First Homebrew Campaign

 After defeating the handful of Fire Elementals, the party trekked on to find a man standing along the path to the peak. (Gave them an opportunity for a surprise round) The party rolled pretty low perceptions and just seen he was a red skinned man that looked bored. Emmley wanted to speak with the man, but he didn't care for what she had to say. As soon as they got in his line of sight, he started to hurl balls of fire at the party. The Efreeti had a few pet fire snakes that accompanied him to take some aggro off of him. The party was on a VERY thin path, roughly 10-15 wide in spots. Barbados the Barbarian and Rogar the Fighter took the front line while Niamh and Emmley struggled with vision from the back lines. Emmley decided to go prone and shoot through the large Rogar's legs landing numerous blows. Niamh hopped on Rogar's back and flung a few mistakable scorching rays at the snakes who are immune to the damage type.  Once the party managed to kill the snakes and half he

 After the grueling fight with Niamh's old clan, the PCs decided to head to the volcano that has started to spew bursts of fire ( not lava ). Storm clouds had appeared over the peak of the volcano, and ONLY over the peak of the volcano. Lightning began to strike into it, piquing the interest of the players. On their way to the shore closest to the volcano, they noticed a strange looking gilled creature skipping rocks. As they approached the child, they watched as he skipped multiple rocks dozens of times across the water. He introduced himself as Skipper, a nickname his clansmen had given him. Once Skipper was asked about the volcano, he began to seem worried. He explained to the party that the volcano had been acting sporadic the past few weeks, the cause unknown. Skipper advised the group to speak to the king. After drinking potions of water breathing they had previously looted, they began to swim down into the water. Rogar, of sushi (fish) descent, noticed he didn't require

After leaving the arena, the party decided to go to the town to the northwest (north of the Redwood Forest). The party noticed it was nothing but fey. Sprites, fairies, dryads, satyrs, etc. The sprites took Rogar away and began to play with him in the nearby river. The king then came out of his hut and yelled "ROGAR!" Rogar then tackled the king and began to lick his grizzled face. The party, confused, had many questions. The king said Rogar was raised in this town and was sent away to guard the forest they found him in when he was older. The king introduced himself as "Old Honey Paws" and immediately told the party to stay for the feast.    After eating, the party was taken aside by the king and asked for a skirmish between the king and his guards vs the PCs to see how strong Rogar has become.  During the battle everyone used nonlethal damage, as it was a friendly skirmish. Rogar ended up getting bitten and failed his save against the werebears bite. The PCs eventu

After leaving Rohas, the party went to the caves to the west of the town after seeing strange looking kids playing on the mountains. When entering, they encountered Shenron, and ancient green dragon. He told the party that everyone was a descendant of his great grandparents who were a dragon and dwarf. As the dragon was speaking, the mountain shook and giant boulders fell from the ceiling. He protected the party with his enormous wing and told them about the giants fighting on the peak.  The party climbed the mountain and seen 3 stone giant and 3 cloud giants attacking each other for the control of the mountain. After watching the battle conclude, the cloud giant was the only one standing. He took a meditative stance and began meditating. The party questioned the giant about what was going on. The giant told them that the stone giants were tired of having control of the lower mountains and wanted it all, and they have never been aggressive towards the cloud giants before. After exchan

 This was a fun one. It's what I call a "Scooby Doo Session". They had a rough time investigating and started to get flustered so I sped it along. I made this creature with the help of my DM from my other campaign. After every long rest, the monster steals stat points from all of the sinner/evil creatures. Had the players roll a d6 to see what stat would be randomly stolen.  The party entered town and noticed sickly people. They did some investigating and noticed there was no alcohol at the bar/inn. Just 'root beer'. It wasn't called that, but it was a sugary drink that the mayor makes from all the sugarcane farms surrounding the village.  After a few drinks, they went to their rooms. After they woke up all they knew is that they feel weaker. They went to visit the mayor about the drink, which they found nothing suspicious except his father is ill. They went to the docks to find the only fisherman was doing exceptionally well, and caught him in a lie that he b

 I wanted to do something with the characters backgrounds, or lack thereof, so I told Emmley that a feeling of 'home' was nearby. The party followed it and found a hidden cave leading to the underdark. They followed the cave path down and found a lone dwarf mining ore. As they were engaging in conversation, a Roper snatched him up, pulled him up, and munched on him.  Rogar and Emmley both failed their saves, got grappled and reeled toward its mouth. After they both got free, they ran away from it.  The party kept trucking forward and got to a huge plains-like area with giant mushrooms and tiny mushroom caps sticking out of the ground. Emmley managed to use hand signals to communicate with them to avoid battle. She taught the Myconids how to wave, and the hundreds of them waved as they continued down the path.    The party eventually came to a drow city where everyone there was under the impression that their "god" Lolth. Lolth was getting free food as sacrifices, that

Christmastime!!!!!!  The party noticed it snowing (roughly mid June) as they left the Redwood Forest. Emmley noticed tracks going to and from every city, with a small blood trail leading back to the south. They followed the blood trail that led them back to......... Schrute Farms. After following the trail to the basement of the farmhouse, they came to a huge opening with Christmas themed monsters roaming around, burning and carrying bodies. They followed the small path to a tiny corridor, and as they entered through the corridor, Emmley was the last to go through. As she passed the christmas tree, she was smacked by one of the branches, starting the encounter with the cursed christmas tree and the mimic presents.  In the next room was a hoard of evil elves (redcaps). The following room had a crooked spined creature in a Santa coat. Krampus.  The party engaged with Krampus and he ended up throwing Rogar in his sack. Emmley then attempted to cut the strap with her daggers to release Ro

The party decide with the closure of Baleek to venture out to the east. They soon came across a large village of trolls that they successfully sneaked past and came across a nearby farm, Schrute Farms.  They met Dwight and Rogar helped plow the fields, Niamh milked the cows, Emmley collected eggs and sheered the sheep.. kind of. She snipped the ear off of one. Dwight thanked them for their help and sent them on their way towards Wrine, the trading city. On their way they seen a Dire Bear which they snuck passed to enter town. As they entered, Emmley went to shop, and Niamh, the intimidator, intimidated the bear from attacking the town. As the bear left, they were greeted by the head of the guardsmen. She told the party that they were having a feast tonight for a guest and they were invited for helping protect the town. During the feast, they seen a man in white robes staring at them during the whole dinner. After confronting the head guardswoman, she informed them that he was from the

Debura sent the party to demolish the Kingdom of Robel from the inside out. He mentioned his butler, Sebas, had been there scouting the area. Upon entering Robel, they met up with the informant. Sebas told the party that the 5 advisors of the king run the kingdom while the king never leaves the castle. Once a week they meet, and they are in said meeting at the time. As the advisors left the castle and went their separate ways, the party followed one of them to the north east towards the docks.  Upon reaching the docks, they quickly learned Olson wasn't very friendly. As a shipment arrived, they searched the barrels and got a copy of the ledger. From what they could tell, nothing fishy was going on. Emmley wanted to throw one of the barrels into the water (failed her check) and fell in with the barrel. As she made it back to shore, she seen another advisor looking sketchy and go into a house. The party followed and found that the advisors were having their nightly card game. All of

The characters were once again called from their rooms, to speak with Debby in the arena. This time, he wasn't as playful. He asked the party to attack the city they began their journey in, Bebad. The king was corrupt and was stealing all of the money from the guild, taking more taxes than normal, and letting his people die. Debura was expelling the dragons from the orbs, sending them ahead to destroy Bebad. The party shortly headed out to the city.  Upon entering Bebad, they were immediately shot at and fought their way into the main castle. The guards gave the party a rough fight before they were inside the main castle, but they made their way inside while undead stormed the city, assisting in the takeover.  The party fought through archers, clerics, and the king.  As the king fell, a portal opened and a guardian from Baleek came through, throwing the corpses back through. 

Debura gave the party a quest. He had heard of a medicine man / potion maker in a nearby town and wanted them to bring him back to Baleek. The party agreed to assist and shortly took off. Once getting to the town, they noticed chaos. The villagers were trying to get ready for the next attack. They found the target they were looking for and quickly questioned him. The barbarian quickly went for brute force, and the small human resisted. He told them he needed to help protect the village and then he would do whatever they needed him to do, but this was his priority. The party took his keys to the hut, locked him in, and had Rogar keep guard. Shortly after, the howls began again. A set of dire wolves appeared and the party defended the city. Then a deeper, larger howl drew closer. A hellhound. Once the party had defeated the encounter, they quickly returned to Nfirea and returned to Baleek.  The next morning, Debby told the party he had presents for them.  Barbados, the barbarian: Sword

 After waking, the party was called upon by Debby by one of the maids, Entoma. Entoma escorted the party to the throne room. Debby asked the party if they knew what a dragon orb was (holds the soul of the dragon) and that he required them for something he had been planning. It was a perfect opportunity for the party to get more experienced. There were 4 in total, he knew where 3 of them were. He held the black orb. He asked the party to get the red and gold one. After telling the party the whereabouts of the orbs, and giving them a totem that would teleport them back to Baleek, the party left.  The party explored the first cave to find a couple of giants calling it home. After slaying the pair of hill giants, and almost killing Barbados, the party grabbed the red orb and headed to collect the second. Upon entering the cave where the second orb lay, the encountered a strange man standing over it. A portal opened behind the party, the strange man turned around and he looked a lot like De

 After entering town for their reward, the party noticed everyone was gone. Nothing was there, nobody in the streets. It was empty. The party got their reward, learned an army from the south was attacking and everyone in town was outside attempting to defend.  Emmley saw this as an opportunity to break into a first class citizens home and rummage through everything. Upon not finding "a stack of gold just sitting there" (her words) they exited to assist the townsfolk.  As the army appeared from the south, the army of Bebad readied. A shadow dragon flew overhead and used his breath weapon on the opposing army, taking out 75%+. Bebad's army was roughly 300 people to Robel's 1500+. Robel's army retreated, the dragonrider Axio landed, forced his way into the kings tent through his guards, and asked for the strongest of warriors. Otherwise, he would destroy Bebad. The king was at a loss for words, but he insured Axio that nobody would join him. Axio exited the tent and

 The party returned with Rogar to Bebad to receive their reward. Rogar did his best to poke his head inside the guild (he's roughly 8ft tall/8ft wide/8ft long). A bystanding half orc seen a monster poking his head in and decided to start swinging his great axe. The party talked him down and convinced him to join (my buddy). The party picked up Lana, a healer (homebrew class) to accompany as well. They picked up another quest to investigate the nearby cemetery. Guards have gone missing, civilians aren't returning after visiting graves. After accepting the quest, they headed out.  Upon reaching the cemetery gates, Rogar smashed through and the party followed. The interrupted a ritual that a hooded character was having. He summoned numerous zombies and a zombie ogre. The party had an easy time dealing with them all but just after the strange hooded man walked through a portal.      DM NOTES: I gave them a healer because.. well.. why not? I didn't want to kill them, and I wante

The party was running low on provisions, and decided to take a trip to the nearby town, Bebad. As the party entered town, they could immediately tell it was in chaos. The crier called out that all able bodies were needed by the adventurer's guild to rid the monsters that have taken control of numerous parts of the land. The group quickly made their way to the guild and after waiting half a day in line, they picked up their first quest. Monsters were sprouting out of the forest like flies, and asked to party to rid of them. After a few hour travel, the party came to the "Peculiar Forest". The party encountered a few snakes followed by a large snake. After taking out the slithering fiends, they heard rumbling from the forest. The fabled guardian. The group ensured their newly found friend if he was to assist them, they would come back periodically to check the forest.  Rogar looks like Hamsuke from Overlord, but looks like a walking talking salmon nigiri. Something that my

Niamh (Pronounced Niave) the Dragonborn Sorcerer (The Wifey) The ONLY backstory I actually received: "I watch from the darkness in the corner as the Sorcerer Daardenian Balasar slowly turns the pages of his dog-eared spellbook. Little does he know, that I have long coveted his magic and books for years now. I have snuck into his large hut many times to view what lies within the pages of those books. I have learned many small spells, and have seen many dark visions. The darkness calls to me. It has called to me since I was quite small, when the sorcerer murdered my family. I was the only one to escape. For years, I have lived on my own, feeding off of scraps of food that have been discarded. Clothed in ragged fragments of clothing. I have continued to thrive out of pure spite. But this evening, I will finally strike. I will kill the sorcerer and take this magical books. I make no sound as I slither from the darkness. In a flash, I am upon him. His hateful eyes lock onto my own as