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We had two drop in players joining our Satyr Priest of Heliod and Elemental Centaur Monk.
We've been noticing new rule changes and had some bumps. Now I actually get some of the rules I'm using them better. Played D&D5 for five years but DMing is recent. I think I was right to be wary of elaborate ability stacking combos, but I survived. Also getting a better grip on 2024 version.
So two human adventurers from an island, a barbarian and a wizard who had heard of glorious looting and adventurers opening up unexplored lands. So they had left their tiny island kingdom, as it had gotten boring with less than a hex to explore. Their Island was known to the citizens, and people were happy to help them meet the established local heroes.
Then the satyr and centaur came back to the city after working on their tower bastion. Locals introduced them to the two new heroes. They agreed the next day to visit the labyrinth. Scholars had assembled a list of cursed monsters to kill to remove the curse-attaching monsters.
It was a nice day to kill monsters, and they reached the canyon once blocked by a sphynx. Its tomb lair was a guard station now, and the guard had gone from 4 to 12, and they had built a wooden stockade gate across the pass. Stonemasons were planning a better gate. A few local idiots had passed here looking for easy treasure and died. The party had the word of King Dorian to allow them to pass as they pleased.
The guards warned them of a giant. It had visited the city by eating the four former guards with his dire wolf and threatened the city to release the dogs of Geryon the city held captive. One a hellhound; the other a son of Cerebus. They saw the giant gathering rocks and quickly attacked. The Satyr and wizard fireballed the giant; the barbarian fired arrows. The wolf was vapourised, and the giant was assailed by the centaur monk. The dumb brute didn't last long. he had some basic crap and a brass plaque of Geryon, some kind of passport or seal.
They marched on and avoided the graveyard and harpy lair.
They debated which way to go. The centaur wanted to kill the medusa that other heroes had fled earlier. The others were a bit more wary and chose a slightly indirect door.
They fought some undead hoplites and met a spirit lady from some wall art offering they join her for an eternity of indolent feasting. The party were not very interesting. The monk started to smash the walls with his fists and she became a spectre and they killed her.
There was a sacred procession hall of a mystery cult, and the owl didn't want to go near. So they passed some questioning masks and found a weird bearded god idol, a snake from the waist down. He held another magic iron sickle (though it also turned ppl slain into zombies). They took the sickle and passed a corridor of fire-breathing satyr faces with murals of satyrs burning people with torches.
The owl awaited them, and they wandered around a bit more to the Mwedusas temple. The owl left. They chased after some undead hoplites that escaped them onto the temple, and the wizard saw a robed figure in a temple door. It was the Medusa in her more attractive form, and she bathed them in her eerie green gaze. Most resisted, but the monk became immobilised. He managed to do quite a bit of damage. The barbarian with his huge sword smashed her and resisted her poison and claws. But they won.
This was one of the cursed monsters, and they found her large treasure, including a viper staff, a magic bow and piles of coins. So, feeling they were lucky, they fled home and went about going up to 6th Lv. The satyr found at home, the owl visited him and turned into a lady who kept visiting him by night in her feathered cloak.
We had some side chats about published adventures, mechanics and monster power levels. It's nice to help see what people like and dont.
