The 5 Kingdoms Forum

Here is a link to a rudimentary map to be used as a guideline on distances overland. The circles are purely distance "as the crow flies" (because doing otherwise is way too hard). The blue circle is about a day and a half of overland travel. Green is 3 days of travel. Yellow is about a week. Red is ...

Here is the spreadsheet of the pooled magic items available to any in the Chamber of Commerce. It also covers pooled gold.

At Brian's suggestion, I have created a Google Doc to cover adventure recaps, which will allow adventures to be added out of order, but inserted chronologically. You have the link in your inboxes, but you can also access it here.

Here is a thread for posting information on important NPCs. If they recur and we should know stuff about them, post it here. If you create a new NPC that has been in town a while and it would make sense for our characters to know things, also post them here. Also, Google Sheet for the various famili...

Not long after arriving and settling into Ulfsar, there was a call for aid from the farmlands. It seems one of the farmhands at the Mikma ranch had been killed. The locals suspected the wolf attacks, as several sheep had also been slaughtered. Ursu, Venn, Langston, Mourgrim and (Shawn) traveled nort...

This thread is for the posting of session/adventure recaps. Discussions about events should take place elsewhere, and plot hooks or dangling threads should be included in the Points of Interest thread. Additionally, recaps should be posted by a player in the adventure, rather than a GM, if at all po...

Thanks, Jay.  We've been trying to keep true to the Tantathian aesthetic as much as possible.

So, it turns out that our final McGuffin is, in fact, a missing epic hero of days past.  However, if this place could break someone as powerful as Caig bel-Shanya, how in the Nine Hells are we going to make it out of here?  But no matter, we have to try. Rictavio directed us to the shores of Lake Za...

I am Valkyrie.  I am Fury.  I am beautiful and terrible as the dawn.  All is well.  My vengeance will be sated.

I will begin by saying that, at times, I have been known to make tactical errors.  I'm not saying that I made such an error, just that it's possible.  From time to time. With our dead MacGuffin Dispenser in tow, we made it back to Vallaki.  This time, nothing was on fire that wasn't supposed to be o...

Apparently climbing a mountain takes a long time.  Who'd have thought?  It took us several days to wind our way back down the mountain, over the river and through the wood.  But we made it surprisingly unscathed.  Part of this may have come down to the decision to not use the folding boat as a sled ...

It seems there was more to do in the hellhole before leaving. First on the agenda seems to be communing with more dark gods and accepting their profane gifts.  When in Perdaith, do as the Perdaithians do, I guess.  Immediately after Kasmir accepted his gift, we went looking for more.  Twenty steps a...

It didn't make sense to post this anywhere else, really, so I'm posting it here.  I'm not sure how many of you (still) read Order of the Stick, but I just realized that Katja is basically Belkar.
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1115.html 

Between the moment our gear blinked out and the moment we charged headlong into danger, Hernwyn exposited that the temple was clearly built by Elysian elves who had brought back evil artifacts from Murmanityed.  Armed with this super helpful knowledge, the sightless Mateo charged down the stairs at ...

Trudging through the snow is even less fun than it sounds.  Sleeping in it without a camp fire is even worse.  We had made it to the entrance to the temple at dusk and knew we were too beat from pummeling demons to face whatever fresh hell this place had in store for us.  So we set a cold camp and f...

Rictavio, also known as Rudolph  van Richten, turned out to also be from the Kingdoms.  However, unlike us, he seemed to be in Barovia intentionally. As a renowned monster hunter, he had been tracking down Strahd.  It seems Strahd had cursed or murdered his son, or something.  Long story short, we h...

And, for some reason, the players think it's the half-orc that's the weird one in the party.

Downloadable PDF Article I pulled the quote below from: Your bread-and-butter  Dungeons & Dragons  party won’t include a manticore, a gargoyle, a hyena or a sentient fungi, but maybe it should. One  D&D  player spent a year and a half converting every single creature in the  D&D Monster Manual  int...

Having remembered that Savin was still with us, and that we had agreed to go with him to see the Vistani and Dusk Elf conclave on the lake, we exited the burning city.  Lady Watcher's death would have to wait at least one more night. We arrived just outside of the encampment after dusk (which is poe...

Side quests in hand, our intrepid adventurers decided to poke around in the last few rooms of the dragonhome.  While finding clues and the plot don't seem to be something we can find, trouble certainly is.  Kicking open a door, six revenants rose from a conference room table.  Seeing that we didn't ...

Pre-deity Beings: I was thinking about the beings we have described as being either before the gods or contemporary with their early days: dragons, aboleths, giants.  I figure each one ought to be treated in turn. Dragons are really iconic beings, and something I think we've had a fair bit of inter...

On Death and the Afterlife: So, death seems pretty simple.  Mortal things die and, when they do, they all end up in the same place.  They ride the ferry with Geth, and go hang out with Chatalize in the Underworld.  This is very Greek, pre-Elysium.  As such, I have a few questions which may or may n...

On demi-divine beings and outsiders: Avatars are pretty well sorted.  They are beings granted divine spark by a deity to serve as an ambassador/enforcer/delegate for the god.  Some gods have several (each with smaller chunks of spark), some have few (with proportionally more spark); some avatars ar...

On gods and planes: I think Kronarr absolutely needs to have his seat on the Prime.  Just, y'know, on the back side of Galhadria where we never go or something.  Go check Ianadale's write-up; the Prime is  his home.  Obviously, we can change whatever, but the current incarnation belongs on the Prim...

I thought it best to have this be a separate post from the opener. On the planes, I have no real problem with the default 5e planar system. (I've included that so you don't have to look it up in the book.) https://i.warosu.org/data/tg/img/0378/55/1423150263706.jpg I think we had agreed that the Prim...