Introduction to the Edgy BLT

After offhandedly mentioning to my friends I was in a Dungeons and Dragons group, they mentioned they had an interest in it, but not sure how to get into it. I decided to volunteer to to be their DM and then put effort into researching premade campaigns and decided to start with the starter set: The Mines of Phandelver.

So far we've had about five sessions, and the party is approaching level 5 and the climax of the story. I have ideas for my own homebrew campaign, but I still need to plan it out.

As for the characters, we have the B of the Edgy BLT, Brose. As in Rose, but with a 'B' or so I was told. Brose is a halfling bard and she is very good at her job. That job being screaming. Her instrument of choice is a magic megaphone instead of any classical instrument and she prefers using sound-based spells such as Dissonant Whispers, Tasha's Hideous Laughter, and Shatter.

Brose was fascinated with adventurers as a child and wanted to travel, so she put her mind to it and became..... a sailor. During one of her voyages, she found a pair of six-sided with skulls instead of sixes. She rolled the dice, and both landed on the skulls. Less than an hour later, pirates attacked. Fearing for her life, she ran for a rowboat, and not realizing it was the only one, fled by herself and watched as her crew was slaughtered. She eventually made her way to Neverwinter where she was recruited by Gundrun Rockseeker.

The L stands for Laserie and they are a wood elf sorceror. Laserie went for the wild magic origin instead of the dragon origin and we keep forgetting the wild magic surges, but we're starting to get better at them. Laserie's parents were killed when she was young and she was adopted into the priesthood of the Tharizdun, the most evil elder god that wants to destroy all planes of existence for fun. Despite her dark lord, which she is keeping a secret, she is surprisingly levelheaded except when it comes to her interest in necromancy.

Finally we have Torment, a tiefling paladin. Torment and Laserie share similar backstories of dead parents and adopted priesthoods, but Torment follows the virtuous path of Trithereon. Because of his demonic appearance, he was ostracized from most of his peers and his upbringing was mostly torment. The most non-violent way to get ride of the tiefling was to send him on a "holy quest" to prove himself.

Rise of the Dragonlords P1

Rise of the Dragonlords was a campaign written and DM'd by a friend of a friend and was honestly my first real DnD campaign since... boy scouts in 3rd grade? We didnt have access to the Player's Handbook, so we mostly just winged and it and it was fun.

 I played a dwarven cleric named Krumrum Aute and I was joined with Daeris, an elven rogue, and Vastraak Bearwrestler, an orc warrior. The setting was basically ancient dragons had been awakened and a cult in red cloaks were responsible. Krumrum “knew” a lot about dragons and the party decided to go to his home to get his notes on dragons. Krumrum had woken up one day, teleported miles away from the dwarven capital, Brackenwald, and had no idea about the rest of the Aute House’s fate.

On the way to Brackenwald, the party came across a town overrun by skeletons and decided to take down the necromancer behind it. After defeating John the necromancer (who had really bad rolls for a boss) the party discovered a cave and decided to travel through it as a shortcut to Brackenwald. In the tunnel, Krumrum comes across a mind flayer and strikes a deal. In return of allowing the creature to live, it would teach the dwarf the secrets of necromancy. Krumrum received a grimoire that would teach him the dark art as he completed certain tasks for it. The first, collect the head of a necromancer, the blood of a saint, and to defile a holy gravesite.

The party stopped in a city to rest and Krumrum found his first target for unlocking the book—the leader of a holy order of paladins. Krumrum attempted to convince the leader to give a vial of blood, and it worked, but not before Krumrum was forcibly exorcised of all ill intent and his physical connection to the book.