Wednesday 12 May 2021

Session 5

 We missed a few sessions so only the one report.

They were asked by Radigast to escort him to Dol Guldor, this journey continued with a larger number of encounters and varied discoveries, basically I had a deck of random events that I worked my way thru and they had to suffer thru.  Not terribly exciting.

The sessions ended with them finally arriving at Dol Guldor.

I was going to have Radigast leave them in camp and go in alone to the fortress. While he was away of course a large group of undead would find them and attack, if things got nasty I was planning for Radigast to return and save the day. Since then however I have had an inspiration.


A vaguely three dimensional diorama of the fortress, with some maps printed for it.  This idea went together with using Dungeoncraft software, a really excellent map making program. With Dungeoncraft I can create a map of the appropriate size in squares/grid, then I can export it to a png with a set number of pixels per square, then I convert it to a PDF, and finally I print the PDF as a poster in Adobe which allows it to use multiple pages and true size.

In the picture you can see 3 different maps I have set up that they will use. Instead of the undead I am going to have to try to rescue Radigast after he is captured, and before the Nazgul comes back (he is away).  The complication will be that once they get to Radigast he will tell them that there are several elves in the dungeon who need to be rescued!

Hooray for the good guys!!  :)