Dreams to Slade Stolar for running, and providing an awesome conclusion, to our Temple of Elemental Evil adventure! And dreams to all the great players involved: Phillip Wessels, Tony Hahn, Richard Ruane, Jason Cordova, Timothy Bennett, Christo Meid. Thanks for the great game!
Play Highlights
The original party included a thief, warrior, berserker, conjurer, and a cleric. Shortly after entering the temple, we added another thief and another warrior. With the exception of one of the rogues, every PC met their demise.
Fortunately, the surviving thief was the one lugging all the treasure in a magic box and escaped the temple. With the half of the party on a mission to avenge a town’s people killed, the treasure hunter PCs that joined with us, chose (wisely) to flee, with only the one making it to safety.
Along the way we had many close calls, including uncovering a trove of most cursed items that we fiddled around with for almost an entire session. We also had some great companions/prisoners that came and went along the way. There was a pet ghoul for a while, a charmed sand elemental for a very short while until it turned on us (another near death moment), and a naked guard that we eventually found pants for.
We played using David Black’s The Black Hack rules, which I thought really let us focus on the story and setting details. Yet they were totally sufficient to resolve risky actions and provide us with some great combat scenes. And Slade did a bang up job with any mechanical conversions.
Temple of Elemental Evil is indeed evil. 😂 We were so obviously doomed.
Temple of Elemental Evil is indeed evil. 😂 We were so obviously doomed.
Oh, and I forgot to mention defeating wolves by feeding them poisoned ogre meat jerky (that’s jerky made from ogres, not for ogres).
Oh, and I forgot to mention defeating wolves by feeding them poisoned ogre meat jerky (that’s jerky made from ogres, not for ogres).
I was blessed with awesome players. There’s almost too much to explore in the module, and I’m pretty happy with the amount we uncovered.
I was blessed with awesome players. There’s almost too much to explore in the module, and I’m pretty happy with the amount we uncovered.
Also, all the weird twists you fellows added made my week each week.
Also, all the weird twists you fellows added made my week each week.
I have to admit, I wish there was a ‘to be continued’!
I have to admit, I wish there was a ‘to be continued’!