Tag: Fantasy

Ministrations of the Wayward Mage

Ministrations of the Wayward Mage

I didn’t explicitly state it before, but if anyone gives a shit, Luke is a Wild Magic Sorcerer. Whenever he casts spells, there’s a chance for something random to happen. Maybe good, maybe bad, maybe neither!

As his Barovian adventure went on, he pursued some different paths. Mechanically, this was represented by multi-classing. This decision was much more driven by narrative, however. (Trust me, Sorcerer/Wizard is not by any stretch an ‘optimal’ choice.)

This scene took place after a wild magic surge-filled battle at a winery. Luke takes some time to reflect in the church of the Morninglord, at the edge of the small village of Vallaki.

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Hot Hands Luke

Hot Hands Luke

Luke Hartman is a character I play in a Curse of Strahd campaign that’s been going on for over a year now. All I knew when we started playing was that he was looking for someone. I kind of… found his history out as the campaign went on. Here’s what it eventually coalesced into:

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The Hero of Thundertree

The Hero of Thundertree

Early on in the campaign, we had a guest player jump in for just one session. I wrote this synopsis for him afterward, in case he wanted to take that information and just let me know (in broad strokes) how he’d like his character’s story to continue after being separated from the party. I’ve cleaned it up a little to make it more, uh… story-like.

 

Ryan the Archer always thought being a hero would be pretty cool. When he’d heard that there was a green dragon set up in the nearby abandoned village of Thundertree, he figured getting rid of it would be a pretty good way to prove how heroic he was. Knowing that he probably couldn’t dispatch of the beast on his own, he went to the frontier town of Phandalin to enlist aid. That’s where he encountered a group of adventurers who said they were heading to Thundertree anyway to speak to a druid named Reidoth.

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