Session 0: Getting Started Report

General Summary

The Session 0 stuff......

Out of character.... we are playing Shadows of the Dragon Queen. Characters can have rolled or standard array attributes, a bonus feat (per the campaign rules).

The party consists of:

• Ines Greenshield, a human rogue
• Billy Bob Senior Junior, a gnome druid & hermit
• Gygax of the Plains, a human bard & entertainer
• Atreya Xilosient, a Qualinesti elf Paladin & acolyte
• Esteban, a human warlock & sage.

The five all have ties to Ispin greenshield, a retired human adventurer, and have just been given word of his death by one of his adventuring companions, a knight named Becklin Uth Viharin. The adventure starts (or will start) with the party traveling the road to Volger for Ispin's memorial service.

• Ines was found by the adventurers when she was a child and owes her life to them -- and was even raised by them for a while.
• Atreya helped advise the adventures on the proper care and feeding of an infant.
• Gygax is grateful to Ispin for help rescuing his pet cat, years ago, from a tree.
• Billy Bob Senior Junior met Ispin in the woods, and although Billy trusts no one and tends to avoid contact, he took a liking to the odd human and befriended him.
• Esteban met Ispin and Becklin and the third member of their adventuring group, Cudgel Ridomir Ironsmile when the group was adventuring and Esteban was a child. The trio stayed a few days as guests on Esteban's family's estate, and Esteban was fascinated with the life of an adventurer.

We also did a few rounds of Backstory cards to try to build some additional relationships between characters and some elements in the nearby city of Kalaman . Highlights involved some hijinks around the night of the North Ward Fire several years ago, and the The Verdant Refuge that Billy and Estaban had a hand in creating. Atraya and Ines have earned some bad feelings from the city council, and somehow Gygax has managed to annoy most of the others in the group over the past few years at one time or another. Several also had run-ins with a black-robed mage and apothecary in Kalaman. There are more details, we'll flesh them out if they become important.

Billy and Atreya have visions

Billy and Atreya had visions (separately) that connected them to their divine sources of power, making them some of the first people in Krynn to be granted divine power as the divine return to the world. Billy's connection was wordless and warm, but Atreya's involved a fairly informal conversation, apparently with her goddess Mishakal, the goddess of compassion, healing, and love.

On the road to Vogler

The party -- traveling the road from Kalaman to Vogler -- comes upon a young farm boy running for his life. He explains that he's been traveling with some knights who had hired him to care for their horses. Their band has been waylaid on the road a little ways ahead by reptilian creatures, and he was running for his life. The party managed to move quietly forward to see what was going on, and they did indeed see the scene of a battle -- knights and mounts dead in the road, an overturned wagon, and cloaked reptilian creatures picking looting the bodies and the wagon. So, they snuck up to attack positions, and gygax opened with a casting of Fairie Fire to try to let the miscreants know they are in trouble. Then the party attacked, focusing on one of the lizard things and nearly taking him out before the rest of them even have had a chance to react.
And that's where we had to stop for the session.....

Campaign

Acadia Dragonlance Campaign

Protagonists

Report Date

08 Apr 2024

Primary Location

Volger

Secondary Location

Kalaman

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