Session Date: August 5th, 2021
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as the DM
Justin Wills-Ward as Clinker the Kenku Rouge (Thief)
Bryan Ford as Fleet Snow the Water Genasi Rouge (Swashbuckler)
Bekah Ford as Caspian the Tiefling Bard (College of Swords)
Edward Sandberg as Sandra the Human Paladin (Oath of the Open Sea)/Sorcerer (Storm Sorcery)
Justin Reimer as Kendroth the Half-Orc Fighter (Battle Master)
Summery: The Crew drives off from Belonde, towards the island that Gavin is rumored to be. On there day's travel, they come across a Xantani war galleon, rip apart by magic. They find a survivor, Jeffini (Elven for Jeffery) who explains how the war against the Istarri is expanding into the open seas. He also helps the crew identify the island on the map as 'The Golden Needle', a human/dwarf settlement under Elven governance, much to the former's disgust. The elf garrison all reside in a large, needle like, flying ship that hovers ominously over the city, and Jeffini says that this Gavin is the leader of a partizan movement to remove them with the help of Calypso, the Bitch Queen. They arrive and hide Jeffini and are escorted to Gavin, a flamboyant Howl like man who treats Sandra affectionally as if they had never parted. The party splits up as the human partizans already are causing trouble for our crew...

Session 43 - The Crew Reach The Golden Needle

Session Date: June 16th, 2022
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as the DM
Edward Sandberg as Anna Akhmatova the Centaur Cleric (Twilight Domain)
Justin Wills-Ward as Isolden Slipwing the Owlin Ranger (Horizon Walker)
Bryan Ford as Croakie the Grung Fighter (Eldritch Knight)
Bekah Ford as Myra the Tiefling Rouge (Arcane Trickster)
Summary: The great tower of Scarlet Moon Hall reveals many envoys to evil and secrets, a gapping maw to the Elemental Plane of Fire at its bace. The Players all have stand-out fighting moments as they plan how to best take on the leader of the false druidic cult, with Myra especially being seduced and manipulated by the voice of her former lover, a changed and calculating fire genasi named Lady Tia. At the climax the portal is opened and activated, hungry for all consuming fuel, including Myra. Croakie also perishes after falling out of the tower, satisfied to of saved his friends before. Anna risks and loses everything to try and save those she cans, blacking out in a collapsing tower around her...

Session Fourteen - The Stars Burning Bright

Session Date: September 29th, 2022
Giancarlo D'Alessandro, Justin Wills-Ward, Bryan Ford
Saltmarsh, ravages by undeath by the necro elf, Salizar, lays in decay and ruin. But quickly, coastal refugees arrive to try and carve out a life in the husk of a town abandoned by heroes and citizens. With a balance if abundances and scarcities, Bryan and Justin are given choices to make the town survive, while also introducing characters and world building. Here are some interesting things that have remained by the end of the session, with winter coming to an end by the arrival of the astral elves' ship, The Golden Needle: 
- A purple, tentacled shapeshifter called "Gloom" has become the protector of some Infernal looking puzzle box, causing it to finally open and release some distress signal into the astral sea...
- A forge from ancient ruins and a power source of a strange asteroid have been restored and twice repaired, causing electricity, but also the building capability for fine spelljammers. 
- The necrotic sludge still pollutes the water, but a space dolphin  sculpture filters and purifies the water and shoots it back out into the river as a fountain. 
- Discoveries also include anti gravity pallet jacks and the domestication of local wolves, which have also become a problem in the outskirts, troubling the communities child foragers
- A large Floridian Firbolg community came, and established a greenhouse system that made huge carrots. they were in a project of making "super weed" before winter ended...
- Through a halfling's wild magic, a large black hole/portal (?) appeared in the ground, which the community recreationally use as a trash hole with little question of where it goes...
- Every May 1st, it is a nudist holiday. (it only happened once though so it's not much of a tradition yet...)
- They invested in making an anti-boner potion for people cursed with "forever boners" after the oldest man in town (Glenn Hardman) was afflicted with this terrible dark omen.
- a human girl has had prophetic dreams of alien invasion and abduction. The daughter of a potion seller and a blacksmith, she took both these skills to be a hero, though she left town when the visions became too much. 
- There is a scarcity of rabbit in the outskirts of town, they all ran down into the hole the meteor left.
- Glenn tried to burn down the green house but the whole town got high and now Glenn is cool with it...
- They project to build a dyke to prevent more sludge flooding is only 90% complete...

Quiet Year 1 - Rebuilding Saltmarsh

Session Date: December 29th, 2022
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as the DM
Justin Wills-Ward as Dee the Halfling Sorcerer (Wild Magic)
Bryan Ford as Maverick the Hadozee the Warlock/Rogue (Great Old One/Swashbuckler)
Edward Sandberg as Titan/Titania O'Velvet the Stardusted-Themed Plasmoid Rouge/Bard (Soul Knife)
Summary: A new captive in their ship's brig, the party has a meeting over a fraternal coconut curry and discusses what to do next. Maverick seeks a star cartographer named Adheir, a planet on a outer rim colony of the large astral elven empire, called the Chao Empire. Their newest captive, an acolyte to a warrior order of dragon-riding monster hunters. After a variety of interrogation techniques and humors, they find out she is of a space faring race called a giff and her name is Nakita. She warns them all of their curses and pacts and agrees not to attack them for her life. She gives Maverick a signal when she can return to either kill a monster, or when one of the party become a monster. Now in the Elven Forge World Prospero, the party learns they must get a sponsor to the next commercial layer of the city, and get involved in getting local influence through a fighting ring in a long house arena called the Silver Bell. *Oh Yeha, Elf Culture is kinda southern drwal barberism* The place bets on themselves and, lets just say make a variety of impressions among the masses. As their #7//1:19 multibet reveals their challenge, a looming, frightening vampire.
***Summary by Ward: "Monkey boy pretending to be dumb. Clown boy poisoned baby girl  This city is full of egotists, and now we're fighting some hot goth daddy."
P.S. Dragon Lady set free.

SpellJammer Thursday 09: Ending 2022 Right/Arriving In Prospero

Session Date: June 11th, 2023
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as the DM
Brandt as Mondo Commodious the Giff Cleric (Tempest Domain)
Lucas as Gust the Air Genasi Bard (College of Lore)
Jarred  as Bryan Smith the Normal Human Paladin (Oath of Conquest)
Jacob as S.A.M. the Autognome Artificer (Artillerist)
Shane as Ahzdram the Custom Lineage Construct Druid (Circle of 'Starfire' /wildfire/)
Summary: The party cringes at the task prevented in front of them. Becky Smeckleson, Elvish senator's daughter, has used her influence to protest the status quo of intergalactic xenophobia phobic harvesting of planets for their home world's core star. And she needs help escaping from being government kidnapped and back to her mom up in the nearby Cuckies' Rouge Trading Space Post. A fog cloud and a magic bluff later end up in smashing a window, and an attack on three marine guards. Solestia the Inquisitor has vanished, and the party with lv.2 monk Becky run out into the music festival to her rebellion connections in the neighboring tent city. Gust is due to play in 12 hours opening of 'Space Yeh', who is a musician who will start the planet exploding ritual!

SpellJammer Sunday 7: Escape From Your Local Elvish Black Site Under A Music Festival

Session Date: August 17th, 2023
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as the DM
Justin Wills-Ward as Dee the Stout Halfling Sorcerer (Wild Magic)
Bryan Ford as Maverick the Hadozee the Warlock(Great Old One)
Justin Reiner as Aerendyl the High Elf Fighter (Champion)
Bri Melton as Mango the Deep Gnome Rogue/Artificer (Inquisitor/Battle Smith)
Brandie Bunny as Holly Harmony the Fairy Druid (Circle of Dreams)
Edward Sandberg as Princess Xedalli/Titania O'Velvet the Astral Elf Bard/Rouge (College of Whispers/Soul Knife)
Summary: The battle with Stinky George Joe continues, the party's throwing themselves at and around the growing problem of a titan of a space marine corrupted thrashing about at anyone who dared near. Finally defeated, the party collects and reunites the other, world bound Dee. This uncorrupted Dee claims that our player Dee was in fact a Space Clown that stole his identity, and not the other way around of a handling turned clown. Gee, the young girl found reunites with their father, the "Daddy Dee", joyfully. A long rest as the party determines the risk and the conspiracies surrounding them...

SpellJammer Thursday 36: The Kinky Care Bear Stare

Session Date: August 31st, 2023
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as the DM
Justin Wills-Ward as Dee the Stout Halfling Sorcerer (Wild Magic)
Bryan Ford as Maverick the Hadozee the Warlock(Great Old One)
Justin Reiner as Aerendyl the High Elf Fighter (Champion)
Bri Melton as Mango the Deep Gnome Rogue/Artificer (Inquisitor/Battle Smith)
Brandie Bunny as Holly Harmony the Fairy Druid (Circle of Dreams)
Edward Sandberg as Princess Xedalli/Titania O'Velvet the Astral Elf Bard/Rouge (College of Whispers/Soul Knife)
Summary: Deep into the twisted tomb of the Big Grin; the soul hole of the Smiling One. They come across many intimidating doors, a lesser chamber full of shadows or two, an Only Fans Succubus charmed to the Big Grin, and some other BS. They crash into a Ring leader Bodok, or Boobaduck, or Baba'Duke or whatever. Dungeon Session 1!

SpellJammer Thursday 38: Nice to Baba'Duke You

Session Date: October 5th, 2023
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as the DM
Justin Wills-Ward as Dee the Stout Halfling Sorcerer (Wild Magic)
Bryan Ford as Maverick the Hadozee Warlock(Great Old One)
Justin Reiner as Aerendyl the High Elf Fighter (Champion)
Bri Melton as Mango the Deep Gnome Rogue/Artificer (Inquisitor/Battle Smith)
Brandie Bunny as Holly Harmony the Fairy Druid (Circle of Dreams)
Edward Sandberg as Princess Xedalli, (formerly Titania O'Velvet) the 'now' Astral Elf Bard/Rouge (College of Whispers/Soul Knife)
Summary: The tomb of the Smiling One crumbles as the Putrid Parades ships crashes to the surface of High Harvest's North pole under the bombardment of the Chao Elf Empire. That's a lot of proper noun factions listed all converging on a point. Finally dragging themself up wreckage and laughing gas, they come across some friends, and some enemies as some elf empire scouts seem to try to secure Xedalli. Shots are fired, some party members teleport back to Dee's dreamscape home, and then back into the arrival of the other heir to the empire, Prince Zeleth. He appears to his sister cautiously, and competitively, but glad to see her safe, and more importantly, returned to her position at the head of her genocide  army... But one last boss battle with the Great unclean Ringmaster himself...

SpellJammer Thursday 42: Big Elf Brother Finally Found Y'All

Session Date: February 22nd, 2024
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as the DM
Justin Wills-Ward as Red Sofie the Tabaxi Fighter (Battle Master)
Becca Ford as Tao the Teifling Bard (College of Creation)
Bryan Ford as Oberon Griffonfang the Owlin Barbarian (Path of the Beast)
Bri Melton as Magpie Limbsly the Goblin Druid (Circle of Spores)
Summery: After interrogating and releasing Leo, a human man who worked for the witch Charleston, they figure he is a were tiger and let him go and begin to cut a blood synth through more orcs defending their leader's leader. A Storm Giant's disembodied head lays at the end, in a frozen pool of water, with the help of a tranced dryad Charleston. He offers honeyed words of alliances and deals, but the party refuses, and after discovering treachery from Leo, and recovering the body of their sweet mouse bartender friend, they retreat back to Brick's to grow and save and ready their next journey...

Wisteria Seven - These Bricks Built On Blood

Session Date: February 22nd, 2024
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as the DM
Justin Wills-Ward as Red Sofie the Tabaxi Fighter (Battle Master)
Becca Ford as Tao the Teifling Bard (College of Creation)
Bryan Ford as Oberon Griffonfang the Owlin Barbarian (Path of the Beast)
Bri Melton as Magpie Limbsly the Goblin Druid (Circle of Spores)
Summery: Back to the castle to earn and spend some money.

Wisteria Eight - Dark Shadows Arise

SpellJammer Sunday 17: Don't Wake Daddy or Your Horrid Clone Brothers

Session Date: February 22nd, 2024
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as the DM
Justin Wills-Ward as Red Sofie the Tabaxi Fighter (Battle Master)
Becca Ford as Tao the Teifling Bard (College of Creation)
Bryan Ford as Maverick the Hadozee 
Bri Melton as Magpie Limbsly the Goblin Druid (Circle of Spores)
Summery: The skin silk store was a trap, who would have guessed? Oberon died, the party drag his remains out, Maverick appears, next day we can revive the Builder...

Wisteria Nine - Skin Flayers and Feather Pluckers

Session Date: April 18th, 2024
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as the DM
Justin Wills-Ward as Red Sofie the Tabaxi Fighter (Battle Master)
Becca Ford as Tao the Teifling Bard (College of Creation)
Bryan Ford as Maverick the Hadozee Warlock (Pact of the Bottle - Fire)
Bri Melton as Magpie Limbsly the Goblin Druid (Circle of Spores)
Edward Sandberg as Theodore Hobcopper the Aasimar Wizard ( School of Chronurgy)
Summery: Brick is set in the pot to cook. we meet Hob-Cob, he has many sons of many ages. Key ones now are Mathias (30), lead son, Mika (14), loves his mommy and expert on dinosaurs, and Ezra (24), has soul patch and is radicalized. Goes and visits Ezra in jail who is vert pro giant.

Wisteria Ten - Reservation for Four

Session Date: April 24th, 2024
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as the DM
Justin Wills-Ward as Red Sofie the Tabaxi Fighter (Battle Master)
Becca Ford as Tao the Teifling Bard (College of Creation)
Bryan Ford as Maverick the Hadozee Warlock (Pact of the Bottle - Fire)
Bri Melton as Magpie Limbsly the Goblin Druid (Circle of Spores)
Edward Sandberg as Theodore Hobcopper the Aasimar Wizard ( School of Chronurgy)
Summery: Brick is back and immediately goes back to work. The party meets his spider wizard who tells of a mysterious magical device left by strange aliens on top of the castle's tower. With some spearman to aid them, the party plan to root out the last of the Trekless steps' dungeon in the silk smiths burnt out store.

Wisteria Eleven - Brick by Brick

Session Date: May 2nd, 2024
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as the DM
Justin Wills-Ward as Red Sofie the Tabaxi Fighter (Battle Master)
Becca Ford as Tao the Teifling Bard (College of Creation)
Bryan Ford as Maverick the Hadozee Warlock (Pact of the Bottle - Fire)
Bri Melton as Magpie Limbsly the Goblin Druid (Circle of Spores)
Edward Sandberg as Theodore Hobcopper the Aasimar Wizard ( School of Chronurgy)
Summery: Gathering one's forces, the party dive deep in the bloody black magic basement of the silk dealers, the Trekless Steps. Some exploring finds that the souls taken in their murders are fueling something, and a battle erupts when they find the grizzly assembly of a giant's leg. The dust settles are some warriors and their summoned demons are dispatched...

Wisteria Twelve - Darkest Dungeon

Session Date: May 9th, 2024
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as the DM
Justin Wills-Ward as Red Sofie the Tabaxi Fighter (Battle Master)
Becca Ford as Tao the Teifling Bard (College of Creation)
Bryan Ford as Maverick the Hadozee Warlock (Pact of the Bottle - Fire)
Bri Melton as Magpie Limbsly the Goblin Druid (Circle of Spores)
Edward Sandberg as Theodore Hobcopper the Aasimar Wizard ( School of Chronurgy)
Summery: Still in the chaos of the fight against the blood letters, the battle tries to focus on the final sorcerer of the cult until they eventual retreat as their goblin reinforcements find the melees guys in the shadows of the rooms below. They back up, and short rest and make their way in again. The transmutation giant's leg is gone along with the cultists, the chopped up bodies of many town folks replaced by demons lay around, and a bottom half of a woman preserved in some surgical experimental horror (NOT A SEX THING, OMG ;///;). The little vamp thrall Bernardo is interrogated, and in one of the last rooms, the other half of the woman is found...attached to a living dragon chimera. She greats them kindly as Fridgia. The party finish this dungeon with more questions than answers, and realizing the ancient war of the giants and dragons is becoming a lot more relevant now more then ever...

Wisteria Thirteen - Contracts and Experiments of the Trekless Steps

Session Date: May 16th, 2024
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as the DM
Justin Wills-Ward as Red Sofie the Tabaxi Fighter (Battle Master)
Becca Ford as Tao the Teifling Bard (College of Creation)
Bryan Ford as Maverick the Hadozee Warlock (Pact of the Bottle - Fire)
Bri Melton as Magpie Limbsly the Goblin Druid (Circle of Spores)
Edward Sandberg as Theodore Hobcopper the Aasimar Wizard ( School of Chronurgy)
Summery: The party talk to the soft spoken chimera, Fridgia, who is trapped in her creation space and cell. With the Trekless Path spreading word of the heroes, a storm giant junior assassin ambushes them. With Tobin guards, a pair of ghost powered animated armors, and vampire boy on their side, and a heroic kill steal from Brick the Builder. After some forgetting some names from the last couple months of sessions, a second gathering of armies come together to take on the Giant growing under Charleston's as we level up to level 6!

Wisteria Fourteen - Collecting Many Monsters

Session Date: June 6th, 2024
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as the DM
Justin Wills-Ward as Red Sofie the Leonin Fighter (Battle Master)
Bryan Ford as Maverick the Hadozee Warlock (Pact of the Bottle - Fire)
Bri Melton as Magpie Limbsly the Goblin Druid (Circle of Spores)
Edward Sandberg as Theodore Hobcopper the Aasimar Wizard ( School of Chronurgy)
Summery: Brick's Compound prepares to assault the dryaid's farm to confront the giant being revitalized via help from the Treckless Steps' flesh-crafting. Men are recruited, and a new hero made, Eddy then teenage alchemist who quit his job and got a cyber truck in reaction to Maverick giving him a shit ton of gold. The battle begins on a map of spearman engaging each other as maverick attacks siege towers and trebuchets being built. The Trekless Step Sorcerer engages in the air with him...

Wisteria Fifteen - The Battle of Charlie'Stone Part 1

Session Date: May 1st, 2020
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as The Strangers
Savannah Kerr as The Thieves
Lee Matthis as The Mages

Beak, Feather, & Bone is a collaborative world-building tool as well as a competitive map-labeling RPG. Starting with an unlabeled city map, players are assigned community roles before taking turns claiming and describing locations.

This was a Kickstarter earlier this year that I supported, and I really love it! After dinner in our quarantine, I printed it out and we played a short round. Easy to teach, and great world building for tabletop players and game masters. 

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Beak, Feather & Bone - A Map Building Adventure

Session Date: September 3rd, 2020
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as the DM
Lee Matthis as Elrohir the High Elf Wizard (School of Evocation)
Justin Wills-Ward as Clinker the Kenku Rouge (Thief)
Summery: An afternoon before the election ball, Clinker and Elrohir investigate the flagship of Saltmarsh Council Member and shipping magnet, Primewater (which I think I turned into Primwater, oops) They get onto the ship with little issue, but run into fellow elf, Chevron. But he is not the necromancer they defeated before! They kidnap him and convince him to be an asset for them, and to investigate the ship while they are at the ball...

Session 14 - The Set Turn Into Fish Police

Session Date: September 22nd, 2020
Adrian Santiago as the Keeper
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as Barabbas "Barry" Brown (The Spooky)
Christian as Kass (The Divine)
Michael Heiskell as Rich Stefield (The Crooked) 
John Belle Coffman as Astrid Minerva (The Professional)
Summery: Based around the setting of the 2019 game, CONTROL, members of a clandestine U.S. government agency known as the Federal Bureau of Control (FBC), which is responsible for the investigation of "paranatural" phenomena which defy the known laws of reality. Our new team of oddballs go to investigate a Gameboy possessing a local boy, who teleports them into a video game world where they have to fight undead monsters.

Monster of the Week - Sipping Tea in Lavender Town

Session Date: November 12th, 2020
Giancarlo D'Alessandro as the DM
Lee Matthis as Elrohir the High Elf Wizard (School of Evocation)
Justin Wills-Ward as Clinker the Kenku Rouge (Thief)
Edward Sandberg as Sandra the Human Paladin (Oathbreaker)
Summery: The Chase begins as they pursue the quartermaster of Primwater's ship through the post election crowd. Reaching the ship, it is spookily empty, so they are going to blow it up! After an ambush of a monster left behind, they do so, but somehow were teleported into the middle of the ocean! They are shipwrecked in the open sea!

Session 18 - The Set Chase Down the Love Boat

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