Liverbirds Campaign Journal

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The Liverbird's campaign begins in the city of Kingsbridge, in the lower east side of the city in the port quarter. Tahd hears about the annual "Challenge of Champions" and talks his friends into signing up as a team to promote the bar. Nothing has been the same since.

DM Notes

Going into this campaign, my players requested smaller adventures instead of the longer form epic ones we've played through over the last few years. Some of them expressed a desire for some urban adventures, with base building, political maneuvering, and social climbing. With this in mind, I decided setting the game in Kingsbridge, my largest and most developed city made the most sense. I started working on a few overarching plots, but the campaign is starting off with a series of serial adventures drawn from Dungeon Magazines. While each session stands alone as an adventure, I am tying them all together in what I hope proves to be interesting ways as the party's reputation grows in the city. I will be citing all 3rd party source material as I use it.

As part of our Session Zero, I tried out for the first time the book Party Backstory Generator by Justin Sirois One of my plans for this game is to actually use all these books I keep buying! I didn't follow the book exactly, as it is presented to help flesh out the starting town in addition to creating character links, but I did have the players roll on various tables. I randomly assigned who would get to roll on each table, and then they would get the table results. The very first result oddly enough defined how the game started and provided motivations and led to their team name - not bad. Aletta and Tahd inherited a tavern. We placed it in Kingsbridge, they named it The Liverbird, and then mapped it out. The other results are listed in the session zero page.

The campaign begins on the1st of Greenwake in the year of 3518 U.S. (7/1/3518)

For anyone listening to the podcast, this is in the same world and timeline. Seasons 1 and 2 took place last year in 3517, while Jeannie's adventures up through NBod's room happened mere weeks ago, so actions in any other campaigns will affect the other.

Session Journal

7/1/3518 Challenge of Champions

7/7/3518 The Last Dance

7/21/3518 Caveat Emptor

7/28/3518 Night at the Spottle Parlor

7/30/3518 Wreck of the Shining Star

8/10/3518 The Matchmakers

8/19/3518 Going Once!