Knight of the Sun

Knight of the Sun Podcast final episode. Some banter between the Mad Hermit and Aschiael. Music is "Dark 80s Synth" by White Bat. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Knight of the SunPodcast Walk-Through Session 10“The Tomb, Level 3.”Music is “Dark 80s Synth,” by White Bat.You can purchase this Module (Knight of the Sun) at DriveThroughRPG.comSession 10 Time Signatures: 1:16. Preliminaries for level 3. 3:37. Differences in the Undead on this level. 5:20. Sarcophagi burials and my difficulties saying that word three thousand times.7:55. Grave Finds in the sarcophagi. Opening the sarcophagi. 13:03. Disturbing the dead while looting. 13:50. Armor on the Undead on this level. 14:30. The divisions of the map in the modules (Main Map vs. Close Ups).15:25. Chamber #1 complications (which begin on level 2).17:45. Tracking notes for Chamber #1.19:05. The secret door to the Grand Chapel when “first” found. 21:27. The second secret door from Chamber #1 leading to Chamber #2, the Vestment chamber. 22:39. “Pack Gnomes” and their uses…. Just kidding. 22:48. The potions on the table. 24:40. Chamber #3. 25:40. Secret door into Chamber #3. 26:20. Overview of Chamber #3.      28:00. The firelight entering Chamber #3 and what it reveals.  30:10. The dangers of noise in Chamber #3.31:30. How Cleoth and Butcher will deal with PC in chamber #3 if they are alerted to their presence. 32:00. Possibilities for entering the Grand Chapel from Chamber #3. 34:34. Sneaking through the Chapel while the enemy are in it to open the secret door into the Grand Chapel.  35:30. The grated pipe where the water is entering Chamber #3. 37:38. Notes on handling the possible circumstances of the conflict with Al'Tharron and his henchmen. 42:26. Chamber #7. The Horse's Tomb. 44:30. The sounds from Chamber #7 that can be heard from the bottom of the stairs at #4a, and the southern end of Chamber #6a.47:03. First view of the Horse Tomb (Chamber #7).50:00. The central pool and the Horse statue in it. 51:30. The race taking place in Chamber #7 and the Zombies in the chamber. 52:55. The open chambers on the southern wall and the other Skeletal Warhorses within them. 54:20. The Wight in the chamber.56:44. Moving to the horse statue.57:40. Details of the horse statue.58:18. The importance of the gems in the horse statue's eyes to opening the secret tomb. 1:01:12. Removing the gems and the ramifications of doing so.1:02:55. How the situation can go bad in Chamber #7.1:04:14. The riders and other undead following the PCs.1:05:54. Chamber #10. The Grand Crypt (the false tomb).1:07:10. The central plinths and the sarcophagi on them.1:09:18. The Shadows in Chamber #10.1:10:38. The treasures in Chamber #10. 1:11:20. The traps around Chamber #10. 1:12:15. Chambers #11 (A-J) are grouped together under #11. 1:13:45. The Grand Chapel, Chamber #12. 1:15:20. How the module is going to end.1:17:25. If “goodly” PCs manage to defeat Al'Tharron.1:19:15. Details for the final battle with the villains. 1:20:01. Al'Tharron's backstory. 1:24:14. Al'Tharron's history with Cleoth and Butcher. 1:29:10. How they will begin an attack. 1:31:05. Advantages for the PC party. 1:31:45. The villain's escape plan.1:32:40. Al'Tharron's specifics. 1:38:24. Cleoth the Half-Ogre's specifics.1:41:55. Butcher's specifics.1:43:40. Maneuvering through the battle.1:44:39. Capturing the villains.1:45:27. Entering the secret tomb. 1:47:30. The curse suffered from opening Sir Xavier's Sarcophagus.1:48:12. The Holy Avenger “Sincrixa.”1:50:00. Wrapping up…                ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Knight of the SunPodcast Walk-Through Session 9“The Tomb, Level 2.”Music is “Dark 80s Synth,” by White Bat. Session 9 Time Signatures. 1:23. Notes on finding torches in the tomb. 3:27. Differences between level 1 and level 2. 4:40. Racial cohorts of the dead buried together on level two. 5:16. Alcove graves stacked along the walls. 6:06. The state of the Undead's armor on the deeper levels of the tomb. 7:00. Zombies on this level and conflicts “between” the different Undead.10:33. Grave Robbing. Sorting out Grave Finds in the various alcove tombs. 11:50. Burial “Blocks” within the larger chambers. 12:50. The chance of discovering “Grave Finds.”14:06. Spell plates.15:13. Time spent grave robbing. 16:10. Sacrificial Pits. 20:14. Random Encounters and Atmospheric Encounters.20:42. Trap “X1,” the Portcullis traps. 23:25. Engraved direction plates above the doorways. 24:50. Foyer/Gallery. Room #1.25:18. Symmetry in the tomb.27:10. Dwarven tombs on level 2. 27:50. The Ceremonial Anvil Chimes and their effects. 31:08. The Statues of the Monks in the short halls (areas 2a and 3a). 31:45. Area 2a. The sneaky Gray ooze. 33:27. Area 3a. The trapped “golden” chain. 35:30. East of the Foyer; “the Elven Tombs.”37:42. Chambers 15 and 16. 38:36. Clean floors…? Gelatinous Cubes. 39:20. The door in hallway 15a. 39:48. The Wood Elf Prince's tomb. The trap and the treasures. Wood Elf problems with desecrating this tomb. 44:40. The Elven Long Bow An'Tal'Orix.45:30. The Ioun Missiles. One use (but worth it verses Undead). 47:52. The trap leading into the Dwarven Commander's tomb.49:17. Botching the Dex saves associated with the Portcullis traps.49:57. Rooms 13 and 14. Human burial chambers. 50:27. Room 18's traps and difficulties. 54:00. Wrapping up.   ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Knight of the Sun Podcast, Walk-Through Session 8“The Tomb, Level 1.”Music is “Dark 80s Synth,” by White Bat. Time Signatures for session 8.1:25. Taking stock of how the PCs have arrived at the tomb and what they are looking for here. 2:18. Keys in “The Heroes of Bone-Dust Hill.”3:54. How Dons Hollow came to be. 4:30. A few ways to help clarify goals for PCs hailing from the good side of the coin.6:35. Silas as a source of more specific information.8:26. Figuring out Mindra's secrets or catching Mindra and Silas meeting. 10:02. Speaking with the ghost of Sir Dartayn Nagara.19:05. Last notes on Mindra as a source of greater info and help.20:30. The construction and look of the chambers and halls in the tomb. 22:02. The way that descending stairs in the tombs enter and leave chambers.23:40. Lighting within the tomb. 24:30. Torch sconces in rooms. 25:45. Using torches to scorch or mark walls.26:05. Some discussion of Dark Vision.29:55. The durations of torches. 30:20. Monsters spotting light sources. 32:05. Distances of sounds carrying within the tomb. 33:52. Rolling encounter checks in the dungeons. 34:47. D12 encounter checks.38:22. Hearing skeletons moving within the tomb. 39:18. “Shrouded” Skeletons.41:00. The bonuses given to “Shrouded” dead. 42:45. The flammability of burial shrouds. 44:38. Discussion of what will be covered in the Podcast on each level of the Dungeon.45:26. Room one. Tracking notes. 46:26. Room two. Reflecting pool, statues, exits, and the skeleton of Grullox Grim Hammer.  49:50. Grullox's War Hammer. 51:57. Chambers three and four. The “screening walls” in these chambers. 53:32. The statues in the galleries. 56:12. The masses of skeletons in areas number five and number six. 58:15. Dartayn notes with concern to other locations in the first level.1:00:18. The monk's bunking rooms.1:01:05. The jade mermaid figurine.1:04:23. The meditations halls, and the oddities of Skeletal Commanders.1:06:40. Rooms fifteen and fourteen. Scrolls and wax in room 14. The bone weird in room 15.1:12:00. The monk's chapel. The statue: its treasures, traps, and powers. 1:13:55. Reversing the blessing for evil characters.       1:15:05. Getting through the vent pipe behind the statue in the chapel.1:17:45. Wrapping up level 1.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Knight of the SunPodcast Walkthrough Session 7“Bone Dust Hill.”Music is “Dark 80s Synth” by White Bat.Time signatures:1:35. Final encounter of the creek. Fatigue?3:00. Camping on the hill if they miss the window to open the tomb.3:40. Cloud cover. 4:35. Entering the pathways around the hill. 5:57. The map of Bone Dust Hill. 7:00. The paths through the thorns. 7:50. Hacking short cuts through the paths. 9:26. Elevation marks on the map in the book (area #10 is at the top of the hill, so all slopes lead up to that location).10:53. Some info about the battle that took place on this hill, and details about the defensive earthworks that were built on the site.12:48. Where the ditch and earthwork lays around the hill. 14:47. Encounters around the hill. 16:20. Encounter area #3. The Specters.17:05. The skulls and the ritual used to bind the Specters to the skulls. 19:15. Attacking the skulls. 10hp in one shot (or in the same round) to destroy it.  21:25. Encounter area #2 notes.  22:00. Encounter area #4. The Standoff.23:18. The two bands of skeletons. 25:24. Disturbing the skeletons. 26:10. The henge-point of the encounter.27:50. Giving a hint. 28:20. Dicing to resolve the skeleton fight, if it can be sparked between the Undead groups.29:30. The surviving commander takes control. 30:10. The PCs have to fight or avoid the separated patrol groups. 30:46. Giving a hint to those who have read the book “Heroes of Bone Dust Hill.”31:35. Encounter areas #5 and #6. The paths over the ditch and earthwork mound. 36:30. The muddy pit trap in the ditch at #5 and #6. 37:32. Complication any fighting at area #6 from area #7. 39:44. Area #7 combat resolutions. 40:27. Traveling from area #7 to the shrine (area #10) at the top of the hill.41:29. Area #8. The Thorn Blights. 43:57. Area #9, The Hidden Camp.  45:20. .pdf trap difference with the Hidden Camp. 47:20. Hidden body at the Hidden Camp in the .pdf and the XP opportunities concerning the body. 48:37. The horses at the camp and missing the Hidden Camp. 49:57. Important Loot in the camp, adding details in Al'Tharron's stuffs.51:44. Mindra and/or Silas following the PCs.53:05. The Shrine. Area #10. 54:45. The Thorngre.   56:13. Opening the tomb and getting a first look into the tomb. 56:55. Sacrificial Pits in the tomb, and the first of those encountered at the top of the stair.58:54. Tracking on the stairs. 59:07. Wrapping up: notes on handling extended stays at the shrine.  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Knight of the SunPodcast Walk-through, Session 6. Up the creek. Music is “Dark 80s Synth” by White Bat. Session 6 Time Signatures:1:30. The Wood Elf N.P.C.s2:43. What the Wood Elves know that is important. What they need to find out. 4:43. The Ogre Blu'Ghra.6:05. Staging the deaths of specific NPCs.6:52. Little Sister Gretchen.9:10. Using a Drover or two in the villager (Missing Merchant's Hook note). 10:44. The Chapel's belltower as a vantage point.12:59. Notes on the Ghast, Father Chandley.14:11. Investigating the constable's house on day two, rather than day one and the location of the constable's house. 15:32. Negotiating access to the Dwarven tower (the brewery) with the bodies of the constable, his wife and/or the baby. 16:23. What the dwarves will do with the bodies, if they gain them. 17:32. Considering the taller buildings. Holing up in them. Falling out of them.18:57. The room to play with the situation in the village.19:49. Using the Wood Elves to spur the PCs onward.20:00. What if the PCs barricade the northern end of the creek. 20:48. Old man Mcgrubber's prize bull?21:06. Your paladin's prize war horse. 21:55. Mindra adding to the mess. 22:23. Making a list of the levers you can pull. 23:00. Traveling up the Creek.23:29. Convincing an acolyte to come along.24:50. Complications with Niles. 25:55. Getting into the creek tunnel. 26:16. Movement in the creek. 26:45. Set encounters along the course of the creek.27:47. The Crow Encounter. Teaching the PCs the intricacies and difficulties of action in the creek. 29:55. Caring for PC feet.30:31. Alternative encounters in the creek. Someone trapped out in the thorns. 32:12. The encounter with the deer. 37:42. The Lesser Wraith (and friends).40:52. The scream of the lesser Wraith. 41:44. Complications of the Wraith and Specter encounters. 44:05. The battle at the waterfall. 49:23. The guards in the creek at the bottom of Bone-Dust Hill.51:30. Skeletal Commanders. 55:10. Oddities of Skeletal Commanders. 56:27. Wrapping up. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Music by White Bat.Knight of the SunSession 5 Time Signatures.0:54. Audio mishaps. 1:37. Lenny Tilston's name and notes. 3:00. What the villager's know about the Madman and notes on his escape. 4:33. Waking the PCs into day 2. 5:30. First glances at the thorn wall.6:55. Going downstairs in the Inn on the second morning. 7:45. Reactions of the people in the Inn. 8:13. The Mayor arrives.8:50. The Mayor's announcements. 9:38. Announcement about the Brewers Tower and notes about it. 11:16. The Mayor asks to talk to the PCs. 14:14. Getting out into the village. 14:25. Deciding whether the thorn wall is poisoned or not and the effects if it is. 15:50. Notes on the thorn wall and the creek. 18:17. Locating Theta and going to the Chapel, notes on talking to Theta.19:50. Juggling the Niles interruption of conversation with Niles. 20:35. The open grave and Theta's demands for her “exorcism.”  21:50. Important elements in the Church. 23:35. The barding-helm.24:50. Encountering Acolyte Theta in the village and dealing with her. 26:13. Ending the conversation with Niles appearing in a panic. 26:40. The open grave again. 27:12: The scream. 28:02. Running toward the center bridge. Mud effects. 29:18: Protection from thorns.29:35. First view of Father Chandley and victim in the creek. One fast Ghast. 30:35. The northern bridge and Silas. The bottle of vast vapors and other tricks 31:40. The fog storm. 33:00 The state of the village in the fog. Silas and Father Chandley. 33:54. Dealing with the Ghast. Zombies, and catching up to the Ghast. 34:50. Acolyte Theta and the Ghast.36:11. Incursions. 37:04. How the PCs can find out where the creek leads to reach the shrine. 37:48: Small PCs (gnomes) and moving into the thorns.38:30. The action in the village and the number of the Undead involved. 39:19. Undead being made in the village. 40:15. How long to keep up the chaos and limits on the PCs approach to the tomb. 40:40. The Necromancer's advancement in the tomb.41:33. When the PCs will want to head to the tomb. 42:50. More notes on the secret of entering the tomb. 44:01. Acolyte Theta's death. Getting an acolyte to go along to the tomb. 46:17. Notes on hunting Silas. 47:05. Hiding places. 47:45. The exorcism of the Ghast and the death of Theta.48:40. Leaving for the shrine with an acolyte. Complications.50:10. Wrapping up. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Music by White Bat.Knight of the SunSession 4 Time Signatures.1:35. Approaching the Inn. Its exterior description.3:00. Meeting NPC Billy.7:43. Overview of the Inn's interior.9:47. Patrons in the Inn. 10:09. Meeting Mindra.11:03. The one not looking. 12:34. Ordering Drinks and talking to Mindra. 14:20. Meeting the Mayor. 17:23. The village's litany of woe.18:30. The execution. 18:43. Death of the priest.19:08. The missing Hunter. 19:18. The missing little girl. 20:12. The thorn bushes on Bone-Dust Hill. The book.  21:53. Vernrad Cadwell discovers the murdered Yinul family. 22:40. The ritual killings. 25:10. Drawing the sigils.26:02. Interpreting the sigil. 28:20: Ambient activities in the Inn during the conversation. 29:23. Father Chandley's murder and the mayor's misgivings. 30:22. The mayors take on Silas.30:50. The ritual killing of Father Chandley. 31:57. Arcana checks on the ritual killings. 32:37. The arrival of the Wood Elves. 34:15. The village mobs. 34:56. Rumors of strangers in the hills. 35:17. Rumors of an Ogre.35:50. Lenny wraps up and is tired. 36:25. Tired PCs and going to talk to Silas. 36:50. Other PC actions around the Inn. 37:40. Important notes on the constable's house.42:24. Rumors in the Inn. 42:42. Other activities of the PCs on the first night. 43:10. Alternative ways to cover the litany of woes. 45:17. The book “Heroes of Bone-Dust Hill.” 50:30. Wrap up. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Music by White Bat.Knight of the Sun Podcast.Session 3 Time Signatures. 1:37. Intro section. Addendum to “small town” NPC reactions. 3:54. The influence of John Carpenter's “The Thing,” and using it as inspiration for running a confined adventure space. 5:04. Note on the initial descriptions of the village. 5:40. The outhouses of Dons Hollow. 6:31. Population of Dons Hollow?7:30. Halfling Homes. 7:40. Dwarf Homes. 8:39. Wandering the village. The village hanging tree. 10:05. Cutter creek description; the roots. 13:13. Important NPCs in the village.13:34. Silas, first look. 16:37. Minion of Orcus Quirks that Silas Possesses.17:25. Minion of Orcus Wererats. 17:45. Minion of Orcus pledge beyond death.17:35. Minion of Orcus Wererat's vulnerability.20:54. Why Silas is in jail.24:57. Minion of Orcus Wererat's size and appearance in monster form. 26:25. Outhouse Dweller. 26:40. What the village knows of him via rumor. 27:11. The scent of Silas. 27:58. Silas's eyesight restrictions.28:24. What the village has learned from Silas. 29:01 Going to meet Silas on the first night. 29:19: PC Fatigue from travel. 29:53. Where Silas actually is. The threat of Silas.32:10. Silas's hearing. 32:49. His escape hitting the village. 33:41. Stat specifics of Minion of Orcus Wererats (re-hash of a few topics already discussed).35:58. Lycanthropy threat.36:27. Undeath of a Minion of Orcus. 37:22. Silas' contact in the village. 37:40. The NPC Mindra Tilston. First look. The barmaid's story. 40:10. Mindra's Connection to Silas. 40:59. Mindra's second secret (how the undead deal with her and Silas).42:36. Mindra's Stats and function in the story.45:40. Mindra's existing affair. 47:34. Mindra's task as she sees it. 49:09. Mindra's secret in the basement. 53:40. The NPC Claire Orthel. First Look.55:33. The Orthel Grandchildren.56:00. What they are doing in Dons Hollow. 57:50. Long term importance of Murdock “Orthel.”58:37. What to do with this backstory.59:05. The journal. Claire's and Kessen's class. Her spells. 1:00:30. Holding and dealing with the secret. 1:01:48. Minor NPCs.1:02:20. The Wood Elves. 1:03:30. Wood Elf Ranger. 1:04:06. Who knows about the tomb.1:07:06. Jaelix Amasar. Wood Elf Ranger.1:07:42. Nasarra Etheon. Half-Wood Elf Druid.1:09:28. The secret of entering the tomb. 1:12:25. Acolyte Niles.1:13:30. Possible hirlings. 1:13:50. Largrin Silverforge. 1:14:10. Devrissa Highhill.1:14:40. Minx Dardinion. 1:15:54. Jath Oathsman. 1:16:33. NPCs wrap up. 1:17:17. Wrap up. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Music by White Bat.Knight of the Sun Podcast    Session 2 Time Signatures.1:13. Story Hooks. 1:37. “Agents of a Regional Lord,” Hook.3:14. “The Distrust of Wood Elves,” Hook. 5:02. “Priestly Concerns,” Hooks.   8:35. “Visiting Relatives,” Hook. 12:30. “Merchants Concern,” Hook. 15:10. The Hook for evil PCs. 19:20. Alternative Opening Scene. 24:01. First Section Opening. 26:15. Approaching Houses. 26:55. Beady little gleaming eyes. 27:23. If the PCs have horses. 27:45. Finding “the relative's house,” if that hook is used. 28:18. Approaching the chapel. 29:30. Optional opening; about the Ogre. 30:37. Ogre complications. 32:47. Acolyte Theta notes. 33:27. Getting the party to the starting point. 34:34. First look at the tavern innards. 35:22. Villager's first look at the PCs. 38:11. Wrap up. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Music by White Bat.Knight of the Sun PodcastSession One Time Signatures:1:07. Using the module with the Podcast & making adjustments.2:05. The general goal of the Podcast.2:20. How differences between the printed module and .pdf will be handled and what those are generally.3:45. Size of the Module and how to work with it. 5:20. Artwork differences between the book and the .pdf.6:30. The Typo-Rodeo.7:30. Session Zero stuffs.7:47. Choosing an angle, good vs evil.8:49. Cultists of Orcus.9:05: Location of the Adventure. 9:30: Starting Cities for Cult of Orcus. 10:38. The goal of evil characters. 12:45. “Goodly” characters.13:01. Main diff between good and evil PCs in the story. 14:20. Backstory for evil PCs.15:05. Backstory for good PCs.15:53. Campaign navigator for evil PCs.16:09. Chapter 2 of the series, “Bleeding light,” and campaign navigator release. 16:53. Game Systems. 20:00. 5e Hard Core Mode21:00. Minion rules. 21:30. The optional “Sanity” stat.23:10. PC levels. 27:24. Placing the adventure in various settings: Forgotten Realms.30:00. Possible locations in Greyhawk.31:02. Solar Deities to use for the “Sun God.”32:29. Wrap-up.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★