D&D Encounters : Search for the Diamond Staff - Session 0 RECAP

SESSION 0 RECAP
Cinnaelos’Cor Festival

If there’s one thing the Dalelands aren’t known for it’s throwing a great party. But once every leap year the elves, men, nobles, peasants, farmers, and adventurers all get together to celebrate Shieldmeet. Commemorating the pact of peace made between humans and elves centuries ago, we celebrated this holiday at the shop with games, merriment, character creation, and background/world building!

There were small games to be played, prizes to be won, trivia to be stumped by, and interesting characters to meet! Special prizes went out to raffle winners Loris and Neil, who each won a shiny new set of dice, and to Brandon, who won a copy of Ed Greenwood Presents: Elminster’s Forgotten Realms. Congrats to these hearty folk of the Dalelands!

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Posted: June 14th, 2013 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

Beyond The Screen : D&D Encounters - Storm Over Neverwinter : Ask Team DM, part 2

Beyond The Screen – Ask Team DM – SOM, part 2 from Twenty Sided Store on Vimeo.

Chris Wood helps me answer more questions for ASK THE DM, from the Storm Over Neverwinter D&D Encounters Season.

We also talk a bit about Session 0 for Search for the Diamond Staff and the Free RPG /D&D Game Day Pre-quel Adventure – Vault of the Dracolich coming up on Sat 6/16/2013!

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Posted: June 14th, 2013 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

Beyond The Screen : D&D Encounters - Storm Over Neverwinter : Ask Team DM, part 1

1. Do you actually read the adventure and do you care if we die or not. Or what do you do to make sure we know what’s up every week because I missed two weeks and had no idea what was going on.

(Lauren) Every DM is expected to have read the entire module before Session 0. We have a DM meeting at the start of every season where we throughly discuss the entire story and plot.

Death is part of D&D. No Twenty Sided Store DM seeks out to intentionally kill PCs (in fact they actively try not to), but sometimes players swing first and ask questions later. There are consequences in every decision a DM or a player makes, for good or bad. If every fight was a walk in the park, they would be much less interesting.

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Posted: June 6th, 2013 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : Storm Over Neverwinter, Session 7 RECAP

Storm Over Neverwinter Session 7 Recap
by Giaco Furino

You weren’t even supposed to make it this far, you know? Chartilifax, that giant green dragon who spit madness and poison at you and your friends, was supposed to take care of you. He was supposed to chew you up and spit you out! But you sent him howling into the storm-soaked night, and you made it to the second floor of the Cathedral at Helm’s Hold.

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Posted: June 5th, 2013 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : Storm Over Neverwinter, Session 6 RECAP

by Giaco Furino

Sometimes, as an adventurer, you witness things that will stay with you for the rest of your life. This past session, the adventurers saw just that. A handsome green-skinned elf with lush, golden hair stepped up to them, cracked his knuckles, and shred his own body apart.

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Posted: May 28th, 2013 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : Storm Over Neverwinter, Session 5 RECAP

Beyond the Screen : Episode #5 – Storm Over Neverwinter, Session 5 Recap from Twenty Sided Store on Vimeo.

Session 6 Recap

You don’t remember what it’s like to have dry clothing. It’s been raining so hard and so consistently, this terrible storm over Neverwinter, that all you can do is squint your eyes and shiver in your soaked socks. But you seem to have made some headway after you routed the cult of Asmodeus during the “night of madness.”

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Posted: May 21st, 2013 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : Storm Over Neverwinter, Session 4 RECAP

Beyond The Screen : Episode 4 : D&D Encounters Storm Over Neverwinter – Session 4 Recap from Twenty Sided Store on Vimeo.

by Giaco Furino
Storm Over Neverwinter Session 4 Recap

The acrid smell of smoke lingers in the evening air as the skies open and unleash buckets of rain in a torrential downpour. The screams and cries of townsfolk ring out amidst the blasts of the guards’ horns, the cracks of lightning, and the rumbles of thunder. Chaos erupts around the city of Neverwinter. The mad and marked are lashing out! The general population devolves into looters, thieves, and thugs. Who can help our party of adventurers make headway in this chaos?

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Posted: May 15th, 2013 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : Storm Over Neverwinter, Session 3 RECAP

by Giaco Furino

The sky is dark and filled with the rumbling of thunder. In the distance a crack of lightning brightens the horizon. The storm over the tumultuous city of Neverwinter looms ever closer. In the midst of this historic storm, the likes of which have never been seen by the port town, cultists of Asmodeus kidnap and seem to brainwash parts of the population. Times are tough in the toughest city this side of the Silver Marches.

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Posted: May 8th, 2013 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : Storm Over Neverwinter, Session 2 RECAP

by Giaco Furino

The whipping winds of the looming storm battered back and forth the broken doors of Lady Nidris’ home. The heroes, tasked with taking her safely back to her abode after an attempted kidnapping, began this session searching her ruined apartment for clues as to where her son was taken. The culprits seemed clear: giant markings of Asmodeus were branded and painted in blood all over her home. This was clearly the work of the Asmodeus cultists the heroes tangled with in Session One.

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Posted: May 1st, 2013 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : Storm Over Neverwinter, Session 1 RECAP

Welome to the Twenty Sided Store’s Beyond the Screen : Episode 3 and a written account by Giaco Furino.

In this video we will recap the first week of our new season of D&D Encounters : Storm Over Neverwinter.

You can join us every Wednesday at 7:00pm.
Joining me today is Neil as Sir Nathan Fairweather.

Beyond The Screen : Episode 3 : D&D Encounters Storm Over Neverwinter – Session 1 Recap from Twenty Sided Store on Vimeo.

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Posted: April 24th, 2013 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

Beyond the Screen : Episode #2 : Ask Team DM

Lauren Bilanko with Guest DM Giaco Furino answer the second set of questions for Team DM from our last season of D&D Encounters, Against the Cult of Chaos. We also announce the winners for Players Choice Awards and recap Session 0 : Storm Over Neverwinter!

BehindTheScreen : Session #2 : Ask Team DM from Twenty Sided Store on Vimeo.

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Posted: April 17th, 2013 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

Beyond The Screen : Episode #1 : Ask Team DM

Every Wednesday at Twenty Sided Store we play D&D Encounters. We have an average of 30 players and a team of 6 DMs running tables each season. At the end of every season I hand out a feedback questionnaire to our players. This season one of the questions I asked was, “If you had one question for Team DM what would it be?” and so I present you with this video as an attempt to answer those questions.

Behind The Screen : Session 1 : Ask Team DM from Twenty Sided Store on Vimeo.

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Posted: April 6th, 2013 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : Escaping the Arrow - Session Recaps

Session 1

Entry by Leo Jenicek

Except from the Journal of Lord Gil-Thalion

Date… That’s bit of mystery at present, as I do seem to be escaping from a bally odd prison. Ormanel, normally I would be narrating my exciting adventures to you, and you’d be putting a bit of panache on the proceeding, as if my adventurer were not as adventurous as adventures should be! (Hmmm… Perhaps you were right, this writing is dashedly difficult! Well, I’ll give it the old “What Ho!” and press on.)

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Posted: January 30th, 2013 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : War of Everlasting Darkness : Sessions 5 - 8 Recap

Session 5 Recap Raffle Winner is Rich Stein

Entry 1 : by Wesley Rose

Sometimes the choices we make are not nearly as black and white as we would be led to believe. I was given this curse in an act of villainy, but if I can use it to sway the battle between darkness and light, even though I cannot enjoy the latter, I will do all my immortal body will allow me.

I am a product of darkness, but I fight not for it.

-Hamilton Moor
Quoted some years after the War of Everlasting Darkness

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Posted: December 19th, 2012 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : War of Everlasting Darkness : Session 4 Recap

Session 4 Recap Raffle Winner is Bill Roundy!

Entry 1 : comics by Bill Roundy

Entry 2 : by Leo Jenicek

an ad found in the Citadel Adbar Gazette

CREATIVE ENERGY REQUIRED

Embrace the spirit of DIY with this original Keep occupying a strategic underground position. This charming stone tower features 2 floors with kitchen, master bedroom, guest(minion)room and open living space. Cleverly hid secret lair lies just underneath, perfect for parties, rituals or storage. There’s plenty of potential for the savvy investor or first time fortress buyer. (Note: this property comes as is, if you are squeamish about Drugar bodies or the remains of the undead, this may not be the place for you. But you could arm your troops with the arms and armor of the fallen at NO EXTRA CHARGE!)

All inquires should be sent to the court of King Harbromm, Citadel Adbar

Only serious offers will be considered.

No Drow need apply

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Posted: November 28th, 2012 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : War of Everlasting Darkness : Session 3 Recap

Session 3 Recap Raffle Winner is Leo Jenicek!

Entry 1: Art by Ben Serna

Entry 2: by Sean Almon

From the shoulder of my charge, I beheld the great siege of Mithral Hall. Behind the sounds of marching patrols, our traveling band could hear a solitary horn beckoning the enemy troops toward action. The
young Locke has come to fully embrace the flux of his lycanthropy curse and used it to great advantage as we attacked the closest commander tent. Having retrieved a map and burning the place down, we destroyed the accursed horn before making our way toward one of the “secret” entrances to the Hall.

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Posted: November 19th, 2012 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : War of Everlasting Darkness : Session 2 Recap

Session 2 Recap Raffle Winner is Leo Jenicek!

Entry 1: by Daniel Alicea

*The following is an excerpt taken from the second entry of Andrest Locke’s Journal detailing his exploits during the War of Ever Lasting Darkness. Late Spring, 1484 DR.

…They screamed and spat in our faces as they pushed the three of us to our seats. The challenger sets himself down into the stony, arena pit. I see the signs of savagery all over – blood on the walls; crunched bones and skulls detail the dark-shaded floor. Standing opposite of Rangar in the pit was a scaly angry reptile: a drake. One of his eyes were missing, the other shut closed and scarred. It was blind, yet I had the feeling it could smell out its victim.

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Posted: November 12th, 2012 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : War of Everlasting Darkness : Session 1 Recap

Session 1 Recap Raffle Winner is Bill Roundy!

Entry 1 : Comic by Bill Roundy

Entry 2 : by Rich Stein

While scholars across the realms are still piecing together much of the details of what we now know as the War of Everlasting Darkess, one archaeological find has become a wealth of information. In the ruins of modest Temple of Kelemvor located within the Glimmerwood (exact location unknown) a collection of letters were discovered. The correspondences are all addressed to one Father Arneston, believed to be the high priest of the temple, and also a ranking member of the Order of Doomguides. The letters are penned by a young Paladin in this order, one Valara Solrei, who provides unprecedented insight into the events leading up to the War of Everlasting Darkness…

Greetings Father Arneston,

I write this to you from a well-kept room in the Whistling Stag Inn, in Quaevarr. I am sure you know of it well, it is not more than a few days journey. I followed the rumors of a restless spirit back to this village and while the rumors held true, what I found went far beyond the mere presence of an undying soul. The specter was himself once a knight, a paladin perhaps, of the long dead god of guardians, Helm.

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Posted: November 7th, 2012 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : War of Everlasting Darkness : Character Creation

ADVENTURE BACKGROUND
Steel yourself against the darkness with this season of D&D Encounters. War of Everlasting Darkness kicks off a few months after the events of Council of Spiders, and things are looking grim for the Forgotten Realms. As agents of Lolth succeed in acquiring artifacts of great magical power, the spinning of the Demon Weave is at hand. Darkness spreads across the land and it will take all the battle prowess, cunning, negotiation, and luck our heroes can muster to save the day. This season gives players a taste of high fantasy, with a sweeping story taking place all around the Forgotten Realms that spans the length of two years. Level up after each session, and take your hero to the brink of war and the edge of the world.

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Posted: October 24th, 2012 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Lair Assault : Kill the Wizard

Join us select Saturdays October – November!
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This Lair Assault is a challenge for characters of 8th Level. The Character Creation PDF has the specific rules information you will need for this encounter.

BACKGROUND
The noble houses of Menzoberranzan share a common enemy. An elf wizard has built a drow construct that he plans to release into the Underdark. Your job is to kill the construct and kill the wizard… and bring victory and glory to your house.

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Posted: October 9th, 2012 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : Council of Spiders : Session 5 RECAP

To walk apart from House and Queen is to walk into the grave.

ADVENTURE RECAP:
Our heroes reached the inner chamber of the council’s compound, where they learned that the Council of Spiders had been deceived. Hoshtar Xorlarrin was indeed a captive, held by a shadowy assassin who had killed two other, more senior members of the Council. The assassin thanked them for starting the war in earnest, but they overcame him and freed Hoshtar, who explained what the Council of Spiders is and what the assassin was up to…

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Posted: October 3rd, 2012 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : Council of Spiders : Session 4 RECAP

Watch all about, warily, and the Goddess may give you the gift of continued life…

ADVENTURE RECAP:
Our heroes were tasked with finding one of the members of the tribunal who assigned them their first mission. They infiltrated a hideout used by wizards of the Council of Spiders, looking for their ally Hoshtar Xorlarrin, thought to be held captive there. All the members of the Council of Spiders they met seemed to believe that Hoshtar was there for a peaceful meeting. At the end of the session, the party descended a stairway into the cellar beneath the hideout and ran into male drow, holding a rapier and glaring…

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Posted: September 25th, 2012 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : Council of Spiders : Session 2 & 3 RECAP

Those who watch their backs meet death from the front…

ADVENTURE RECAP
Along the way towards the Sezz’ia outpost, a group of svirfneblin ambushed our heroes. Interacting with their small foes in the heat of battle, the heroes discovered that someone had warned them of their imminent arrival. After overcoming the attack, they found a cowardly goblin hiding in one of the nearby tunnels, who revealed that he was paid to deliver the message to the svirfneblin, and that he knows only that it was a drow female whose face he never saw.

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Posted: September 18th, 2012 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : Council of Spiders : Session 1 RECAP

You’re a drow, evil reigns, Lolth is supreme, station is everything, and secrets are currency…

ADVENTURE RECAP:
Our heroes traveled from Menzoberranzan toward an abandoned Sezz’ia outpost and happened upon the grisly scene of drow bodies strewn about a cavern along the way. Confronted with the same monsters responsible for the massacre, the adventurers dispatched of them and encountered the badly injured survivors of the last party sent to the outpost, who reveal that one of their number betrayed them and left them for dead…

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Posted: September 4th, 2012 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : Council of Spiders : Character Creation

Everything you need to get started is in this packet:
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Character Backstories

ADVENTURE BACKGROUND:
Menzoberranzan is known and feared among even the heartiest folk of the Savage Frontier and the Sword Coast. It may not be the greatest city of drow in Faerun, but it might well be the most famous due to its activities in the surface world.

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Posted: August 29th, 2012 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : Web of the Spider Queen : RECAP 13

Comic by Bill Roundy

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Posted: August 15th, 2012 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : Web of the Spider Queen : RECAP 12

Comic by Bill Roundy

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Posted: August 8th, 2012 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : Web of the Spider Queen : RECAP 11

Comic by Bill Roundy

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Posted: August 1st, 2012 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : Web of the Spider Queen : RECAP 10

Comic by Bill Roundy

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Posted: July 25th, 2012 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Encounters : Web of the Spider Queen : RECAP 9

SESSION 9



Comic by Bill Roundy

community |kəˈmyo͞onitē|
Noun (pl. communities)

1. A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals: the sense of community that building characters, plundering dungeons, and saving the world together can provide.

Phrases
‘the twenty sided community’ the amazing people of 20ss considered collectively

ADVENTURE RECAP
At the gates of the drow outpost of Zadzifeirryn, our heroes convinced a pair of ogre slaves to let them pass. However, before they managed to make their way safely through the gates, they were attacked by a contingent of guards. Overcoming their adversaries, the adventurers made their way into the twisting caverns of Zadzifeirryn’s outskirts, finding an abandoned building to rest in for the night…

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Posted: July 23rd, 2012 | Tagged: Dungeons and Dragons