The Gathering

WARNING – Spoilers of Death’s Reach lie below. Since the objective of the blog is to document this adventure and the trilogy, there is no way to avoid those

When I proposed DMing Death’s Reach to my group, I gave them complete liberty to decide their character’s background. I tried a lot to say yes and in the end it wasn’t that difficult.

This lead to the group being composed of two sovereigns, the lover of a Fey Queen, an exiled Deva who lived for 700 years alone in a desert, a wandering Drow whose life was always marked by strife and finally a Genasi who is a Professor at the White Lotus Academy and seeks to unravel the mysteries of the Far Realm.

Very cool backgrounds, but they were not a group. Thus, I couldn’t use the first encounter of Death’s Reach as written, and had to come up with a way of uniting the gang. Let’s see how I chose to do so: