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s sure he wants to do this foolhardy thing but he insists of course i ask him to make a dexterity check on the way down to stay atop the elephant as it slides down the nearly vertical jagged rocky surface of course he rolls a two with his modifier becoming a one oh joel you never should have attempted this the elephant decides to ride the dwarf down the final half of the ravine and they end up at the mouth of the cave the dwarf unconscious at zero hit points with only his boots visible under the elephant s seated butt the rest of the party chose to descend using the secret carved staircase dwarf elephants have a long memory and the will not forgive the dwarf for his treatment of them the other one he painted black by the way as the dm i may need to take those elephants away from him they entered the cave after killing the guards and reviving the dwarf they avoided the fungus garden and came to a cross roads one had lots of feet traveling down it the other one less so then the dwarf in a scene out of aliens had his nose to the ground and said feet many feet getting closer they are right on top of us where are they with his nose to the ground he couldn t se any o the feet so one of the players said i look up and there were three flying kobolds six floating feet coming towards them it was a short battle and we might have ended it there or continued a little further i can t remember anything that happened after the feet incident non dnd game night saturday since i started with ogre i guess i will not end with fantasy foot fetish but instead go out like i came in with talk of games other than dnd on saturday we had a non dnd game night kind of specific huh prejudice one might say that included the game 7 wonders which was a lot of fun to play we did not use the feature about building your own wonder which i think is a shame and i blame losing because we were leaving out that major component i started off the game night with a three player round of smash brawl for the nintendo wii it was vaguely fun but not knowing what was going on 95 of the time made me feel like a 95 year old grand ma so i don t think i will ever play that game again i did have much better success as star fox than i did as donkey kong but at the end of the game i had 5 kills to my son s 75 and joel s 50 i had wanted to try out dominion but it is for 2 4 players and there were around seven of us other games choices were small world which i won the one time i played i think as ice barbarians or something that was a fun game which i would play again my favorite board game however is settler s of catan which we also didnt play there is only so much time in a game night the rest of the group went on to play a game i think might be called resistance where two of the five are spies and they go on missions to succeed or fail wil wheaton can tell ou more i had to go to bed but i heard the rest of them playing that game and they seemed to really like it tons of laughter and what not read full post game night semptember 12 raiding the raiders posted in dungeons and dragons game night games we play tagged dungeons and dragons fantasy role playing game hoard of the dragon queen on september 14 2014 leave a comment langredosa this week the weather broke and it was quite chilly so we celebrated with chili it was good we also continued our new 5th edition campaign with newly minted second level characters after protecting the town folk from the raiders in the cold light of day it was important to find out where they went and where they were going to attack next the characters gathered their mounts together an elephant a war camel a warhorse a mule and a riding panther they met some stragglers from the raiding party and slew them and took their stuff including shiny new leather cult of the dragon uniforms which they put on they then installed the gold dragonborn as a new general for the raiders and bluffed their way past the rear guard and into the camp the procesion wound its way through the huge raider camp towards the large leadership pavilion at the back of camp they strode up to the leaders tent and demanded an audience the leader langredose strode out it was the blue half dragon the party had fought the night before drung the raid and who tricked a blue dragon into thinking he was a big chicken sandwich many emotions flashed across the raid leader s face as he realized his foes were on his front stoop combat ensued the fight was quick and brutal and the party knocked him and his guard drake out only to find they were now stuck in the middle of the raider s camp with no way out what will happen next find out next week same time same place read full post dwarf fortress 2014 the magnifitude of landseal posted in dungeons and dragons dwarf fortress miscellaneous tagged bones dwarf fortress human giant invasion took place the bridge on september 13 2014 1 comment landseal dwarf fortress 2014 this is the story of landseal a dwarf fortress that overcame extreme conditions not only to survive but to prevail in year 125 seven dwarves from a clan known as the pink froth decided they would bring civilization to the mountains of universal truth so they set out with a wagon a cow a mule and a small flock of peacocks to build a fortress to stand the test of time my dwarves just love peacock eggs the area they chose was perfectly situated along the forested slopes of a mountain range with a wide valley at its feet cut by a fast flowing brook the dwarves made up of a pair of miners two masons two carpenters and a cook wasted no time setting up shop while the miners began an extensive moat system fed by the brook the wood cutters stockpiled a massive quantity of wood for future construction and made a few beds too the masons began chiseling doors tables and chairs while the cook planted farms turned the buckets of brought milk into cheese and began turning the brought fruit into wine coolers the fortress was humming along nicely that first summer and when the trade liaison from the pink froth arrived we had a few goods to trade mostly mechanisms for a few bushels of mushrooms we asked for wood fruit metal bars and beer for next year the trade caravan left and the dwarves settled in for a long but mild winter the canals outside the mountain home had been dug by this time but now began the more difficult task of digging the canals inside the mountain tragedy struck when lorbam fell into the well he was digging don t start at the bottom and work your way up lorbem start at the top and work down he was a pile of blood and bones in a deep well and a wall of water was coming his way as the canals began to fill his leg and arm were both broken and he was unconscious luckily a few migrants had recently showed up and one of them who had no experience or aspirations other than to raise a family was summarily promoted to chief medical dwarf he was given a room in the half completed hospital wing and provided with a bed for his first patient meanwhile the other miner continued mining and discovered that the mountain was riddled with gold veins hallelujah unfortunately there was no industrial metal found so everything had to be made of gold this is good in some ways but weapons and armor cannot be made from gold so the dwarves were getting wealthy but had little to defend themselves the hospital wing and initiation chambers the chief doctor was doing medical testing on lorbem the miner and eventually after much surgery and setting of bones the dwarf was released to bed rest his wounds developed an infection but that didn t stop him and he needed a crutch we built him a gold one the doctor presented it to him and lorbem took the golden crutch and hobbled off to work digging out gold the dwarf had been through the ringer and he was tired and thirsty by the time he mined out his first lump of gold so i gave him a chair at the head of the dining room which satisfied lorbem greatly six months later the infection was cleared up he was totally better with two scars and he became the fortress s most legendary miner so passed the first year but early on in the second year a message popped up stating that a human giant of unprecedented size had arrived and that the dwarves must fear for their lives landseal had the bare bones of a military with a squad of axe and hammer dwarves and a squad of crossbow dwarves but very few weapons and armor to go around the dwarves were basically a bunch of scantily clad wrestlers at this point and i did not see it ending well for them or for the fortress luckily it did not come to that as the giant chased the first dwarf it found right into a cage trap i can only imagine how this massive giant must have looked stuffed into a little bamboo cage but it worked the fortress was saved the giant cage was quickly installed in the dining room and glass blocks built up around it to insure that the giant wasn t going anywhere even if the bamboo failed about this time the elves showed up without much interesting to trade except for some fruits and vegetables an a gorgeous red cardinal in a cherry wood cage so i installed that across from the giant and now the dwarves have a menagerie in their dining hall incidentally the giant is not considered a prisoner but instead a caged guest who seems to have no complaints about his situation that was how year two progressed the grand dining hall with the caged giant of unparallelled size about this time the legendary miner lorbem hit a vein of tetrahidrite hallelujah copper and silver it may not be the best quality but at least armor and weapons can be made from copper and weapons from silver hello silver war hammers so began the long process of mining and smelting the ore in preparation for building up the military about this time we also discovered a large deposit of obsidian and so our craft dwarves started pumping out obsidian short swords crude but deadly awesome weapons it was late when suddenly at the worst possible moment the goblins invaded it was a siege i saved exited and went to bed all that day i spent my spare time wondering how i would overcome the goblin siege it is a simple thing really to escape if everything has been set up properly and some fortress aficionados will claim that defense against siege is the easiest disaster to avert simply by having the correct defenses in place such as locked doors cage traps and draw bridges one can effectively funnel the goblins to their doom landseal had all these defenses but such is the nature of warfare that it never takes place under optimal circumstances three times i reloaded that save file and three times the fortress was devastated within days of the siege note dwarf fortress is not meant to be exited without saving in other words there is no easy way to revert to previous saves other than with third party add ons also it goes against the spirit of the game to replay mistakes in hopes for a better outcome however there are exceptions to every rule and in this particular case i wanted to find a way overcome a seemingly impossible siege and so i used the rarely used command die to cause the game to exit without saving i do not do this lightly or often the first time i went for the brute force approach hunkering down was not possible due to a single door being ajar earlier i had noticed that one of my exterior doors was not the blue color that i favored and i opted to send a dwarf to replace the ugly red door with a proper dacite door the dwarf completed the work but left the red door on the ground blocking the new blue door from shutting completely thereby allowing an entrance for the goblins i set up a dump and put in an order for the dumping of the red door meanwhile i drafted every able bodied dwarf into the military and sent them to the area where the door was battle at landseal bridge the door never got fixed and the goblins made it over the moat before the bridge could be raised so i sent the mass of seventy naked dwarven wrestlers out to attack it was a bloodbath the fight took place on the bridge and over a dozen dwarves charged straight into the river like lemmings to drown when the battle with the 9 invaders was over only 22 dwarves remained alive exit without saving the second time i had the same door ajar problem so i set the dwarves to guard it but did not send them out in mass until the goblins had cleared the bridge this time the fight looked like it was won with over 50 dwarves surviving however the last goblin was some kind of hammer lord who slew or injured so many dwarves that by the time it was over i was once again down to twenty dwarves when all was said and done the hammer lord ended up being a dwarf named ngokang dreadfuldesserts who wore a crown of goblin bone an must have been some type of chief of the goblins dwarves were flung all over the yard by this maniac devastation ensued exit without saving this was looking bad i walked away i thought about it i had dinner the third time i took no chances and raised the drawbridge as soon as i could while leaving the military inactive so they would have time to do other things like remove doors ajar i had hesitated to do this before because there were dwarves outside the moat when the invasion took place and i didn t want to cut off any dwarves seeking shelter in the end it worked out because after the draw bridge closed the cut off dwarf realized he could climb the slope and jump down into the yard he did and escaped but three goblins followed him into the yard dwarves were going out one by one to confront the three goblins in the yard and dying this could not go on i sent out the army and they killed the goblins and i still had 50 dwarves left it was going to work however the twenty or so dwarves who died caused a huge amount of grief dead goblin and dwarf bodies littered the yard in front of the fortress there were not enough caskets and so bodies began to decompose one dwarf became so distraught that he wandered aimlessly breaking whatever crafted objects he came across about this time a fantastic set of events transpired a peasant rose from the ranks of the unwashed masses to claim hereditary rule over the fortress and to declare herself the countess of the county of landseal it was amazing and filled the fortress with unbridled joy and the dwarves all pitched in to give her as much help as possible to make her ascension the miracle it should be the expedition leader got a fey look in his eye and snuck off to the forge to create the first artifact a golden scepter for the countess as the countess and her procession made their way through the fortress they crossed the inner drawbridge to inspect the yard scene of the epic battle the angry dwarf who loved to break things reached the bridge at the same time he was fresh from the gore of the battlefield and somehow managed to destroy the drawbridge sending the newly minted contessa and her retinue into the moat to drown o the horror the fortress could not...