Brythwin Island Sessions 0-2 - The Landing - First Two Days

I haven't posted to the blog in nearly a month, which is not usual for me, but it's because I've been building a big dungeon campaign and, for the first time in years (and first ever for an OSR style game!), running it for some people from the phloxserver. As with the DEGRADER playtest, actually running systems that you've been spinning around in your head in the abstract does a lot of teaching very quickly. I'd like to do some reports as the game progresses, in order to better organise my thinking around what's working and what isn't. But first, the session report (the wonderful EcksianRaven, or 'Glaumring', has put up one of the own here):The Swallows, a rag-tag crew of Baronial fixers only recently brought together by circumstance, arrive in the court of Petty Queen Gloran, and are charged with travelling to nearby Brythwin lake. Their mission is to put an end to the magical, perpetual storm that rages there, and to slay or drive off the monsters that have been emerging from it.…