Category: fun
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Faroth: some brief updates
The Singing Dragon Scales have been arrested, imprisoned, and escaped to South Faroth. The Ukulele Sword Band met them on the island. These stories have been getting written up and need a bit of editing. We have a new player, Rhys. He’s going to play a Sea Elf ranger, a former constable of Sing’jar, who…
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Faroth: Mandolin Sword Band brings home the bacon!
Seetaan Keeloak, a sea elf in his younger years, stares out at the brisk morning wind lightly frothing the tops of the waves in Bibbon bay. “I can’t wait to try out my frost bolt spell,” he mutters to himself. It’s not tool cold a day on the sea, I’ll go find something to do…
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Make New Human Language for Open Source
I was listening to Changelog episode 242 and when James Long describes an typical yet ideal experience of posting libre code to Github as an unexpected burden, it jumped out to me that Github, Google Code, Sourceforge, and a dozen other libre code hosting sites can step forward to change that burden by altering the…
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Faroth: Introducing the Ukulele Sword Band
Jesse Pickard GM’ed three new players on Feb 25. New players Zoe, Henry and Charlie created their characters: Zoe – Olivia the Half-elf/elf? Rogue Henry – Leo the Human Monk Charlie – Ominatia the Tiefling Bard The wide-eyed and inexperienced adventurers had met on the mainland before the orcs sacked Sing’jar and after a night…
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Faroth: No meetings 3/4, 4/1
There will be no D&D game meeting at BUF March 4 or April 1. The Reynolds will be unavailable, and very likely Jesse Pickard will be unavailable as well. If you would like to organize a D&D event for those days at another site, say, at your house, I can promote it here. Some ideas…
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Faroth: Origins of the South Faroth Sea Elves
The Marine Elves in the Sing’jar channel traded and fished for generations as a determined and resilient community after tragedy struck their ancestors. Hundreds of years ago, on the eve of the destruction of Faroth, forest elves in the foothills east of Sing’jar were forced from their homes by wildfires set by the fire giant…
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Faroth: Island Actors
We would not have a sea-faring economy without any local color. Faroth is unique of the local seas for the amount of dwarves near shore. While the local sea elves were stewarded by the minotaurs, the Forge Dwarves were stewarded by the ancient stone giant. With the defeat of the stone giant and the sacking…
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Faroth: The Mansion
The town of Faroth climbs up the foothills between Dowarblad and the Wur Peaks. If you follow the road from the pier you climb a brief slope and curve along the remains of wrecked boat hulls coated with barnacles. Old anchors and over-sized net stones line the edge of the road. As the rounded stones…
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Faroth: Repelling Bugbears
Jan 28 write-up by Liam. His characater is Lotheric, who appeared the episode following the courageous death of his first conflicted character that took on a bugbear in the Coliseum. The session began with the introduction of Liam’s new character, Lothric Emberwind, a young- ish soldier who had, before fleeing on the boat, been getting…
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