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This session was played on March 12, 2008, featuring Elphy, Froderic, Maduro and Tosh; Froderic's squire James and page Willy; and Tosh's gang of four "normal man"...
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This session was played on April 2, 2008, featuring Elphy, Froderic and Maduro; Froderic's squire William; and a sizable pack of additional hirelings, including four "normal men"...
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This session was played on May 7, 2008, featuring Elphy, Froderic, Arn and Maduro; Elphy's lady love Weevilla; Froderic's squire William; the acolytes Thorina and Viktra, the...
There are three alignments in Dungeons & Dragons. The quoted material on this page is copyright 1983 by TSR, Inc., and used without permission under a fair use rationale.
Lawful
Law (or...
The Forest of Arden encompasses much of the northern province of New Averoigne. It is a shadow-haunted forest, gnarled and immemorial, thick with the ruins of ancient times. The native folk tell...
Player
Tommeh
Class
Dwarf
Title
Dwarven Veteran
Alignment
???
Special
Dark-Vision, Stone-Cunning, Hearing,...
The Balrog appears in the earliest printings of the "Three Little Books" version of Dungeons & Dragons, published in 1974; the information was later removed at the insistence of J.R.R....
Bargle the Warlock is a liar and a murderer. He is a sociopath with no respect for the moral beliefs of others. Bargle is erudite, and can be polite in a sly sort of way for an hour or two. But...
Belrain the Sword-Singer is the son of Witch-Queen Ninde Nemacil, but has pledged fealty to Lord Stefan, and leads a contingent of the “Elven Guard”. He initially pledged his service to Lord...
Southernmost of the Principalities of Glantri, Blackhill joined the d'Ambreville coalition during the civil war. Darokin annexed Blackhill at the height of the war, and still retains a military...
James's game is set in the foothills of the Black Peaks. This region, also called the Steach, used to be the homeland of the Dwarves until it was overrun a century ago by the Dragon Army. Very...
For convenience, the Black Peaks game uses the familiar names of the 12 months. On this timeline, I'll assume that every month has 4 weeks.
This Year
July
In late July, Lord Stefan and his forces...
Player
littleidiot
Class
Magic-User 1
Title
Medium
Alignment
Lawful
Special
Spells, Languages (Common, Kobold, ?)
Abilities
Strength
9
Intelligence
15 (+1 added language)
Wisdom
8...
Bodhi the Medium accompanied Elphy in his adventures. She was killed by poisonous snakes in the Lost Mine of the Nichtgetan Dwarves. Bodhi was reputedly romantically involved with a young man in...
Certain dead characters
Black Peaks Game
This is a list of deceased player characters.
Name
Date
Location
Death
Tosh
Session 1
Lost Mine 2
Slipped off a cliff… twice
Elphy
Session 3
Lost...
The Broken Lands are a jagged realm of mountains, rocky hills, plateaus and badlands that lie south of Glantri, forming a barrier between the Principalities and the more aggressive Republic of...
Cardinal Ludwig is the highest ranking member of the One Lawful Church of the Great Builder in the Black Peaks, and brother to Lord Stefan. This combination of religious and secular authority makes...
The Château D'Ambreville (or Castle Amber) was once home to the sprawling d'Ambreville family, the most prestigious and magically powerful of all the noble families of Glantri. Their thaumaturgic...
Formerly the family seat for the Silverston family, one of the mageblooded lineages of the Principalities of Glantri. Castle Blackhill crouches atop a rugged hill in Blackhill province. It is a...
Nestled in a western river valley upriver from Blackhill, the principality of Caurenze is cut off from the rest of Glantri by Darokin-occupied territory. Without the dubious aid of Darokin's...
Character Creation in the Black Peaks
Characters are created at the table. This isn't a trust issue: it's that we like teasing you if you roll badly, or cheering if you roll well.
Characters are...
Player
skatay
Class
Thief 1
Title
Apprentice
Alignment
Chaotic
Special
Thievery, Languages (Common, Old Tongue)
Abilities
Strength
13 (+1 to hit, damage)
Intelligence
10
Wisdom
8...
One of the seven fundamental classes, blessed warriors who channel holy power directly from the divine. Not just any priest or prefect can expect to wield the powers of a true Cleric. Rather,...
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The Republic of Darokin is a powerful, wealthy coastal nation to the south of Glantri, and some distance west of Specularum. It is a non-democratic republic, though some would call it a plutocracy;...
Assembled by the Red Dragon, the Dragon Army terrorized the Black Peaks for one hundred years. When Lord Stefan defeated the Red Dragon, the Dragon Army mostly scattered to the four corners of the...
A sword forged by Dwarf Lord Heimdall during his captivity. The Nichtgetan family of Dwarves smuggled the blade to Lord Stefan, who used it to subdue the Red Dragon.
Dragon Slayer is a sword with...
One of the fundamental classes of Dungeons & Dragons. Dwarves, like Fighters are exceptionally powerful warriors; if anything, they are even hardier than their human counterparts, able to...
Heimdall was the king of the Dwarves in the Black Peaks region. He did not escape with the other Dwarven refugees when the Dragon Army sacked his lands, and over the decades many believed he was...
One of the fundamental classes. Elven adventurers, after decades or even centuries of study, have learned to combine the deadly combat prowess of the Fighter with the occult knowledge of the...
Elizabeth the Augur is a well-meaning devotee of the Trickster Cult, seeking to undermine the authorities and restore “home rule” to the people. She is no longer young, but no longer middle...
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Player
skatay
Class
Elf
Title
Veteran-Medium
Alignment
Neutral
Abilities
Strength
17 (+2 to hit, damage)
Intelligence
13 (+1...
Erewan is a hilly, thinly wooded province in the Occupied Territories of Glantri. From its heights, one can look toward Glantri City to the north, Blackhill to the west and Trintan to the east. To...
One of the fundamental classes of Dungeons & Dragons. Knights, mercenaries, soldiers, bowmen or bandits, all are Fighters, men and women who simply fight better than any other class. Given the...
A young urchin, perhaps eleven years of age. Fingers was orphaned in the wars against the Dragon Army. His* father was a locksmith; the boy has a bit of his father's knowledge and nimble hands with...
A bad-ass sword wielded by Belrain the Sword-Singer, bequeathed by his mother Ninde Nemacil the Witch-Queen.
All damage is treated as from flames
Gains +1 bonus against most enemies
Gains a +2...
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home.
—Led Zeppelin (covering Joe McCoy and Memphis...
Player
Quendalon
Class
Fighter
Title
Veteran
Alignment
Neutral
Special
Party Leader, Full of Awesome
Abilities
Strength
13 (+1 to hit, damage)
Intelligence
8...
Real World Info
This session was played on May 28, 2008, featuring Clamdigger, Immortus, Morten and Pog. (It was later determined that Black Water was retroactively present, hiding in the back of...
Real World Info
This session was played on June 11, 2008, featuring Black Water, Clamdigger, Immortus and Pog. In the first half of the session, Morten was present as an NPC; in the second half,...
The military leader of the Darokin occupation is a man out of his depth. A rotund man in middle age, General Umbarth was a wealthy cloth merchant before buying his commission in the Darokin...
Long ago, the family d'Ivernesse, rulers of the town of Morlay, raised a tower above the headwaters of the River Loir. The family was known for its subtle magics; rather than manipulating the...
A particularly gruesome form of the undead, usually created by apostasy against religious beliefs. The touch of a Ghoul immobilizes its unfortunate victim.
For Development
Why are Elves immune to...
Eric's game is set in the Principalities of Glantri. A generation has passed since the country was wracked by civil war. The people and the land are only just recovering from the magical...
Glantri City is the heart and capital of the Principalities of Glantri. Its spires, at the juncture of the Isoile and Vesubien Rivers, soar above a tangle of streets, bridges and canals. Only...
The black stone gables of the Great School of Magic form an unmistakable landmark in Glantri City. Merchants, nobles and governments across the known world pay exorbitant sums to send students here...
One of the fundamental classes. A Halfling combines the deadly combat skills of the Fighter, the hardiness of a Dwarf, and the sneakiness of a Thief into a single dangerous package. Though...
Dead Halfling adventurer and mercenary who operated in the Black Peaks. Upon accepting a bodyguard mission from Bargle the Warlock, she was killed in the Lost Mine. Rosehill was not as deferential...
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Player
James_Nostack
Class
Magic-User 1
Title
Medium
Alignment
Neutral
Special
Spells, Languages (Common, Glantrian, ?)
Abilities
Strength
6 (-1 to hit, damage)
Intelligence
13 (+1...
A distant cousin of the Frobisher family. When Sir Froderic Frobisher was knighted after the breaking of the Dragon Army, 16-year-old James became his squire. James acquitted himself well in the...
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Languages in the Black Peaks
Languages in Glantri
While it's possible to get by in Glantri knowing only one language, most characters know at least two. In the case of humans, that would be the...
Dungeons & Dragons is a game where characters have "levels" describing their relative power. I thought I'd provide a chart listing what this means in the game-world, with some real-world...
Lord Stefan is a successful feudal aristocrat, which means that he is boisterously wild one moment, shrewdly calculating the next—like Peter Fonda in The Lion in Winter. In any dilemma, Stefan...
The Lost Mine of the Nichtgetan, a small outpost for an off-shoot of the main Dwarf clan, is no more than a day's journey from Threshold, yet few have visited it since the Red Dragon swept over the...
Player
E.T. Smith
Class
Cleric
Title
Adept
Alignment
Lawful
Special
Turn Undead, Builder Spells
Abilities
Strength
5 (-2 to hit, damage)
Intelligence
8 (semi-literate)
Wisdom
15...
The Magic-User is one of the fundamental classes of Dungeons & Dragons. Magic-Users wield occult forces to bind men and demons to their will, travel great distances in the blink of an eye, or...
Malinbois is a small fortified town in New Averoigne, at the edge of the Forest of Arden. It is the last major settlement on the road north from Glantri City; beyond it lie the ruins of Château...
Certain spells show up in the Frank Mentzer Expert Set (published 1983) which do not show up in the Cook Expert Set (published 1980). James intends to allow them in the Black Peaks game, though as...
Player
Tommeh
Class
Cleric 1
Title
Acolyte
Alignment
Lawful
Special
Turn Undead, Languages (Common, ?)
Abilities
Strength
13 (+1 to hit, damage)
Intelligence
9
Wisdom
13 (+1 on...
Originally a populous, bucolic province, New Averoigne suffered terribly in the final stages of the civil war as the d'Ambreville family unleashed terrible magics upon the forces marshaled against...
Below are a handful of noble families of interest to adventurers, if only because they own (or once owned) ruined places where their treasures and magics may yet be...
Captured by Darokin during the civil war, the southernmost provinces of Glantri remain under foreign occupation. Years of negotiations with the Darokin government have proven fruitless in restoring...
The vault of the Ohnefrau clan of Dwarves is reputed to contain vast treasures protected by deadly stonework traps. The Ohnefrau, however, were extremely secretive, and no one knows the location of...
Player
Invincible Overlord
Class
Dwarf 1
Title
Dwarven Veteran
Alignment
Neutral
Special
Infravision, Stonecunning, Hearing, Languages (Common, Dwarvish, Gnome, Kobold,...
Rary's Tower is a forbidding location in the Black Peaks, home to a dangerous Wizard and the reputed location of a Staff of Power. Rary the Traitor is believed to have died at the hands of Bargle...
The Red Dragon, of course, is vain, greedy, and prone to wanton destruction—but it is immortal and can afford to take the long view.
One hundred years ago the Red Dragon conquered the Black...
Abandoned for years after the war, Redstone Keep is now home to the Bandit Prince, who uses the place as his base of operations. The Prince of Caurenze has yet to drive him out; even if he had the...
Religion in the Black Peaks
The people of the Black Peaks are dualists, believing in two deities: the Great Builder and the Trickster. I confess that I am stealing the look and feel of the video...
Renata leads a group of several dozen bandits, lurking in the Witherwood, who seek to capitalize on the treasure-seeking groups. A peasant girl ill-used by lords like Stefan, she has pretty grand...
Fabled magical item, said to be possessed by the Witch-Queen Nindë Nemacîl.
An exiled halfling Sheriff, Sherlock Von Hercules maintains a small contingent of freedom fighters in the forests of ??? hoping to overthrow Cardinal Ludwig's oppression of his people.
Distrustful...
Built long before the Dragon Army ransacked the Black Peaks, this shrine commemorated an oath of brotherhood between the Dwarves and the other folk of the river valley. It was consecrated to the...
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Specularum Harbor is the largest city in this part of the world. It is many miles south of the Black Peaks, where the river flows into the sea. Lord Stefan has made the city his capital, but it is...
This unique magic item is presently owned by Cardinal Ludwig. Each of the listed abilities costs one charge to use:
Control 3d6 hit-dice of animals for 1d6 + 6 turns
Control 6 hit-dice of humans...
The Staves of Power are symbols of the Wizard's Cabal: only Wizards (very powerful Magic-Users) may create and use them. Owning a Staff of Power is a sign that you are one of the greatest...
A note about levels: Dungeons & Dragons is a game where characters have "levels" describing their relative power. I thought I'd provide a chart listing what this means in the game-world, with...
A formal garden and hedge maze located on a fallow hill in Caurenze. The hedges and topiaries remain neat and trim despite the absence of any staff, and the place is said to be tended by unholy...
This fortified inn lies on the road from Blackhill to Caurenze. It is a sprawling affair of stone and wood, encircled by a stout log palisade, and home to innkeeper Red Marie and over a dozen of...
Threads of smoke rise from a rocky valley in the mountains above western Caurenze. Dwarves once delved here, deep beneath the earth, but they left long ago. Before the war, Glantrian wizards would...
One of the seven fundamental classes of Dungeons & Dragons. The Thief is suited to a life of burglary, espionage, reconnaissance, and assassination. Without occult powers, doughty armor, or...
The Thieves Guild operates out of Specularum, and is run by the Master Thief.
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We're a bunch of gamers who live in New York City. We're students, artists, web designers, lawyers, teachers, parents, and spouses. Once a month or so, we get together on a casual...
An acolyte of the Church of the Great Builder, Thorina was one of two such clergy Maduro hired to aid the expedition to the lost mine. She proved a worthy addition, especially in battle....
Threshold is a village in the foothills of the Black Peaks. Generations ago, it was a prosperous town where merchants from Specularum, Halfling farmers, and even Elves would come to trade with the...
A small clan of Goblin deserters from the Dragon Army who were completely exterminated by the Three. Their queen Weevilla, unaware of the massacre, survived briefly as a love-slave to Elphy until...
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Tosh's Story:
A filthy, pock-marked, balding, squat, pot-bellied ne'er do well, Tosh was leading a satisfactory life of petty scams, whore-mongering, and the occasional low-risk burglary when Sir...
The fertile province of Trintan lies in the southeast of Glantri. It is an orderly land of farming towns and traveling merchants, though its peace is an uneasy one; it is one of the Occupied...
Tyrfing is a Dwarf who traveled with Lord Stefan's forces and fought alongside them against the Dragon Army. Tyrfing is dedicated to the cause of restoring the Black Peaks to Dwarven control. He is...
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Weevilla was killed by the bite of a giant snake. In life, she was ambitious, scheming queen of the Tooth Gnasher Clan, who, out of a misguided and perverted love for Elphy the Veteran-Medium,...
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14-year-old William is the youngest son of a landless knight who died in the last battle against the Dragon Army. Upon being knighted in that same battle, the similarly fatherless Sir Froderic...
An immortal queen of the Elves.
Class
Elf 9
Alignment
Chaotic
Armor Class
5
Hit Points
32
Attacks
Bow (+5 to hit, 1d6 damage)
Special
Elf Spells, Elf Hearing, Elf Vision, Ghoul...
The Witherwood is the forest beyond Threshold in the foothills of the Black Peaks. Renata the Robber and her band dwell here, preying on the newcomers to the village, but there are rumors of far...
The Cabal was formed by Mordenkainen to advance the study of magic by gathering the greatest Wizards of the age. To gain admission to the Cabal, an Wizard had to have created a new spell. Many...
The looming mass of Wizards' Hill dominates the skyline of Glantri City. The hill is crowned by the great dome of the Council of Princes Thaumaturge, wherein the Princes of Glantri meet to discuss...
Once home to a wizarding lineage now extinct in Glantri, this hillside keep in Erewan has fallen into the hands of the Woebringers, a band of Chaotic adventurers, cultists and all-around marauders....