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Names: Clarence, Jack, Volos, Harsh and Dungrin.(TPK)
Class: Cleric, Fighter, Sorcerer, Rogue and Fighter 19
Adventure: Into the Wormcrawl Fissure
Location: The final Cavern
Catalyst: Dragotha

I've seen alot of complaints about Dragotha being weak. Let me help you out

1. Advance him to Great Wyrm
2. Change out some of his bad feats for metabreath ones. I like extended, spreading and quicken
3. Do not have him cast spells with the exception of ones like breath weapon substitution and time stop
4. Have the fight in a big open cavern, seriously like he's going to sit in an enclosed space
5. Give him the arcane strike feat, just in case he is having issues hitting. Highly doubtful but still a better use of his spells IMO
6. And like all boss fights in my games, give him minions

Party has defeated the wormdrake and his two gated in frostworms. Dragotha flies in and blasts the party with fire. this pretty much eliminated their pro fire spell and then quicken the deathwind breath weapon. My group had this thing about not casting death ward. They also were pretty low on resources.
I told them that they did not have to go on but they insisted they could handle it

So long story short Dragotha lands and begins wrecking people. He was dropping one per rd. Again i asked about the miracle/ greater t-port spells They chose the mass heal route. To quote the indiana jones movie "They chose poorly"

I suppose I am now expected to come up with some post-apocalyptic campaign

Man, did this dude pick the wrong area to spam.

Anyway, I am prepping DoaNa and can confirm that the second part of the rod is available.

Also a new Vecna mod is being released for 5e and I believe the rod plays a major part

Name: Harsh
Class: Rogue 19
Adventure: Into the Wormcrawl Fissure
Location: The final Cavern
Catalyst: Maximized Disintegrate

This one is pretty straightforward, Our friend failed a fort save vs a 20th level Maxed disintegrate from a Gibbering Orb. What can i say High level play is quite deadly

Today is the day that my group faces off against the Dracolich Dragotha. I wish them luck. lord knows they are going to need it

Age of Worms

My group have made it into Dragotha's cavern and had a lovely battle with Venk(19th level warlock) riding an advanced wyvern, Loris Raknian, now a deathknight with his trusty nightcrawler steed, 6 overworms and being harassed by the avolokias inside the castle. nice appetizer that they crushed.

Upon entering the citadel, the first three guys had to make 7 saves vs. suggestion from the avolokias waiting on the inside. Magic Circle trivializes the encounter. The fighter and the rogue enter and then my avolokias start using wall of stone to block the entrance as well as divide the group.

Good battle, plenty of drama. next session is the main course with the Dracolich

Another Green World- Brian Eno

Well my guys have begun Part 11 of AOW, they had a fun encounter getting in the middle of a lovers quarrel between the lillend bard/sorcerer and a slightly crazy lich. They were not expecting a talky encounter

They then had a nice battle at the entrance to Dragothas domain featuring some earthcancer centipedes, mindkiller scorpions and a 17th level Ulgurstasta(sp) sorcerer Of the three empowered disintegrates I got off only one stuck.

Fairytale of New York-Pogues

A great christmas song and a fine tribute to the recently departed Shayne MacGowan

Todd Rundgrens Utopia

Getting ready to run my guys through part 11 of Age of Worms

The group finished off Kings of the Rift and are now 19th level, the look on the players faces when told they were being assaulted by 33 dragons was priceless. They have found and destroyed the Dracoliches phylactery. I did add a little something extra to the phylactery as I thought just smashing it seemed a bit boring.

They used divination to determine how to destroy the phylactery by smashing it with a holy weapon while being held in the hands of an innocent child and then having to kill said child as the dracoliches soul was now in the child. They figured out a way to do so by simply resurrecting a volunteer from their home town. Honestly, I had no specifics set for this, it was just a thought exercise.

Now they are off to simply destroy the very pissed off Dracolich

Tower of Song=Leonard Cohen

Mambo Sun-T-Rex

Planet Queen-T-Rex

Love me some Electric Warrior

And one more before before bed

Mystical Adventures-Jean Luc Ponty

I love all this guys stuff

Hot Rats-Frank Zappa

Still fantastic 54 years later

Name: Harsh
Class: Rogue 18
Adventure: Kings of the Rift
Location: In the Stinky pit
Catalyst: Scouting in a cave featuring a hidden kaiju

Scouting is great until it's not. This scout was walking.( Why he chose to walk is another discussion) along the moss covered floor of the cavern when he was surprised by the Kaiju Carrion crawler. 9 attacks later he was paste.

And now for the fun part, They just heard horns and bells going off above them in the city. My cleric has a preceptor archon via planar ally who informed them that the city is about to be hit by 30+ Dragons. The look on the players faces was priceless

So I am always on the lookout for good game background music, This is nice and Doomy. I think I'll use this for a mini-boss fight. Kinda like Lost Astronaut

Red Planet-Cosmic Lord

In my gaming career of 40+ years, I have used one song for the BBEG fight

Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath

While I'm rambling, I first heard this when I was like 13 and it scared the crap out of me, I absolutely loved it!

No doubt, always had a good time at his shows

Latin Kick-Cal Tjader

Really nice on a summer afternoon

I watch a lot of movies.

Actually, strike that. I watch a lot of bad movies. And some tv series.

I find that the worse the tv show or the movie, the more I get inspired by it. Completely over the top NPCs, insane plots, and weird plot holes. Pretty much like any game session I've been a part of, essentially.

I also surf weird parts of the web. The SCP Foundation has been a consistent place where I can go to look at items. I tend to want different impulses from all over the board before something gels.

DeviantArt is a great resource for inspirational graphics. The worldbuilding subreddit a good place for maps, tips, and so on. I tend to have the visual first, and then build a story around that. That way, I ensure that I can show, don't tell.

Various conspiracy theories are also good, because they show how something can start out pretty reasonable, and then go off the deep end.

Good tv shows and movies, of course, can also be useful. But, ironically, I find that the bad ones are better for me.

Waiting for the Ice Cream to Melt- Pink Fairies

My group of 15th level murder machines are about to start Prince of Redhand(8th installment of AOW). They are a hardy bunch, only five deaths in SoLS

Motörhead. LOUDLY.

Is there any other way to listen to Motorhead?

Sugar Man-Rodriguez

Stratus-Billy Cobham

Tommy Bolin on Guitar when he was 22 and Jan Hammer on Synth

Lotus Feet- John McLaughlin, Jean-Luc Ponty, Zakir Hussain

Three masters of their craft

Into Thin Air- Glass Hammer

Chattanooga, They don't have Prog Rock in Chattanooga

Light on the Path-Brian Auger

I am going to do a rerun of this fantastic AP as well, using some of the excellent suggestions in Plot tweakings for TfOe

LOOMS

This place is sa-winging

Spam, spam, delicious spam

Thanks, he lived 85 Blessed years and passed in his sleep painlessly and retained his mental faculties. Really, what more could you ask for

Cosmic Messenger- Jean-Luc Ponty
I was first introduced to JLP through Zappa and he's been with me ever since
Waiter, There's a Yawn in my Ear- Manfred Mann
If your only exposure to MM is Blinded by the light, I highly advise exploring his stuff
Stationary Traveller- Camel
I can't explain how much I love this song, What a band, What an awesome guitarist
The Gates of Delirium-Yes
I have a strange relationship with Yes, Jon Anderson's Vocals sometime irritate me but their music is always top shelf

When the Rains Come- Proto-Kaw

America-Renaissance

Annie Haslem has the voice of an angel

Message from the Country- The Move

Wind-Circus Maximus

A real gem, truly a fm underground hit when it was released ,the whole album is really good.

Voyager-Alan Parsons

My only issue with this song is that it is too short

Circles- Ten Years After

My favorite song by this awesome band

Though I am far from an aficionado on jazz, I have had good luck in that category. Norah Jones, Weather Report, Miles Davis. I have been told on multiple occasions that I need some John Coltrane in my collection.

Journey of the Sorcerer-Eagles

You have to love how the Eagles decided one day to write this cosmic-fantasy instrumental and throw in a banjo for fun. And then a sci-fi writer ends up making that the theme to a genre-defining work cause of said banjo...and the rest is history.

Repent Walpurgis-Procol Harum

Magnificent composition.

Peel the Paint-Gentle Giant

A great piece of 70's prog, even though the middle is a bit more on the hard rock side

For me, The Ramones are what Punk should sound like

Oh what the hell, it's friday time for Watermelon in Easter Hay-Frank Zappa

Absolutely Beautiful

Dirty Linen-Fairport Convention

I work for a industry-leading grocery company in the San Francisco bay area as a Category Director for the pasta/beans category.

Then came the last days of may- B.O.C.

One of my favorite BOC songs

Jersey Girl-Tom Waits

This one is in my top ten favorite songs ever

Jockey full of bourbon-Tom Waits

High School; I enjoyed science, especially biology and chemistry. I then joined the Army for 4 years to help with tuition.

I did 2 years at DVC(A community college nearby) and then headed off to USC for my MBA

When I think Bookstore in my area these two come immediately to mind

City Lights and

Moe's Bookstore

Zoot Allures-Frank Zappa

Nice little tune from a really underated artist

A peppy little tune from Taj Mahal

I'm going to say, I'm really liking Impus Major's physics teacher's style.

Every week he hands out a really nasty homework assignment. Plus a solution. He does not collect this assignment. Instead, every week he has an easy quiz on what was on the assignment. If you do the assignment, the quiz is a piece of cake.

So he's tracking what you're learning and letting you learn by your own method, whether it's by working through the problems (which Impus Major and I are doing together) or by just reading the solutions on weeks where you're pressed for time.

A really nice model. I approve.

I'll make sure and pass that along as that teacher is one of my friends I've known since High School

Imaginary Voyage-Jean-Luc Ponty

It occurs to me that we need more vandalism for halloween, trick or treat has become an empty threat

The Barbarian-ELP

Prog Rock before gaming always gets me going

Crime of the Century-Supertramp

The Turn of a Friendly Card-Alan Parsons

Birdland, Weather Report