The following pages detail our version of events from the Dungeons and Dragons campaign called 'Into the Night Below', which we are currently playing in a 3rd edition Forgotten Realms setting. The pages include journals from the Dwarven Cleric known as Grassy Knoll, a Cleric of the God Gorm Gulthyn, who is accompanied on his journey by a party of adventurers on his trek into the Underdark. They are searching for 12 Dwarven acolytes of Gorm Gulthyn's church who disappeared while on pilgrimage, a woman called Jilenth who went missing from the nearby village of Milbourne, and to determine the origin of the evil that has swept the shire.

19th August: I am still here, but you may want to check my Castle White Rock pages instead. Sadly it seems Into the Night Below is in suspended animation mode, with no time frame at all on its release. I am usual am behind on writting chapters for that campaign, and so although I have the greatest intentions to do so, the remaining 6 chapters of this tale will be pushed to the back...

26th Feb: I have started on the next chapter, no 131, and will do it as quick as I can. You will be pleased to know that I have a proper laptop once more, a supurb Vista based Sony FZ21M, which even has Blu-Ray. On the other hand, I have been spending a huge amount of time at AVForums.com, where you can see me logged on as Theydon Bois mostly hiding in the Computer, LCD and PVR forums boards.

Oh, and on DnD related news, we are to start again! Sadly not the chronicles of the Dwarven Cleric Grassy Knoll and the Night Below, but Tenpast the Human Druid, visiting the White Castle of something or other. Not exactly an aspiring title to start with, but if I paid more attention, I would remember its name. :p

20th Feb: The next Chapter is done, only some 20+ months later than we actually played it....

Chapter 130 describes our heartfelt joy as we find a certain person that has been missing for a jolly long time when Hordex falls through a rabbit hole. Oh, and we anger another Deity.

Oh well, on to the next!

7th February: No updates for 6 months? Such a lot has happened, job change, new TV :p and fucking around with games etc. Mainly the lack of updates has been due to the fact that my laptop finally gave out, and after getting rid of it (and waking my missus up as I was smashing the hard drive up with a hammer at 1 in the morning) I had no laptop to write things on in the middle of the night.

Now I am writing this on one I borrowed from work - only after I formatted the thing after they give me one with ingrained spyware and a broken internal wireless card, but at least I didnt have to pay for it.

I am in the process of finishing Chapter 130 - its done, just needs a few proof readings and edits, and will be updated in the next few days or so. As for the game itself? It loks like we are 'on a break' and have been for the last year. No new chapters have been played in over a year now, and it looks like a combination of monotomy and impossibility of raiding yet another city with even deadlier opponents than the last one has taken its toll....

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The Web Site

Just a quick introduction to the site itself. On your left, you will see the standard navigation bar, and curiously enough, that's the place where you can navigate the whole site to your hearts content. Scrolling down are explanations for the links that you will find there. The links at the bottom of the page are there to shortcut to sections that are buried within other pages, or to the other sites I have hosted. There you go, the whole thing is nearly as simple as the party this is based upon.

Progress

These pages detail our journals, and contain maps given out during the campaign. We are currently in chapter 2 of the Night Below campaign, entitled "Perils of the Underdark". Each session we play is written up as a chapter in our campaign, and a synopsis is contained here with links to the journal entry itself. - These pages are high spoiler content, that is assuming you can relate what you are doing in your campaign to our motley crew's antics.

The dates and times that appear in brackets in some of the earlier chapters relate to original dates that they where written, whereas times mentioned are in game times - just to make things complicated. There are no chapters prior to Chapter 15 (an educated guess on how many sessions I reckoned had passed) as I did not start writing them until later into the campaign, a good 6 months or so after we started. The pages under this section are detailed as follows:

Progress: A continuing synopsis of the story to date. A few pages of information that cover the many adventures that we have had over each of the chapters that we have explored so far.

The Evils of Harranshire / Perils of the Underdark / The Sunless Sea: Each of these are links explaining in great detail the things that we have done in each of the areas. Each of these sub-chapters is divided into 8 to 10 area's, and each area has one or more chapters associated with it.

Characters

The Players and Characters that make up this motley crew. Each person will hopefully add there own biography, or short background here, and possibly favourite chapter - whether good or bad. The pages show stat block information showing current levels, stats, skills, Magic Items, and each character has an image created by Hero Generator.

Rules

Rules related to our campaign. This page details rules from our conversion from 2nd to 3rd edition, any house rules we use, and rules for characters that join our campaign, either due to death or additional people.

Our treasure that we have accumulated and is yet to be divided amongst the party, all lovingly stashed in the best party magical item a party could wish for, even better than a Bag of Holding (or a duvet), as it has cutlery drawers and a bed. Its a tad out of date, and when I get round to updating the chapters, I will sort out - honest.

A page containing all the D and D links you need for message boards, other people's campaign's, FAQ's and anything else I can think of. Again, not updated as much as I would like for purely time reasons unfortunatly.

And lastly we have the 'Quote of the Chapter'. This handy little feature helps us to remember which party member did something out of the ordinary, made an exceptionally fine comment, or simply earned a 'Mongo Mungy' (a derogatory term used for a fine display of stupidity, or incredulous behavior - the word originates from a campaign from long ago.) As you can see, most of the quotes shown are fine examples of our role playing skills, finely tuned with our detailed knowledge of the game, and mixed up with our own special brand of what we find humorous. Clicking this quote will also take you to the latest batch of chapters written.

Our campaign originally started in mid 1999 as a 2nd edition campaign, but when the new 3rd edition rules came out, we changed over to them, converting our characters (who where approximately 6th level at the time) to the new rules. Chapter 39 is our first test of the new rules, and a grand time is had by all as we struggle with Attacks of Opportunity rules :p. The Group is made up of 7 long time friends, DM 'd by David Simpson, and we have played D and D in its various guises from 1st to 3rd edition for an average of 15 years each.

Each session we play is recorded as a Chapter, and the current Chapter is recorded down to the bottom left of your screen, along with the most recently completed journal entry. The rest of which will be updated as soon as I have time to do so. We play approximately twice a month, for 4 to 5 hrs a session, bar the following longer than normal sessions that can be found here.

Disclaimer: All content is copyright to me, with Design by me and my mate Greg. Images have been borrowed from the Into the Night Below campaign, Wizards of the Coast, Dungeon Siege and from random places from the net which I will credit where I can.