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   Pre-scene Notes We’re finally going for another Cave dive! I feel the pacing of this campaign is too slow with seemingly so many things happening outside the Cave so far, so I’ll try and concentrate on this. This session will show how the Cave dive mechanism can further develop Cavesmuth’s NPCs’ backstories. Scene setup/conflict:  Party back to step one before the incident at the Docks, and have to find a way to build fame No altered/interrupted scene Scene: The party ate breakfast at the tavern hall upstairs in silence. For once, Filli was the last to join them, but now with a reanimated Fido in tow. The Cliff’s Edge Tavern was littered with patrons as per all hours of the day, and they were still talking about the ship that crashed into the Docks. It had been towed back into the quay now, but the repair and cleaning work on the Docks were going to continue for a while. Soke plopped some bacon and eggs in front of Filli with a large jar of milk, grunting a shortie lik...

Even before session zero of any DND campaign, we should discuss tools of the trade. I had no plans to discuss in-depth how the basics of each works during my posts, as there were enough media online on those, and my focus would be on the actual campaign and storytelling. Saying that, even if you were not familiar with any tool I mentioned, I would think the posts themselves served as a great example of how it worked in a practical sense. If there were enough post on the lack of explanation was hindering readers’ understanding of the campaign, I might post separately to explain. Dungeons and Dragon, 5th Edition DND had been a household name since whenever wikipedia said and had undergone many changes since its inception. I tried to start a campaign in an older edition with friends, but 5e was the edition I had most knowledge in and I considered one of the most popular. This was likely thanked to Stranger Things, rise of Geek culture, and popularity of Critical Role during similar time p...