From One Encounter Grows Seeds

Greetings!

We had our first game of the current adventure on Sunday ( (4/18/2010) and it was a rousing success! What kicked this adventure off is my daughters insisting on playing Dungeons and Dragons. The current system we are using is Swords and Wizardry Whitebox, with a few suppliments. It took us about ten minutes to setup the folding banquet table, and get all our gear out.

We stared off with a simple concept. Rose wanted to play a Warrior Princess named Raeow, and yes Rose created that name, and Lily is playing her personal guard Lucy. They are on a journey with two soldiers to their Aunt's palace. It took us about 15 minutes to roll up characters. Of course, if the younger one could write it would take less time. I joined two hirelings to their party, and we started with an encounter in the woods. It was simple enough, they were attacked by wolves. They made short work of them, and they decided they wanted to use the wolf meat to make jerky, and use the hides to make blankets. I figured it took them most of the day.

While they were curing the pelts and cooking the jerky, the soldiers that were with them discussed the area they were camped at. A dragon named Apple had a baby dragon named Eepie (yes, Rose named the dragons) and they lived near the east coast of Lake Deep. About eight leagues from her lair there was a nest of Goblins in an abandoned mine. They hatched a scheme to kidnap the baby dragon and use it as a weapon against the humans.

Raeow, being the free spirited warrior princess, decided to go rescue the baby dragon and return it to the momma dragon. Droping hints, Lucy deduced that the dragon must be a Black Dragon, the east coast of Lake Deep is mostly swamp land. Lucy is the daughter of a blacksmith, but is in posession of a book about Dragon Lore. Raeow sent one of the guards on to her destination to let her Aunt know of her plans.

Lily has a book from Wizards of the Coast on dragons, I don't recall off the top of my head what the name of the book is, she is seldom without it. Its not the draconomicon, its a book that has flavor test from the Draconomicon in it, written from the perspective of a researcher in Greyhawk. She loves that book, and I wanted to tie it into the adventure.

We ended the session with the girls starting for the swamp in Lake Deep. They want to stop off and discuss the situation with the mother dragon before going into the mines.

Lily named the NPC tagging along with them, he is Frederick, captain of the guard. He is an ill tempered 42 year old grizzled fellow that walks with a limp. A little bit of flavor makes all the difference.

So what started off as a simple encounter has grown into a massive adventure that should last us a few months. It may even make a pretty decent module some day to publish out there for others to use.

Most definately there will be more to follow.

Happy Adventuring,

Arthur H. Johnson II