The latest game in the Dwarf King's Hold series is being kickstarted. It has a new title. It has higher quality map tiles. It features named heroes against the nameless hordes (rather than two nameless hordes of different races). It supports more than two players (the heroes can be split among players). In short, it looks a lot more like HeroQuest…
At the end of the fifth session, everyone agreed that they liked the game and wanted to continue it. Hopefully we’ll be able to pick it up next year! There will, however, be a couple of changes. With Elron out of the picture, at least as a star character, Tom has agreed to pick up the GM reins and let me pick up a PC to play with. I been pondering promoting…
Sarissa wakes up in a backstreet alchemists’ with Xathra watching over her. Xathra makes threats, discovers that Sarissa needs the blood of a von Rose and that the twins are the Archmage’s sons and tells Sarissa not to leave. The sorceress agrees and points out that she is in no condition to go anywhere. Stefan and Alec meet in the watchhouse and Stefan…
With Pira watching over them in the infirmary, the twins — Alec the mage and Andros the Nightstalker — reconcile. Elron challenges Stefan about him working with Dirk instead of executing him. Stefan informs him that he will end the trouble in the slums using whatever methods he sees fit and that violent suppression isn’t necessary. Stefan goes to see Pira in…
Episode 2 opens in Odson’s lab with the goblin supplying Elron with a bronze container of a disturbing design (which involved tentacles) containing a deadly plague that could spread quickly through the slums. Now all the Prince has to do is to have it delivered so that it can work its way through the mercenary ranks. Outside, on the battlements, Xathra…
In the inn where the Oriene, King of the Dwarfs, has made his base of operations, Elron is visiting the king in his bedchamber. He is pleased to learn that, as soon as Oriene finishes dying from the poison he received during the final battle, his son will take the Dwarfs away from the city (removing a challenger for power from the field of political battle…