Campaign of the Month: September 2013
Heroes Unchained
In the mid 90s a group of gentlemen and scholars (read: college idiots) decided to band together to fight evil and vanquish Horrors. There were many (mis)adventures, many laughs, lots of camaraderie and a ton of fun in the world of Earthdawn. Eventually, some of us managed to graduate and life took us all in different directions. In the early months of ’11 a few phone calls and emails were placed and poof! the gang was back together; ready to sh!tstomp some Horrors again. Thus the Heroes Unchained campaign was born. Since we are spread out over four different states, we use Skype and Roll20.net on game nights. So grab some Hurlg and enjoy!
The Unchained
Urgral – 6th Circle Dwarven Horror Stalker with an axe to grind…preferably against a Horror’s face.
Skram – 6th Circle T’skrang Taildancer and Air Sailor. Self proclaimed “Ladies’ Lizard”…has a tail with a mind of its own.
Dremnin – 6th Circle Human Scout and Father figure to Hannah. Always seeking…
Vridich – 6th Circle Elven Nethermancer and Elementalist. Walking spellbook tattooed on his body. Hunted by Therans.
Stilicho – 6th Circle Human Warrior and displaced Lord of Konigsberg. Captain of the Dashing Stag.
Suulin – 5th Circle Human Troubadour with a gift for words and stories.
Dagmar – 6th Circle Troll Weaponsmith whose steel is as strong as his honor.
Current Sessions and Journals
Interludes – Twilight Peaks
The Unchained decide to stay for a month and help the Steelskull Clan with repairs. Some of The Unchained train while others decide to go spelunking. Kaer Derinkuyu is revisited in hopes that they will open their doors to the rest of the outside world.
- Skram – I Am An Air Sailor!
- Skram – Love Is An Island
- Stilicho – Burning Sky
- Skram – Sun Dance
- Skram – Eatin Crow
- Skram – Air Sailor Training
- Dremnin – The Lost Mine Pt 1
- Dremnin – The Lost Mine Pt 2
- Skram – Back To The Kaer
- Skram – Fire And Treasure
- Stilicho – Kava
Session 15 – The Reach Awakens
Lacking rest and recovery, The Unchained decide the best policy to deal with a Horror is still a good ol’ fashion ass whuppin’. This time The Unchained head back into the crystalline caverns with some troll backup. While the rest of the gang was gettin’ a beatin’ last session, Stilicho invoked the power of Rashomon to convince the trolls to rise up out of their fear and lethargy to fight back! It’s GO TIME Mr. Horror McBaddiepants!!!
- Skram – What Do You Mean Flying Monkeys
- Skram – Killing Crystals
Session 14: Teeth In The Darkness
Having finally returned to The Reach, The Unchained find the troll community battered and in hiding. They quickly discovery that The Reach is under siege by an insidious and clever Horror. Skram immediately gets Horror Marked yet again. The Horror Stalker gives him the stink eye. They manage to track their prey to a cave system high up in the peaks…and get their collective asses beat! Using advanced tactical combat training, they return to their airship to lick their wounds. Vridich manages to not die the entire session.
- Skram – Back To The Reach Pt. 1
- Skram – Back To The Reach Pt. 2
- Suulin – Libel Or Liability
Session 13: Praying for Death
While training in Bartertown, The Unchained receive word that The Reach is under attack. They quickly assemble on the Dashing Stag and start flying towards the Twilight Peaks at new and improved speed. Unfortunately, the flight over the Servos Jungle proves too much and the crew is forced to make an emergency landing. While repairs are underway, Hannah is stolen from the ships quarters. Tracking her into the jungle, The Unchained have their first encounter with the corrupt Invae and witness the return of Vargaxes.
- Skram – Welcome to the Servos Jungle Pt. 1
- Skram – Welcome to the Servos Jungle Pt. 2
- Skram – Welcome to the Servos Jungle Pt. 3
- Dagmar – When Steel Fails Pt. 1
Interludes – Down In Bartertown
King Neden holds audience with The Unchained upon their return to Throal. They inform him of the Theran floating city near Lake Ban. He offers to retrofit the Dashing Stag while everyone trains. Trejak and friends are brought up on charges of slavery before the Throalic authorities.
- Skram – Hail To The King!
- Skram – Toasting The Teacher
- Dagmar – The Forging Of An Adept Pt. 1
- Dagmar – The Forging Of An Adept Pt. 2
- Skram – Dashing Their Dignity
- Skram – The Making
- Skram – Yes My Thane
- Skram – The Unchained Reborn
- Stilicho – Throalic Justice Stinks
- Skram – Our Day In Court
- Journal – Faela Part 1
- Vridich – Faela Part 2
- Skram – Fafnir’s Gift
- Skram – Fafnir And The Dragon
- Stilicho – Phantasmal Nightmare
- Stilicho – We Lucky Few
- Skram – Lock, Stock, And Ale Barrel
- Skram – My Captains
- Stilicho – Law Prevents Justsice
Heroes Unchained Comments
Well deserved award and acolades for CoTM. There are so many things I love about this site. Great job to all those who have made this site awesome!
More press from the Earthdawn blog!
Thanks for the compliments!
Congrats on the honor! You deserve it!
Well done, guys! It has been a long time coming, so bask in the glory. Love the interview too and totally agree with your GM pearls of wisdom – “solicit player feedback and tailor game for them”.
(there will be TWIGS snapping in the forest tonight!)
Wow! We’re officially Obsidian Portal’s “Campaign of the Month” for September! Thanks to all for your words of support. The interview is posted here.
twiggyleaf nominated Heroes Unchained for September’s “Campaign of the Month” award! Go here to read the thread and weigh in on it if you agree.
I’m working on it. Vacation got in the way. LOL I had to go back to work to get some free time to write.
C’mon crew! I’m excited to read any/all journals about last session’s mayhem and plot twists.
Wow! What a full and detailed site. Love your use of the forums. Love the changing masthead, Love the amount of detail throughout, and excellent design! PS: I love that disengaging from combat optional rule. It is so simple and so brilliant!
Thanks, kettle. We’ve been really enjoying the game. Between NinjaFlashX doing most of the groovy CSS improvements and many of my players writing really compelling stories about the adventures, it’s really been a group effort to make this game and site what it is.
This is a great site! I love Earthdawn. Keep up the great work.
Yes, a couple of major changes over the weekend:
1. The Earthdawn themed Navigation bar now shows up on all pages, not just the home page and main wiki page (thanks to some fancy CSS coding)
2. Redesigned the Wiki page as it was cluttered.
Thanks for the kudos!
Did you just change the wiki main page….love that look!
Awesome job on the rotating banner – that is pretty cool
HAHA! +1, Like, Thumbs up!
I just killed a PC with extreme prejudice. Is that bad?
Looking great guys well done :)
Maps if needed
Wow, never knew this existed until I saw you in the CSS forum! Great work!
wow great work on the main page. I love the charaters down the right side of the page.
Awesome! Thanks so much. I will make sure to give credit where credit is due.
Sure! Most of the Earthdawn character sheet is located here:
The animated banner I created in Adobe Photoshop. That was a bit harder to accomplish. I ended up using an online tutorial that described how to create animated gifs.
The code to insert audio into our Journal posts I’ll add to the Wiki code page. I’ve tried to add code here before and it doesn’t work real well.
Any suggestions on where I could learn some of the tricks you used (Animated banner, adding audio, and your character sheet layout are of great interest to me)? These sites are a lot of work, but they are an incredible tool for RPGs. I love working on mine, I just want to find a better way to present the material.
Thanks. There has been a lot of work go in to it.
Beautiful page! Good to see Earthdawn getting the love it deserves.
Thanks I had to update the charater sheet twice as it did not save the first time. Must have missed it. I’ll get it.
Love the slides!
Shawn, you should have damage step 22 with the hammer, not 21…
That was all NinjaFlashX! And I concur!
Love the new slide show!!
Gron, you can change the color of you link by doing this:
http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/sanction/wikis/tips-tricks#12
Figured it out, I was rather foolishly not looking at the Adventurer Log tab but the log it’s self, all sorted now.
Now what I need to figure out is how to make the linked text’ed more visible on the parchment background.
Oh and don’t tell, but bq). FourthLion is a brilliant GM
Nice looking page :) can see Gron’s been here causing trouble lol
http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/the-circle-of-light
And I usually just put it on its own line after the first paragraph.
Hi Gron. Thanks for the fave. The syntax is as you noted above – <,!,-,-,more,-,-,> (without all the commas).
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-more- > without any spacesHi, great site, great navigation, how do you put the “Read the rest of this entry »” in your entries?
Been looking how to do this and can’t find anything useful al all.
In the FAQ it says use this but that don’t work.
It seems Suulin forgot about Durability when she raised herself to 3rd Circle. Those HP are important! — Mike
Nice adjustments to the Main Page, Flash! — Mike