Characters#

• Review the characters

Characters#

Strong Start#

• After exiting the church, you see a flash of light as the Arbiter teleports to a spot high above the great oak tree, her wings unfurling with a thunderous clap that sends a shockwave through the town. Her divine aura emanates outwards, causing the town square below her to glow with a brilliant golden light. With a swift motion, the Arbiter unsheathes her greatsword, its gleaming blade pulsing with divine energy. She raises it high above her head, and in a voice that echoes through the town, she intones an ancient incantation in celestial. As she finishes the incantation, the blade of her sword shatters into a thousand shards of light, each one piercing the darkness like a bolt of lightning. The shards arc outwards, each seeking out a shadow monster with deadly precision. In an instant, the creatures are destroyed. The Arbiter lowers her sword, the shards reforming into the sword’s original shape with a brilliant flash of light. As she sheathes her weapon, the divine aura around her begins to fade as the darkness returns. True to the angel’s word, the town is now safe from the monsters, but the darkness returns.

Scenes#

• Leave the temple to the dusk lord
• Encounter barrier near the forest
• Journey to the sages grotto
• Hag gives the players nightmares
• Shimmer wood faeries
• Darkling camp encounter

Secret and Clues#

Check off when revealed

• The barrier created by Dusk Lord as punishment for disrespect
• Serenity is a night hag
• Serenity’s lair is in the elven forest
  • Shadows seem abnormally gaunt and sometimes move on their own as though alive.
  • Creatures are transported to a harmless but eerie demiplane filled with shadowy forms, waxy corpses, and cackling. The creatures are trapped there for a minute or two, and then returned to the place where they vanished from.
  • Intelligent creatures see hallucinations of dead friends, family members, and even themselves littering the hag’s realm. Any attempt to interact with a hallucinatory image causes it to disappear.
• Vidrir has wielded [[Summer’s Edge (orig)]]

Fantastic Locations#

• Build Fantastic [[Locations]]

Link to fantastic locations. Use the @ symbol to internally link to a Location page.

• [[Vidrir’s Grove]]
• Shimmer wood
• Darkling camp
• Corrupted forest

NPCs#

• Review [[NPCs]]

NPC link. Use the @ symbol to internally link to an NPC page.

• Vidrir
• Serenity
• Arbiter

Monsters#

• [[Darkling]]
• [[Darkling Elder]]
• [[Pixie]]
• [[Giant Rat]]

Deadly Encounter Benchmark#

Calculate the deadly encounter benchmark by adding together all character levels and dividing by 2 if they’re 5th level or above or divide by 4 if they’re 1st to 4th level. An encounter may be deadly if the sum total of monster challenge ratings is greater than half the sum total of character levels or one quarter of character levels if the characters are 4th level or below.

Treasure#

• Donjon Random Treasure Generator
• [[Iron bands of binding]]
• [[Dagger of Darkness]]

Scratchpad#

Jot down notes during your game. Use it for a text-based combat tracker or anything else. Copy and paste from here into Discord for example. Here’s more on playing D&D and Discord and a Markdown-based battle map.

Session Notes#

• Write down notes as things progress during the game.