A series of Interviews with me and my dad about D&D. Part of an extension of a series of blog posts I'm doing to flesh out the background of our version of Mystara full transcriptions can be found at 42ducktape.blogspot.com under the tag 'interviews'
we cover how we handled spells, dragons, zombies and assorted other rules
remembrances of all the times we played and ran the sample group adventure in the 1983 Basic Set of the Dungeon masters rulebook edited by frank mentzer
Discussion of the 3 times we ran through this mini module and finally destroyed Rosentos(maybe?)
our adventures with the sword of justice in farstead and the mansion of kanos in dragon #92
Dad's original group in San Diego get distracted on their way to the Isle of Dread
packs from b4 revised to packs A-F, scanned picture will be uploaded when I post this to theblog
Our adventures in The Savage Coast and the Serpent Peninsula and slow death of the Dragon City Campaigns.
My Dad's 2nd character he made, a cleric of Prometheus.
An NPC created for the Keep on the Borderlands
Talk about my dad's 1st PC that he created and his mentor kelvin
After the defeat of the master's army(x5) we return to dragon city. Hear of green dragon near Selenica and meet up with Stirling and help him defeat a green dragon and we claim the eggs and go to Ylaruam where we help Stirling consolidate his kingdom(and conquer the soderfjord jarldoms). We also discuss how each dragon type(white, blue, green, black, red, ruby, onyx) was brought to/allied with the Dragon city.
Jared's PC fighter named Gabriel nicknamed Samson, 6'4" tall with a big 2 handed sword(claymore)
discuss the characters Ed Jenner and his son Patrick Jenner, George the Cook (a cleric) and Jahar the Ventriloquist (a Magic User).
our encounters inn the town of magden, meeting with the Oard, defeat the master and his armies and our journey back to the empire.
our journey through the great pass and meeting with the oldest living red dragon.
first adventure with friends outside of family, we go from imperial city to pramyama and end when we begin trek across desert to great pass.
finish isle of dread, encounter village of mantu and go to taboo island but don't go to lower dungeons or encounter kopru.
Our Adventurers head out to the Isle of Dread. we cover everything from the voyage to our climb onto the central plateau.
We start with the description of the continental map in X1 Isle of Dread, and talk about the different nations and my dad's perceptions/ plans of them. Outline the power and extent of the empire. Go on into some old hex maps in hex booklet my dad used in our games. also talk about ylaruam culture and ruling family.
start from leaving the lost valley; encounter tribes of hobgobs, and discover green ale(goblin blood); meet elves of alfheim; and royal family of ylaruam, and meet emperor in imperial city(darokin); and establish trade route. We then hear from karameikos and head down to investigate the black eagle barony. We infiltrate Fort Doom free an enslaved black dragon who helps us defeat the baron's army, and the dragon eats the baron. We finish setting up settlement with green ale tavern that will become the dragon city. We discover letter of Rory Barbarossa and decide to go to Isle of Dread. I also discuss my plans for the black eagle and threshold in my version of this setting many years after these events have taken place.
A narration of my first memories playing D&D and about my fist Basic D&D PC Z'neth. We also go into some mechanics about how spell houserules and weapon mastery and elven aging.
exploring the lost valley and establishing peace between the hutaaka and traldar, and also our first meeting with the dragon council and the quest to establish the dragon city
The adventure from xitaqa to the gorge
Recorded on 14 April 2019. This will be a long one, also we jump all over the place because of the structure of the module. So far we have recorded everything up until the party reached Xitaqa.
Recorded on 9 January and 30 March 2019. In the first part we discuss the keep and the surrounding wilderness, the secondpart covers the caves of chaos.
Recorded on 9 May 2018. This is split into 2 parts, we first talk about my dad running it for his friends, and then when he ran it for me and my siblings. The transcript for part 1 can be found here https://42ducktape.blogspot.com/2018/05/d-story-2-b1-in-search-of-unknown-part-1.html and part 2 https://42ducktape.blogspot.com/2018/06/d-story-2-b1-in-search-of-unknown-part-2.html
The story of how my dad got introduced to the game and his early D&D stories. Recorded on 4 April 2018. the transcript for this episode can be found at https://42ducktape.blogspot.com/2018/04/d-story-1-introduction-to-game.html