Dicey Stories

When a collapsed bridge halts the caravan’s progress, Tric and Heppa conduct an investigation. Scene 8 Scene 9 Our character art by Del Borovic and the map we refer to (by me!) can be found here . Our music is sampled from Return to Wesnoth by Matthias Westlund (aka West), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 , part of The Battle for Wesnoth Project. Visit them at wesnoth.org . Need context? Jump to the st...

Mariah, Cleve, and Corazon reach Data Haven. Scene 16 Scene 17 Scene 18 Scene 19 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com . Need context? Jump to the start of the series!

Tric and Heppa make the acquaintance of some veteran mercenaries also serving as guards on the caravan. Scene 5 Scene 6 Scene 7 Our character art by Del Borovic and the map we refer to (by me!) can be found here . Our music is sampled from Return to Wesnoth by Matthias Westlund (aka West), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 , part of The Battle for Wesnoth Project. Visit them at wesnoth.org . Need contex...

Mariah and Cleve have their first close-up encounter with Chiron’s atmospheric miasma. Scene 13 Scene 14 Scene 15 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com . Need context? Jump to the start of the series!

As the caravan heads down the bank of the River Weldyn, Tric and Heppa search for a missing child. Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4 GM Notes This episode’s description of Falcon Sight was inspired by information from What It’s Like to Be a Bird by David Allen Sibley. In case you hadn’t guessed it yet, we really like birds. Also, this episode also introduces several new NPCs. Prior to starting this...

Mariah and Cleve protect Corazon Santiago from the Morgan Repossession Team. Scene 10 Scene 11 Scene 12 GM Notes The Stepdaughters of Chiron is an adaptation of the video game faction, Gaia’s Stepdaughters . It remains to be seen if they are as peaceful as their video-game equivalent (which itself takes inspiration from real-world organizations like Greenpeace), or if they truly are “ecoterrorists...

Tric and Heppa take care of their business with Damal and Heledd in South Tower. Scene 11 Scene 12 Scene 13 Scene 14 Scene 15 GM Notes Tracking currency is not something I particularly enjoy in RPGs. And yet, here I saddled my players with debt, which had the potential to push them away from story-oriented playing to money-grabbing. Why did I do this? Well, the simple reason was to continue giving...

Mariah and Cleve meet another human and learn some of the current situation on Chiron. Scene 7 Scene 8 Scene 9 GM Notes Corazon is perhaps the NPC most loosely inspired by the original video game character of the same name. Rather than have her focus be militarization as in the source game, I reinterpreted that at a more personal level as someone who is a bit reckless. Plus, early on, I wanted an...

Tric and Heppa reconnect with Heledd and Alric at the Parting Glass. Scene 7 Scene 8 Scene 9 Scene 10 Our character art by Del Borovic and the map we refer to (by me!) can be found here . Our music is sampled from Return to Wesnoth by Matthias Westlund (aka West), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 , part of The Battle for Wesnoth Project. Visit them at wesnoth.org . Need context? Jump to the start of th...

The first extraterrestrial lifeforms that Mariah and Cleve encounter are less than happy to see them. Scene 4 Scene 5 Scene 6 GM Notes During our Session Zero, our group made a list of things we either really wanted to have or really wanted to avoid in the campaign. Both players were interested in something supernatural to fit into the sci-fi setting. For Cleve, this translated to an ethereal anim...

Tric and Heppa meet with Thrandolil about their next project for him and then head back to South Tower. Scene 4 Scene 5 Scene 6 Our character art by Del Borovic and the map we refer to (by me!) can be found here . Our music is sampled from Return to Wesnoth by Matthias Westlund (aka West), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 , part of The Battle for Wesnoth Project. Visit them at wesnoth.org . Need contex...

Mariah and Cleve leave Earth aboard Unity , seeking a new life on the planet Chiron in the Alpha Centauri system. But something goes wrong on the way there. Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 GM Notes You might be wondering why I set this campaign 30 years after planetfall rather than coincident with it. By setting it later, the world has already had some chance to develop into factions that the PCs have to...

High Lord Volas commissions Tric and Heppa to undertake a task for him on their upcoming journey. Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 GM Notes High Lord Volas is a character from the Battle for Wesnoth mainline campaign, Eastern Invasion. The assassination attempt we refer to is from Scenario 4a of that campaign. He does not have much dialogue in that, so his personality is mainly my invention here. His physi...

Tric and Heppa exchange information with Kachen before he leaves on his own job for Thrandolil. Scene 4 Scene 5 Scene 6 Scene 7 Our character art by Del Borovic and the map we refer to (by me!) can be found here . Our music is sampled from Return to Wesnoth by Matthias Westlund (aka West), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 , part of The Battle for Wesnoth Project. Visit them at wesnoth.org . Need contex...

Jump to Arcs | Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Addendum Open Datalinks. Subject: Honest Assessment of Earth in 2100. Result: The few billion people and perhaps half as many kind souls don't agree on much, but they do agree that Earth is ruined. The environment. The politics. The war. The Mistake. Sure, there are pockets where things are mostly okay, if you've got the credits. But you know it's go...

The Estbryn Forest council decides Kachen’s fate. Scene 2 Scene 3 GM Notes I really enjoy the social components of the Genesys system. I like learning characters’ motivations and leaning on them when I can. I like the way social combat helps flesh out an exchange and gives players an opportunity to both gain and lose ground simultaneously. I was excited to have the chance to try out this different...

Tric and Heppa take a stab at defending Kachen before High Lord Volas and the council. Scene 1 GM Notes This arc contains spoilers for the Battle for Wesnoth campaigns Eastern Invasion and Northern Rebirth. This arc uses a Genesys supplement called I Declare! Adjudicated Social Encounters for Genesys by Micah-Shalom “FatCrab” Kesselman. I do my best to explain its mechanics to my players at the st...

Heppa and Tric continue their fighting retreat as the undead menace approaches the population center of Estbryn Forest. Scene 19 Scene 20 GM Notes In this arc, we see a few new units from the Battle for Wesnoth video game. The Revenant is one of those units. The Wolves , too. In the video game’s campaign Secrets of the Ancients, you can raise Wolves into Walking Corpses, so that was what inspired...

The Battle for Estbryn Forest begins with a skirmish between elves and undead in a wooded gully. Scene 17 Scene 18 Our character art by Del Borovic and the map we refer to (by me!) can be found here . Our music is sampled from Return to Wesnoth by Matthias Westlund (aka West), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 , part of The Battle for Wesnoth Project. Visit them at wesnoth.org . Need context? Jump to th...

The elves of Estbryn Forest prepare to face a new threat. Scene 14 Scene 15 Scene 16 Our character art by Del Borovic and the map we refer to (by me!) can be found here . Our music is sampled from Return to Wesnoth by Matthias Westlund (aka West), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 , part of The Battle for Wesnoth Project. Visit them at wesnoth.org . Need context? Jump to the start of the series!

Heppa and Tric deal with the crisis caused by Fenowin’s rash response to Kachen. Scene 10 Scene 11 Scene 12 Scene 13 GM Notes Damal’s treatise on the four elements was inspired by a thread on Dunefolk Lore that I read on the Battle for Wesnoth forums here . The part that particularly caught my attention was this: Four elemental forces each bleed through into the material plane. The Sun bleeds thro...

Kachen’s first evening in Estbryn Forest passes uneventfully, but the following morning there are some problems. Scene 7 Scene 8 Scene 9 Our character art by Del Borovic and the map we refer to (by me!) can be found here . Our music is sampled from Return to Wesnoth by Matthias Westlund (aka West), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 , part of The Battle for Wesnoth Project. Visit them at wesnoth.org . Ne...

Tric escorts Kachen to meet with Thrandolil, who has been conducting research with Heppa. Scene 4 Scene 5 Scene 6 Our character art by Del Borovic and the map we refer to (by me!) can be found here . Our music is sampled from Return to Wesnoth by Matthias Westlund (aka West), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 , part of The Battle for Wesnoth Project. Visit them at wesnoth.org . Need context? Jump to the...

As spring advances, Heppa gets some advice from older elves about romancing humans while Tric works the Estbryn Forest border patrol. Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 GM Notes This arc contains spoilers for the Battle for Wesnoth campaigns Eastern Invasion and Northern Rebirth. Our character art by Del Borovic and the map we refer to (by me!) can be found here . Our music is sampled from Return to Wesnoth...

Tric spends time growing closer to his father and his bird, while Heppa works on her relationships with her sister and Alric. Scene 11 Scene 12 Our character art by Del Borovic and the map we refer to (by me!) can be found here . Our music is sampled from Return to Wesnoth by Matthias Westlund (aka West), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 , part of The Battle for Wesnoth Project. Visit them at wesnoth.o...