Beholder Group D&D Blog

Wed 16th July 2025 In-game timeline: Alturiak 12 - Alturiak 13 Our "Heroes" face some decisions, and this is one group who is not comfortable with working together to make decisions. Do they head for Easting, or Secomber? How do they find out more about the Veilspire Colosseum? How to prepare for a duel?  The party tried to find out more about Faith's origin and home, in an effort to decide whether to head to Easting or Secomber next. Faith used Sending to his mum to warn them of impending invasion. It takes 2 spells as he forgets to tell his mum the reply is limited to 25 words. She mentions the local blacksmith disappearing recently, but says they will try to get out of town. Faith is only partially satisfied, and the option to go instead to Secomber is once again open to them. Faith then uses Sending to Quinlen - Alwaith's father - to find out more of his own background. He learns he is touched by Shadar-Kai magic, but how, and to what end, is uncertain. He learns ...

Wednesday 35th June & Wed 9th July 2025 In-game timeline: Alturiak 9 - Alturiak 12 Heading away from Neverwinter wood, having avoided a possible chat with a Banshee, and seeing a glimmer of humanity in Solveig when he let a thief go without his now-trademark throat-slitting, our "Heroes" arrive at the Slaughter villages close to the Dragon Shrine. Unsurprisingly all is not well in the villages. Three missing children have riled up the villagers, who believed that the children had been either killed or taken by a family of wyverns who lived nearby. With the villagers about to head to the wyvern lair in a pitchfork-wielding mob, our "Heroes" managed to talk them down and said they would take care of the wyverns. They then proceeded to spend the day investigating the missing children - a very sensible thing to do, but not what the villagers wanted. They did find the body of one of the children, and some signs of a minor battle with the child's crossbow bolts an...