Dicey Stories

Tric and Heppa learn more about Kachen’s recent activities and his past with Rhaessa. Scene 6 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 . Need context? Jump to...

Mariah holds a wide-ranging conversation with Deirdre’s son Jack. Scene 3 Scene 4 Scene 5 Scene 6 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com . Need context? Jump to the start of the series!

Alric, Heppa, Tric, and Glammur entertain themselves at South Tower’s After Harvest Festival. Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4 Scene 5 GM Notes The players really enjoyed the Full Bloom festival early in our campaign, so I decided to give them a chance to experience another. Inspiration came from a lot of places. For one, there are the youtube videos by Pupsi where he carves vegetables into ocarina...

Cleve and Xiao meet with the mysterious rangers. Scene 1 Scene 2 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com . Need context? Jump to the start of the series!

Additional allies arrive to join the fight against shadow mage Godol and his Rat confederates. Scene 21 Scene 22 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...

The Prophet of Chiron and some followers pay Mariah a visit at the hospital. Scene 39 Scene 40 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com . Need context? Jump to the start of the series!

The elves and their allies clash with Godol the shadow mage and his. Scene 20 GM Notes Most of the NPCs in the fight today are units from the Battle for Wesnoth video game that we’ve already seen in earlier encounters, like Ruffians , Shadow Mages , and Efa the Bandit . The only new one here is Tric’s merfolk friends, who are based on the Netcaster line. Our character art by Del Borovic and the ma...

Cleve and Marina secure proper care for Mariah. Scene 35 Scene 36 Scene 37 Scene 38 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com . Need context? Jump to the start of the series!

Rhaessa and Heledd join Tric and Heppa in their investigation of necromancers underneath South Tower. Scene 17 Scene 18 Scene 19 GM Notes The exploration of the space under South Tower was heavily inspired by combat maps from the Battle for Wesnoth video game. Cave terrain frequently has mushroom tiles, mining cart tracks, and old fortifications. And if you see a big stretch of water, you can be p...

With the help of a mysterious ranger, Mariah’s friends keep him out of harm’s way. Scene 34 GM Notes Rangers, in our game, are actually based on embassy guards. Some countries require their guards to all have a uniform appearance, even down to strict height limits. Inspiration really can come from anywhere. Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com . Need context? Jump...

Tric catches up some with Kachen and gets to know the new server at the Parting Glass. Scene 13 Scene 14 Scene 15 Scene 16 Note: This episode uses an adaptation of our Fight Night rules. Find them  here . GM Notes In this episode, we finally get a scene that closely resembles our campaign artwork! When we commissioned the piece from Del Borovic the tableau was chosen simply to get a bunch of our m...

The briar beasts make their move to consume Mariah. Scene 33 Note: The battle started in today's episode continues in next week's. From a writing standpoint, it made sense to combine Mariah's viewpoint into one scene, and the exterior viewpoint into another. So if you read this write-up, you'll get some spoilers for next episode and you'll also notice things from this episode are missing if Mariah...

Tric recruits the white mage Rhaessa to help with whatever foul magics are afoot beneath South Tower. Scene 12 GM Notes In the Battle for Wesnoth video game, there are undead units whose attacks have the plague quality. Any unit killed by one of these rises again as a Walking Corpse —unless they were standing in a village when it happened. I’ve taken that video game mechanic and translated it into...

Mariah is finally reunited with his friends, but that doesn’t solve all his problems. Scene 27 Scene 28 Scene 29 Scene 30 Scene 31 Scene 32 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com . Need context? Jump to the start of the series!

Kachen shares a little of what he was up to over the summer. Scene 10 Scene 11 GM Notes In the Battle for Wesnoth video game, the only mainline unit with teleportation is the Silver Mage . They are able to move between villages that their side controls. In terms of the battle map, that means any villages flying their side’s flag. I’ve translated that mechanic into the bit of magical philosophy we...

All of Dr. Yerin Gupta’s plans come crashing down around her. Scene 23 Scene 24 Scene 25 Scene 26 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 deal with a late night intruder. 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 . Need context? Jump to the start of the series!

Briar beasts run rampant in the Garden of Chiron. Scene 20 Scene 21 Scene 22 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com . Need context? Jump to the start of the series!

Tric reconnects with some of the Dunefolk of South Tower, but neither his mother nor Damal are terribly impressed with him. 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 wesno...

Mariah remonstrates with his captor. Scene 18 Scene 19 Note: In this episode, you’ll once again hear us using social material and maneuver mechanics that come from a Genesys supplement called I Declare! Adjudicated Social Encounters for Genesys by Micah-Shalom “FatCrab” Kesselman. You can find it on the Genesys Foundry at DriveThruRPG here:  https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/349232/I-Declare . ...

Upon returning to the Parting Glass, Heppa delivers to Alric the message from his parents in Weldyn. Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 This arc contains spoilers for the Battle for Wesnoth campaigns Eastern Invasion and Liberty. There are also references to Dead Water. 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 Matthia...

Mariah’s reunion with his old friend Deirdre does not go as smoothly as Cleve’s reunion with Roze did. Scene 13 Scene 14 Scene 15 Scene 16 Scene 17 GM Notes When we describe Mariah’s view of the sunset-lit world as featuring diamonds, and an ocean of islands, and a forest deep and silent, we’re quoting there from Mariah’s theme song, which is “Rivers in the Light” by Tide Lines . Cleve’s player do...

Tric and Heppa bid farewell to Terwaen’s household with several revealing conversations. Scene 15 Scene 16 Scene 17 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 t...

Marina takes Cleve and Mariah to the Stepdaughters of Chiron council building. Scene 8 Scene 9 Scene 10 Scene 11 Scene 12 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com . Need context? Jump to the start of the series!

Tric duels Dame Merriver. Scene 14 Note: This episode uses our Fight Night rules. Find them  here . GM Notes The Battle for Wesnoth video game inspired a lot of specific events and NPCs in our tabletop campaign. I leaned heavily on the closing events of the Eastern Invasion campaign, even quoting from the epilogue where Gweddry and Owaec are granted their rewards. But one specific part of the vide...