EPIC Minecraft Dungeons & Dragons Adventure!

Hey glad you made it I’m really happy that you’re willing to give this game a shot it’s one of my favorite things to do with friends between the role playing strategy and just being goofy with each other it’s always a great time time D and D has something for every kind of

Player now you said the other day that you wanted to just get kind of an intro experience before joining my regular campaign group so I figured a more individual sort of experience would be a good way of showing you the ropes give you an idea of what the experience can feel

Like just take a seat whenever you feel like getting started I’ve got snacks that should last us until the end of the universe so help yourself to those too good to go okay so first things first let’s choose your class I’ve got the basics already written up for a few

Of them so you only need to worry about picking one do you want to be a holy warrior with the ability to heal yourself and smite your foes with the power of your deity Paladin might be the way to go oh or maybe a wizard using your magic to

Blast bad guys Skyhigh with Fireballs while deflecting incoming attacks H but a rogue could be fun too hit and run tactics poison your enemies and watching them succumb to the Venom so satisfying but it’s also lots of fun to just be a barbarian with a big ax

Barbarians can get so angry that they just kind of forget that they’ve been hit and keep hacking away I’ve always had a hard time choosing when I’m a player so take your time okay next let’s allocate your stats you want me to explain how stats and dice rolling work in this game stats

Determine what you’re good at each stat has a use in combat but they can also apply to roleplaying situations and other things you do while adventuring in the world whenever you roll the 20-sided die you’ll add whichever stat applies to the roll so say you’ve got a plus three in

Wisdom and need to see if someone is telling the truth you would roll the D20 and add three to whatever you rolled that Insight check would show how well you’re able to read that person’s intentions and emotions Rolling High means you can understand them and see through any lies

They might be telling rolling low means that you believe whatever they’re saying within reason of course if you roll a 20 on that die then you’ll almost certainly succeed at whatever you’re trying to do or at least get useful info though let’s try an example you are

Speaking to a Tavern keeper asking after some local Bandits that you’ve been hired to hunt down he talks easily enough but he says that he has no information on these people or where to find them okay you rolled a 10 so add three to that with a 13 you notice him tense

And almost physically withdraw when you ask him about the bandits giving you the sense that he’s hiding something and knows more about the situation than he’s letting on that’s pretty much it rolling a 20 when you hit someone in a fight also counts as a critical hit and

Doubles how much damage you do to them rolling a one on that die though can be really bad news sometimes it just means failing whatever you’re doing sometimes it means failing so spectacularly that you I don’t know fall down a flight of stairs out of a window

And into a pen of screaming goats okay probably not that specifically but you get the idea you’ll also see that your class already has stats that will best support their abilities how you add your extra stat points is up to you do you want to make them better at

What they already do or do you want to balance them out a bit you’ll get more stat points to distribute as we play so don’t worry about this step too much and like that you’ve made your first character congrats now how about we Dive Right into things let me just set the scene

For you the continent of fyon has seen hundreds of stories turn into Legends the dawn age when dwarves overthrew the tyrannical Giants and elves waged war against evil dragons thereby carving out a place in the world for small folk the tyranny of the Rose Dragon when the

Great red worm y aisar nearly raised cuman and established her cruel EMP the time of troubles when celestials and fiends alike were cast from their own Realms Waring and laying waste to the Mortal plane in their efforts to reclaim their Divine [Applause] Positions Yet each great story has great people steering The Narrative the rose dragon’s Empire only fell because rfak Al kajan and his companions slew the evil Beast the times of troubles ended because those like the Mage midnight Rose to the occasion in their case taking the mantle of divinity from the slain Celestial

Mistra until she could be [Applause] Resurrected Now we come to the precipice of another such event a budding Calamity that could warp reality as we know it though there is no prophesized chosen one no foreseen savior if you play your cards right you might just be able to avert what is to come or perhaps your story will simply

Serve as a cautionary tale for those who survive despite this it all starts with something as mundane as fetching groceries for your [Applause] Parents We open on nashkel a village on the Northern slopes of the cloud Peaks the late spring rains have abated making the Tre across town to deliver a commission to your father at least a bit less muddy as you make your way back along the main street though it is hard not to notice

That your otherwise quiet home is riddled with strained whispered Conversations standing behind his produce stand is Eric one of the farmers living on The Village’s outskirts you have known him for most of your life though he is still young and smile lines have only just begun to crease the sides of his eyes your father said you’d be along to

Pick up his purchase I don’t envy him his back problems as if he didn’t have enough to deal with already as the headman anyhow here you go I’m sure he appreciates having you around to do all the heavy lifting for him thanks Eric sure thing just make sure to get home

Safe take care Eric mhm see you Around You hear voices from inside your house Perhaps it is worth waiting and listening in then I just heard about it this morning does anyone else Know I caught one of The Trackers before he could go out to look for helsa he said he’d check it out while the trail was still warm if there was one but I don’t know if he told anyone else First we’ll after assume that he did people are already starting to panic and this will make it worse I heard people at the market this morning talking about unfamiliar monsters no one had seen the things themselves but the rumors are bad Enough this goes on and you’ll have a mob at your front door to ing answers I’m surprised we haven’t seen one already you’ve got to get ahead of this so what are you going to do about [Applause] it give me a minute I’ve got an idea but

I want to talk it over with Katra first you’re welcome to stay if you like they should be back [Applause] soon ah there you are put the food on the table and come talk to me there’s something we need to [Applause] discuss listen you’ve heard about the people going missing I’m not going to sugarcoat this but the whole kelit family is gone now ner found their Farm

Empty this morning without even a sign of struggle this is asking a lot and I’ve got a feeling your mother’s going to kill me after I say this then don’t say it but I need you to go speak with endand drav and ask for his help you’re right I think I will

Throttle you are you insane people are going missing and you think sending Katra out into the woods by themselves is somehow a good idea I have to agree with illen they’d make a tempting Target The Trackers have been going on their own and no one’s bothered them

Besides after all the training I’ve put Katra through they should be fine on their own yes but you could just send one of The Trackers or someone else I want the trackers to keep looking for our people other than them there’s no one else I’d trust in the woods more

Than Katra after all the times you’ve run off into there as a kid you probably know the paths better than most of the villagers and Vier is important his ego probably won’t let him talk to just a random villager ner could go but she doesn’t know how to fight and I don’t

Want the community’s Healer to be missing for a whole day if someone breaks their arm and you’re not worried what by year might do to them unless kadra does something really stupid which I would trust them not to they’ll be fine mom if I can help the village then

I’m happy to do it besides I was just in the woods yesterday looking for berries and I was fine I was hoping you’d say that this isn’t exactly a enviable task I’m proud of you now endand draayer is a proud creature he has the wisdom of the ages and probably knows something that

We don’t but there’s a good chance he won’t help us for free just on principle if he doesn’t I want you to offer him money this pouch has 100 gold coins in it 100 where did you get that kind of money I took you from The Village’s emergency fund I’d say this counts

Rounded it out to 100 using money we were saving for a new roof start with a low offer like 30 and work your way up unless you think you’re going to insult him or lose his interest whatever help or advice you can give will be welcome if we’re lucky he might already know

Where our missing people are or where to look a bird’s eye view could show them what we need I still think that this is a bad idea if I’m being honest it probably is a bad idea but it’s the only one we’ve got right I guess I’ll head out now then

Oh before you go do you want to do a quick sparring match couldn’t hurt to brush up on your Technique just in case yeah that sounds like a good idea E [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] he one more thing I’m sure you can find your way and don’t want me fussing over you but in case something happens you should take your father’s old wayfinder thanks I’ll take good care of it just be careful and come back in one piece we’ll be waiting for you with some dinner [Applause] ready [Applause] what is is whoa stay back [Applause] okay wasn’t expecting that I wonder if they got something to do with what’s going on guess this is it unless this wayfinder led me to some old Al bear Den okay then Why why do you do this Release Me nothing what was That as you reach for the coin that seem to suck the life from endan D ear you note a crack running down its face whatever these people want with it you doubt they should have it the moment you touch the metallic surface though A jolt of energy seers through your fingers and

Up your arm followed by a sense of pressure as if the ocean’s tide were rushing into your flesh recoiling the coin has aded to your fingertips bound there even as you feel that the Force pouring from it stretches your skin and crushes your bones threatening to rupture and burst your entire

Body other than your body though it is the coin that bursts erupting into shards of metal as the same light that flowed into it early as streams into you the physical pain abates though something continues to press on your mind cloring its way into your thoughts and filling your skull as the

World around you distorts and turns insensible chaotic and then finally Dark what what happened where is who are you what have you done to me I don’t know answer me please stop who are you what are you doing to me who who am I will ask again who are you what happened to those people in my cave

Your cave who or what are you do not play games child I am d a and you will answer my questions my name’s Katra I I live in the nearby Village you you’re saying you’re the dragon do not play games with me child now answer my questions what

Happened in my cave and what have you done to me I wasn’t with those people and I only saw the last part when when that weird coin started doing something it looked like they were pulling something out of you and then some thing was put into your body I think I thought they’d

Killed you they might have what do you remember they I I remember they they must have trapped my soul in that coin I I have heard of artifacts that can do such I had never expected that it would be so painful though it it felt like I

Was being torn and pulled apart then crushed until I could not even tell what part of my body I was feeling I suppose though that I was not feeling my body at all after that I saw the thing seeping out of my body but I could not see if it if I was

Breathing everything after is unclear it hurts to remember I was still reeling when the next thing I clearly saw was your face a moment before I felt my felt that transfer again then we were here now we need to return me to my do you smell smoke

Yeah I’m going home I need to see if anything is happened this is a waste of time you need to find the people who took my body immediately only after I see if they went to my Village first they may have done Something No no No Mom Dad ready har tanel anyone the house what happened to the house Mom Dad help someone help someone tell me what so there is someone left oh I figured there would be a few of you pumpkins left scurrying about like rats well we can’t have you going and

Squealing to your neighbors about us no we want things to be quiet and peaceful so you will have to come with us what have you done to my home where is everyone take or kill them we’ll have no Witnesses today I can’t this this was my home not anymore it would seem why would they do this where is everyone do you actually expect an answer to that question or or are you simply asking empty questions to hear yourself speak no it’s just this is a lot to process and I feel

Sick H we do not have time for you to be pathetic your little village is gone accept that and move on that’s cool and not appreciate right now I understand that you’re upset but I am too so can you please lay off h fine so what are we supposed to do now I

Don’t have a home and you don’t have a body and I’m not letting you take over mine I do not think that I could even if I tried as much as it Galls me to admit it all I can do is hurt you I think that

I could kill you if I truly wished but that would likely end my life too that’s good to know we shall hunt the people who took my body we will will find a way for you to put me back and I can force answers out of those

Treacherous eels perhaps you can use the coin again to set things right but it exploded when I touched it it felt like something was being forced into me before I blacked out that must have been when you came H without the coin I doubt that you would have been able to restore

Me anyhow much less after whatever that monster of theirs did to me in the time since it seemed to be fusing with my form it might have been feeding but that was not the impression I felt so I’ve got the same question as before what now short of purging my soul

From your body which I would not recommend lest you want me to destroy the both of us first you will need to put me into another vessel ideally though that vessel will be my own original body purified of whatever has come to infest it if you your villagers

Were taken by this group then finding where they have taken me will also lead you to the answers you seek sure but I don’t know anything about healing dragons or moving Souls from one body to another how are we supposed to do all of that or even find these people H I think

That the best course now would be to seek the advice of the scholars in kendle keep it is relatively close and hosts the greatest collection of knowledge in fyon that I am aware of anyhow if anyone would know of a cure or be able to devise one and be able to

Tell us more about this group of people that attacked me then we will almost certainly find them in kandle keep’s Great Library rather than walk the whole way see if that man with the cart is heading north preserve your strength while you can I think that’s actually the first

Good usable advice you’ve given me do not push your luck with such frequent SAR M child find the cart and let us leave M lift after nearly 2 weeks of walking leaving over a 100 miles of the Coast Road behind you candle keep’s soaring spires are finally close enough to

Reveal their details set a top a craggy penin Rising above the Sea of Swords The Fortress overlooks a surrounding Farm land while keeping a healthy distance from the wild and shadowy cloak [Applause] wood at last I had forgotten how long it can take to travel when one does not have wings with which to fly it certainly seems tedious remember remember candle keep is the home of the avowed the greatest Scholars on the continent be respectful follow their rules and try not to let

Anything too uncivilized come out of your mouth let’s get [Applause] Going these fields look almost untended and I do not hear any Farm hands or livestock have these places been abandoned for some some reason keep a keen eye out if these people fled their homes they must have had a good reason to do [Applause] [Applause] so [Applause] is we’re starting to wonder if you’d actually stopped to talk what do you need to warn us about well the guards aren’t going to let you in I saw you coming up the road and it’s pretty clear you’re not from here so I was going to let you in even

To the court of air why aren’t they letting strangers in people to go and miss it in the area Travelers and Locos alike those Farms you pass by for example there the families that live there just up and fished no sign of an attack or anything so the people in

Charge are getting right paranoid and only allowing residents to enter the city so how do we get in if you going to enter candle keep you’re going to need a residence pass they handed them out to all the locals in their jurisdiction but was pretty rushed and with my special set of

Skills I can make one that will fo the Cs into letting you through the C what do you say 25 gold and the documents will be all yours fine we have a deal good now I can’t make this pass from nothing and I sold my last copy a

Week ago so you’ll need to find one of your own that I can modify look at those farm houses oh the families there were either taken or left in a hurry there might have one or two lying around bring back a copy plus payment and I’ll get to

Work be careful though the people are gone but I’ve heard some rustling around there and strange sounds never seen anything but givs me to creeps and I think I saw someone go into one of those houses maybe the stay the night but I never saw them come out probably just

Missed him though good [Applause] luck Of course we have to do the leg work we I’m the one doing all the work you’re just along for the ride I will contribute as best I can my advice by itself could prove invaluable yeah if you ever give it what is this thing some sort of construct it would

Seem I would presume that it is guarding this house unless someone left it with more malicious intentions thanks but that advice isn’t helping me to kill [Applause] it just tear it apart if it cannot hold itself together it is no threat to think you needed my help to figure even that out [Applause] Oh A huh finally what were those things doing on a farm I don’t think seagulls justify that level of [Applause] protection no perhaps they wandered here Rogue constructs are not unheard of still you might learn something if you look around then again what have scarecrows to do with our mission not much I

Guess Katra I’m going to try something do not be alarmed if things start to look different wait what wa okay what’s going on I said not to be alarmed I was uncertain if I could do this while in your body but my intimate connection to the material plane allows

Me certain privileges of perception when plain speak please Village kid remember of course in essence I can see some elements of magic how enchantments work their origin or nature what they draw power from it depends on the situation but you get the gist of it perhaps this

Will help on occasion though I must admit that it is somewhat taxing to use this ability with your body please be quick folded and then stuffed haphazardly among a pile of now rotting onions you find a piece of parchment marked with an official looking seal entitled evidence of residence in the candle keepy

Territories a bit wordy and a bit more aromatic than you’d like but it should do the trick good now return to that individual scratch let us hope that he is adequate to the task hope or not we don’t have any other options to resort to Vier why must you insist on calling me

That it’s what everyone in the village called you it’s easier than saying your full Name be glad that I am a magnanimous and forgiving Dragon else I would be inclined to start tearing up your mind again don’t worry you’re already a big enough headache as it Is ah is that a bit of legal documentation I see there and smell okay well you work with what you’ve got right give me a bit to scrape off and refinish the important parts then I’ll start with color match and then confirming handwriting and your eyes are glazing over just just just

Give me the goods and wait a [Applause] [Applause] bit [Applause] and here you go certification that you Absolut absolutely belong to the area and can come and go as you like just don’t let any Wizards near it they get curious theyve probably got spells or something that can sniff out of forgery

Otherwise her no one will ever be the wiser it’s all the Castle [Applause] Papers please here’s my resident certificate the guard glances at the paper noting the seal and the signatures that does not peer too closely watching him scrunch up his nose the cursory inspection might have to do with not wanting to put his face too close to the smell of rancid

Onions all right everything looks fine head on in just keep an eye out for any strange activity passing through the city walls you are dumped into a large open Square that seems to double as a Marketplace it is not exactly brimming with life but considering how you’ve lived nearly all

Of your life in a small village the number of people in one place is staggering and the activity threatens to be overwhelming good that was tedious but we made it now the next part could be problematic only the avowed and certain others are allowed into the inner Ward through the

Emerald door on the far side of this Courtyard talk to the keeper there and determine what is required to get in and speak with one of the experts what business have you here child I wish to speak with one of the researchers you and everyone else do you

Have an appointment or a letter of introduction what if I told you that I am sharing this body with the soul of a dragon that had their body abducted by cultists and that we are looking for a way to bring him back to his original form H not another another one of these

There’s always some vagrant spouting about being cursed or needing to find evidence of their Royal lineage or some other such nonsense if you truly believe that Dragon business then you do not need a Scholar’s help you need a doctor so that they can check your head thank you for your time my

Pleasure this is unacceptable we must find find someone to assist us and soon I can only imagine what those monsters are doing with my body and already I chafe it being confined to yours wow thanks well do you happen to know where we could find a rare or

Unique book no distasteful as this may be we might have to find another dubiously legal way around this problem actually I remember passing a sewer grate earlier if there are sewers for this outer area then they surely have some for the inner Ward so you want me to break into a

Sewer sneak through ugma knows what kind of Filth and then break into the inner Ward to what kidnap or threaten a scholar into helping us presumably we would be able to find someone more reasonable or at least amenable to our request however we cannot do that from

Out here the sewers are our only option right now you only say this because you won’t have to to smell what I do actually I will you think I only see through your eyes child I am bound to experience everything that you do believe me sharing in your bodily

Functions these past weeks has been far from enjoyable e okay point taken uh sewer as it is then I guess this is what living in a city means how can one place produce so much Fils You sounded as if you knew what you were getting Into I thought I did didn’t think it’d be this Plentiful the the byproduct of civilization people are [Applause] messy player are you Okay do not call me that it’s strange even without a body or the need to breathe I feel a tightness in my chest lightheadedness I I think that it would be best to spend as little time in here as possible [Applause] [Applause] a please hurry through this place all right let’s make this Quick that is the right direction and it seems to no longer be sewers Beyond this point these are probably the tunnels running beneath the inner Ward I have heard of catacombs vaults Labs much of the work and knowledge of the avow is down here it seems unfortunately there

Is a ward on the door you will need need to find a key unless you wish to be [Applause] Fried [Applause] uh no no I [Applause] don’t wait look at that on the ground there’s nothing on the Ground Precisely helpful the rest of this place is a riot of grime and muck child yet this path is almost spotless I would be willing to bet half of my entire horde that a gelatinous cube has come this Way a what now an oozing monster that inhabits places like this some people and more intelligent creatures keep them as witless Guardians and janitors the things absorb and dissolve any animal or plant material they touch as a way of eating they cannot dissolve metals and other non-living things though so they

Can carry the equipment and goods of whomever they have eaten for some Time Whomever as in people of course do not be dense child now follow this Trail you might find something interesting floating in the Cube’s body just be careful though as they can be transparent and thus easy to overlook [Applause] there look the thing has a key inside of

It it must have eaten a maintenance worker or one of the avowed that might get us out of the sewers and into the clean part we saw earlier just don’t let the creature suck you up [Applause] please H yes it looks as if an enchantment quite similar to the one on the locked doors embedded in this key it should work to get us Through and what if it sets off the Trap then you had best hoped that the mage who put it there said it more as a deterrent rather than a [Applause] defense okay okay just going to open the door the magically trap door stuffed with potentially lethal lightning right Okay And still alive right well that’s uh that’s good Yeah Oh be not so dramatic you can find much worse before we are done here I have heard tell that there are Guardians and occasional escaped experiments down here though that may just be Rumor Wow thanks the possibility of even greater danger certainly sets my mind at ease thanks [Applause] fire stop calling me [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] that [Applause] [Applause] A A [Applause] Oh a