After participating in close to 112 gaming sessions so far using the 1st edition ruleset of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, I have decided it was time to compose a journal of sorts to document these sessions. Quite a number of events in this game where tales of heroic deeds, tragic deaths, otherworldly transformations and magical transportations have transpired. The goal of this journal is to document much of this, mostly going forward in game time but perhaps to reminisce on adventures past on occasion.

All characters have been generated using the rules defined in the AD&D Player's Handbook. Ability scores were generated using one of the methods prescribed in the AD&D First Edition Dungeon Master's Guide on page 11, Method I and Method III being the most popular choice. Aging rules were strictly followed, calculating the age of character at creation and applying any modifiers to the ability scores. As the game progressed, these numbers could be changed as by the time of this writing, over 2 years of time has passed. Any surviving characters birthdays will pass and recorded, potentially applying aging modifiers to their ability scores.

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The beginning of our campaign was on August 17th, 2022. This is the first of a series of stories, anecdotes and notes about our band of adventurers based out of a region known as the Hinterlands. The first characters I rolled up as part of my “character stable” were Ithimyr Sarfanis, a half-elf Ranger / Cleric multiclass character, Smedley “Jek” Brinlock, a halfling Thief and Maervahr, a human Magic-User and one of two to ever successfully obtain psionic ability. Of these characters, only Maervahr has survived.

The in game year is 494 during the second month of the year, known as Blade Moon. On the 5th day of a 28 day month, the adventure began one day before the Festival of the Goddess Riswa.

Our adventuring party formed in a small town known as Gren, a community largely centered around a couple of taverns and a Temple to Riswa. The exploration of the nearby abandoned Chapterhouse. Our initial group included three paladins, Erebus, Talon and Sander, along with Vella Sloan, a human cleric of Rook and Ithimyr, a half-elf Cleric and Ranger in service to the goddess Riswa.