Dungeons & Dragons & Daughters

True to their new slogan, TBD chooses death with the troupe of eight perytons that have been making Alagarthas’ life miserable in his attempt to light the beacons and get home.  In this episode, we officially make the switch to Dungeons & Dragons 5.5 rules and the players get to try out some of the new mechanics and their new skills with the rule set change!

The beginning of this episode gets serious as we discuss the impact that ICE has had on the state of Minnesota.  Parents use your discretion.  

The actual adventure starts around the 15 minute mark.  In this episode TBD finds that they need to defend Amador, the giant dandelion knight, and Pollenella, the giant queen honey bee, from a rampaging Cyclops bee keeper!  It all could have been avoided if they just had better communication skills, but as Lyrup realizes by the end, and all of TBD is convinced as well, it’s friendship or death!

TBD makes their way out of Thither and towards Yon.  But before they leave Thither completely behind they run into another resident that seems to have a case of mistaken identity.  Eventually the group does make it to Yon, with Squirt’s help through the mountains.  Here they are introduced to the realm of Endelyn Moongrave in all the realm’s dark and stormy glory.  The group also wastes no time in running into additional people in Yon, but it remains to be seen if they are friends or foes.

The breakfast dudes have to deal with Skabatha the hag’s really angry garden!  But it’s not like a vegetable garden, and Pinky really has to show off her spells for the group to get through it.  The group figures out where they want to go next, and Tude adopts a new coping mechanism for dealing with the group’s chaotic energy.

With the group divided in Skabatha’s stronghold of Loomlurch, Lyrup works on freeing the prisoners in the kitchen, while the entire rest of the party moves on to Skabatha’s bedroom to find their lost things.  Lyrup is successful through stubborn tenacity - while the rest of TBD is successful through murder and thievery (is it still murder if they’re undead?).  TBD does become reunited; just in time for another encounter with a hag!