 2021

Cults and Beer

In the aftermath of the portal closure the Five Fingers of Dorwine mop up the collateral damage left behind. And an old friend of Thomas’s makes his appearance.



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3rd Oct 2021

The Hellgate

Where the heroes battle to close a demonic portal.



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26th Sep 2021

The Cult Cellar

Where the heroes finally find out what Berny has in his basement



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19th Sep 2021

Barlgura

Where the Five Fingers battle a demon in a pub.



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12th Sep 2021

Sneak by night

Where our heroes help out Marsahurst and Marble does some breaking and entering.



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5th Sep 2021

Takes the Biscuit

Where our heroes head back to Marsahurst and meet a wandering baker



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22nd Aug 2021

Touch and Go

Where the Five fingers are forced to flee with the document and the gnolls in hot pursuit.



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15th Aug 2021

The Deal

Where the Five Fingers of Dorwine meet the new leader of the gnolls to conclude their deal



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8th Aug 2021

Catch and Release

Thomas, Marble and Alok take a day off and make an important deal.



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1st Aug 2021

Leap of faith

Where the act first and think later tendencies of the heroes finally bear fruit.



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25th Jul 2021

World’s Rest

The Five Fingers of Dorwine finally arrive at the World’s Rest Healing Centre



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18th Jul 2021

Set in Stone

In which our heroes find themselves petrified and Thomas makes a deal with big consequences.



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4th Jul 2021

On the hunt of the hunters

Where the party fights off the gnolls and goes to find a missing victim.



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20th Jun 2021

The Burning Farm


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30th May 2021

Welcome to Marsahurst

The Five Fingers of Dorwine arrive in the village of Marsahurst and put Badalona to bed.



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23rd May 2021

Zombies are tough

Where the Five Fingers of Dorwine finally defeat The Hunter. But not without finding out how tough zombies can be to kill.



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16th May 2021

Enter the Hunter

The Five Fingers of Dorwine finally meet Bali's Hunter



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9th May 2021

Old friends in Formene

The Five Fingers of Dorwine return to Formene to recover and run into some old friends with disturbing news.



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18th Apr 2021

Getting Trolled

Where the Five Fingers head off to kill a troll and rescue a pig



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11th Apr 2021

Banning the Banshee

Where the Five Fingers take on a banshee



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27th Mar 2021

Time in Formene

Four of the Five Fingers kill some time in the Elven Empire



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21st Mar 2021

Malvia's Emporium

Badalona gets a warm welcome and the Five Fingers go shopping



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7th Mar 2021

Break on through to the Heaviside

Where the Five Fingers of Dorwine finally arrive in Formene



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28th Feb 2021

The Battle of Utford

Returning swiftly to Utford The Five Fingers of Dorwine discover the hobgoblin Marteg and his minions menacing the whole village.



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21st Feb 2021

Storms

The Five Fingers of Dorwine finally return to Utford, where the welcome isn't quite as warm as expected.



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14th Feb 2021

Bravely they ran away

After a couple of big battles The Five Fingers of Dorwine stop to take some rest in the Undercrypt of Nyala the Lunatic



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31st Jan 2021

A dungeoning we will go

The Five Fingers of Dorwine find themselves deep inside the Undercrypt of Nyala the Lunatic.



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17th Jan 2021

Owls in the mist

The Five Fingers of Dorwine finally arrive in Utford, to a less than warm reception, and embark on a dungeon side quest.



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10th Jan 2021

Caves and Shadows

Where our heroes finally fulfil a classic trope and meet a monster in a cavern....guarding a trove of treasure



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13th Dec 2020

Banderhobos


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6th Dec 2020

The Five Fingers of Dorwine

Where our heroes visit the closest Dorwine has to a god on earth and come up with a party name.



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29th Nov 2020

On the road

The Heroes of Darknook head away from the region surrounding the Llangoed Forest for the first time as they head towards the Sanctuary of White Light



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22nd Nov 2020

Ghosts and truths

The Heroes of Darknook spend some time in Starleaf Vale and deliver what could be the performance of their lives



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15th Nov 2020

Shopping and Spiders

In which the Heroes of Darknook fight off more spidery foes and do a spot of shopping in Starleaf Vale.



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1st Nov 2020

Into the woods?

Where our heroes may begin the process of travelling the Llangoed. But there’s an election to deal with first



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18th Oct 2020

Electoral fraud and the Shaming Stool

In which the Heroes of Darknook tidy up some loose ends



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11th Oct 2020

Swole horses and mephits

In which our heroes solve the mystery of Burga’s Anvil



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4th Oct 2020

In which Marble gets a foot scrub and develops a man-crush

The Heroes decompress after their ghoul slaying



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27th Sep 2020

The ghouls get a thrashing, some people almost die - but wait where’s Badalona

Finally the ghouls menacing Darknook get their comeuppance



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20th Sep 2020

When the gift won't go away

In which Bali leaves a parting gift for the Heroes of Darknook - an Ogre Zombie.



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13th Sep 2020

The things Bali keeps in his closet

In which our heroes head off to poke about in Bali's tower



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28th Aug 2020

Assassins and hallucinations

In which our heroes survive a brazen assassination attempt



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4th Aug 2020

Reels and graves

Where our heroes get involved in politics and visit the graveyard.



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27th Jul 2020

Spiders and Thunder

The Heroes of Darknook come together for the first time to face giant spiders, and their odd master.



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22nd Jun 2020

Badalona & Mehmen kill a mimic

Where 2 local heroes save an old woman from burning at the stake



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The Protagonists

Marble

Badalona Ailendogs

Alok Ravaralei

Mehmen Ashid

Neutral Half elf ()
Druid 2
20 / 20 HP
STR
-1
DEX
10
CON
16
INT
13
WIS
17
CHA
16

Thomas Marchant