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DnD: Dragons of Stormwreck Isle (session 1)

 

Yesterday I had a first session as a Dungeon Master for my son Vash, my daughter-in-law Olesya and their friend Jilenko. It was my first time as a DM and my first play of the 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons. We had some problems setting up dndbeyond at our table and eventually chose to play the old fashioned way with pen and paper. We played the campaign Dragons of Stormwreck Isle, including the 'Intro to ...'. Vash, Olesya and Jilenko created their own characters of which you see a AI-representation above.

Jilenko plays Esh, a fire genasi who carries a bottle with the malevolant genie Farraddeen.


Olesya plays Tilo, a Jerbeen (mouse creature) who has a plane.


And Vash plays Heiko, a Warforged with a infernal fire as a heart.


Their first encounter was on the ship. They ran into a merrow (a merman), but were able to talk him down without a fight. On the shore they were beset upon by zombie sailors. Eventually they were able to defeat them, but it was not an easy fight. After the fight they rested at the Dragon's Rest and met the inhabitants: nine kobolds, elder Runera and two other humans. We ended the session after our heroes had a sturdy breakfast.

Here you can find the session recap. The original images are copyrighted by Jilenko, Olesya and Vash. I added some extra images using Google Gemini AI and ChatGPT.

Edit: This morning we did a small follow-up session. Here's the recap from that session as well. We're planning to continue the campaign at the beginning of May.

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