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This episode begins with the team preparing to enter into combat. Several dog-sized animals begin to approach from an upper-level. The creatures, quadrupeds, have strong muscular bodies to tolerate the
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The story continues with the team debating on how best to make some credits, while they wait to hear from their first client on some further work in a couple
The story continues with the team onboard the Argo, attempting to unload two large boxes of pre-tech parts, as well as a military crate labelled “FORCE DOME”. They hear footsteps
Tales from Trantor presents: Stellar Drift, a Stars Without Number podcast series, using the revised edition ruleset, created by Kevin Crawford. The cast for this series include: The story begins
The party prepare themselves for battle, facing off against Vasarus, the recently reanimated mage that once caused the Necrophage. Roman shouts to the party to help him, asking them to
Continue readingStudents of Strixhaven EP 31 – Schools Out Part Eight (Finale)
As the party prepare to depart from Inkaran, Grae quickly runs back to the forge to speak with Ezan. She recalls him mentioning Katria Clearseeker, and wants to know about
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Arth is back (for a short time!). We take a moment to briefly review what Arth has been up to, including meeting with Professor Deekah on Quandrix campus. She asks
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The story continues with the party deciding to make camp in the outskirts of the dwarven settlement Inkaran. Trix wraps up collecting the carapaces required for trade with the mage
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Preparing to travel to Inkaran, an abandoned dwarven settlement, the party consider their resources. They ask Amelia for some snacks for the road, and realise they can detour via the
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The story continues with the party in the city of Rutledge, talking with Jhazaal in Malthus Tavern. As Jhazaal steps away to grab drinks, Trix enquires on Grae’s relationship with
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The party quickly move to review Khorvus’ wounds, as he was left unconcious from the last battle. Arth (with Luke being absent, the GM takes over) casts Aid, granting Khorvus
Continue readingStudents of Strixhaven EP 25 – Schools Out Part Two
Welcome to School’s Out, an eight-part story arc featuring members of the Strixhaven series on another D&D adventure. This arc includes our first ‘guest’ on the podcast, a good friend
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The party stand in the security office at Quandrix, with Vestan having just been plane shifted away by an unknown assailant. They wrap things up with Captain Annette Dawn, with
Recovering from their long night hunting down and capturing Vestan, the party travel back to their dorm and rest. Out of game, this presents an opportunity for the party to
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The party take a moment to heal and assess the situation, having just fought off a Shadow Demon, summoned by Vestan. As they prepare to leave and find where Vestan
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Seeing Elias meet with Vestan in the park, the party decide to follow Vestan, possibly finding where he goes using his ‘professor’ robes that make up his Rodane disguise. He
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Leaving Garak’s warehouse with some additional coin and spell scrolls, the party go back to Snorge to let him know their side of the deal is done. Snorge is surprised
Continue readingStudents of Strixhaven EP 19 – Unscramble An Egg
Having agreed to ‘put the heat’ on some students that owe Snorge’s employers, the party travel to a nearby warehouse where Garak Tolade and a group of students known as
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Celebrating their recent win in Silkball, the party come back to their schoolwork. For this third and final trimester, everyone chooses an elective of their choice: Their shared class, Magical
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The episode continues with the party arriving at the Silkball stadium. The best way to describe Silkball is like a combination of dodgeball and lacrosse. For those interested, Ben and
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The party head off to their elective classes to finish up their second trimester for the year. Arth, having signed up for Beginning Computational Magic, arrives at a large lecture
Continue readingStudents of Strixhaven EP 15 – A Night to Remember
The players discuss their character’s level three abilities: Back in-game, the party continue making their way down from the temple, with Arth having packed away the amulet securely in a
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Arth continues going with Darius to the “Collective for Strixhaven Development” meetings, but finds that Vestan is reluctant to share much information outside of his “selected” group members. Trix feels
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The party continue following Vestan, who they suspect is also “Rodane”, a figure who in Quandrix professor attire asked Edolkar to return a parcel to Candlekeep, which secretly contained Blight
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As the episode begins, we discuss what Khorvus got up to during the trimester break, having taken part in a Dragonsguard Reserve Corps endurance weekend. Deep in the Lorehold Badlands,
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The story continues with the party consisting of Arth, Edolkar and Trix in the long-abandoned Dwarven mining caverns. Arth’s sister, Celeste, was caught in a trap, and has now been
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This session begins as the trimester has finished, and many students and faculty have taken advantage of the break in classes to see family or travel before classes resume in
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As the trimester continues, the party consider how their classes have gone through homework checks (needing to meet a difficulty check of 12) Everyone discusses what their characters get up
The small gnome, located in this hidden room, continues to shout out into the darkness, clutching for his glasses and calling for someone named “Jeremus”. Edolkar steps forward, and calmly
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As the episode begins, the group discuss their character advancements to 2nd level. Some of the highlights include: As the story continues, the party stand in the Gardens of Growth,
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The party move off separately to take part in their chosen electives classes. Arth and Trix go to their Introduction to Archaemancy class. Arriving at a lecture hall, Trix and
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The story continues on the day after the party has completed the orientation challenge and found their accommodation in a small cottage a few minutes from central campus. With their
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Arth, Edolkar, Khorvus, Trix and Darius stand in the Biblioplex, the grand library and centrepiece of the Strixhaven campus. With two orientation challenges complete (for both Silverquill and Lorehold), they
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The party, consisting of Arth, Edolkar, Khorvus, Trix and Darius, continue to follow a large, tree-like Treant, who is directing them towards the Witherbloom campus, out of the Detention Bog.
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Welcome to Students of Strixhaven! This is Episode 1 in the new campaign, based on the Strixhaven sourcebook by Wizards of the Coast. If you want some pre-game discussion on
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Welcome to Students of Strixhaven! This episode is what we call a “Session Zero”, which is a pre-story episode where we discuss the characters everyone has made, briefly talk about
Students of Strixhaven is the latest campaign adventure by Tales from Trantor, played using the Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) 5th edition rules. Four students find themselves caught up in campus life
This is a one-shot episode, which takes place before the Brace the Badlands campaign. This means you don’t need to have listened to the main series, but there might be
This is a one-shot episode, which takes place before the Brace the Badlands campaign. This means you don’t need to have listened to the main series, but there might be
This is a one-shot episode, which takes place before the Brace the Badlands campaign. This means you don’t need to have listened to the main series, but there might be
This is a one-shot episode, which takes place before the Brace the Badlands campaign. This means you don’t need to have listened to the main series, but there might be
Inside the administration building of the refinery, the crew continue to investigate the rooms, looking for Rayze. They head upstairs, passing make-shift bedrooms and into a kitchen. Towards the back
Continue readingEP 24 – A Taste of Your Own Medicine (Finale)
The crew continue their discussion about the Raffen Shiv and how to deal with the Oildale Gangers, including Rayze, their leader. Gunhead proposes that there might be a way to
Rama launches one last blast with the flamethrower, piercing the tank’s engine as it bursts alight. He then collapses to the ground in exhaustion. Kobeck moves to quickly shoot one
Gunhead and Nathan are both buckled into Fennec’s CH-53 Sikorsky Sea Stallion, while Rez, Rama and Kobeck prepare to drop on the MAXTAC AV-4 aircraft, being piloted by Lyon. Fennec
Out of game, the players discuss how to spend their “Improvement Points” (IP), which is similar to an experience or milestone reward system for their character development. The players have
Rez approaches Warren, who took damage in the last firefight. She stabilises his wounds using her Paramedic skill, and then moves to assess Gunhead’s burn wounds. She is able to
As Fennec’s car comes into a stop in the lobby of the corporate lobby, the crew enter into initiative order. In round one, Rama starts and, using the cover from
The crew spend about 15 minutes in the hired taxi before arriving in a part of Koreatown, in downtown L.A. The driver asks for his fare, with Rez paying him.
While they wait to meet at the Pacific Private Rail train station, Rama sends an outbound message via his agent, providing a tip off to the Night City Police Department
The crew head into the hired car service and debate on what to do with some downtime before they have to meet with Connor Stewart. They agree to head into
Having not heard from Gunhead in some time, the rest of the crew visit the Computer Science lab to speak with him. They encounter Gunhead arguing with Kave about single
The crew find Oliver Krans in the University and speak with him about his requirements to schedule a recurring nomad resupply deal. Oliver informs them he used to be part
As the crew return from their earlier expedition to the library in the Country Club, they debate on what to do next. Rez accesses a computer terminal, and confirms the
Out of game, the players discuss options for upgrading their character stats through the use of Improvement Points (IP). Ze (Rama) invests points in Drive Land Vehicle (to help with
The crew wake up after their late night interrogation and re-group in the University’s cafeteria building. VC gets up to speed on what the crew performed last night, primarily kidnapping
After a few days rest, the crew regroup to decide on the next job to do. Gunhead continues working away with Kave on the Bakersfield CitiNET, while VC is working
Rez works with Fennec to prepare the barrels of acid that the mysterious figure “placed” into the crowd. Gunhead runs a Pathfinder check, and identifies the remaining programs within the
Heading into the former downtown area of Bakersfield, the crew arrive to inspect the area for buildings that may still house tech that Kave would be able to use to
The crew meet with their respective counterparts and get briefed on what each team needs to get the University into a functional state. Collectively, they decide to first assist Son
Fennec’s brake manoeuvre doesn’t work as well as he planned, with the two motorbike riders attacking them swerving out of the way at the last moment. Meanwhile, in the NET,
Gunhead, Fennec, Rez and VC head back to the Recyclands office in Fennec’s car, while Rama detours via a local police district to drop off the gangers he picked up
VC’s flash bang lands upstairs and blinds a ganger, but also gets caught in the blast. Fietro, the ganger boss, manages to dodge out of the way at the last
Gunhead continues to navigate through the old medical warehouse’s localNET. He encounters a Raven black ICE program and prepares to fight it with a Sword program. In a single attack,
The year is 2045. Night City is a sprawling region on the western coast of the United States, nestled between L.A. and San Francisco. The city itself is still recovering
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