D&D Adventurers League--
Last month, Minmaxer ran an adventure for D&D AL that was an homage to the Carmen Sandiego games. (Actual, 3rd-party publisher adventure!) The party is tasked with tracking a master thief called Camille Santiago, and there are many punny names throughout the adventure (as there were for Sandiego's crew in the old games) before we capture her. Two weeks later, Minmaxer ran "Part 2," a follow-up adventure where Camille Santiago escapes from prison and the party has to go catch her again.
This week, Minmaxer began a longer campaign, just as DM Spencer did last summer with the Spelljammer campaign Light of Xaryxis. We began Descent into Avernus with effectively two shorter adventures, back to back. Getting a lot of our Level 1 characters up to Level 3 by the end of the night. But during the second half of our run, the party needs to get some information from a notorious thief in Baldur's Gate, a thief who already has at least two aliases by the time the party met her, and described names as being like hats, and preferring to have a lot of them.
We end up having to defend this thief against a crew of thugs that turned up, angry cuz their boss had been bested in dice games by the thief. The thief joins in the fight, lands a blow on the thug captain, and Minmaxer describes her as flourishing a bit and reaching up to tip her hat to him, but remembering she isn't wearing a hat. I quipped about, "I'm having flashbacks to Camille Santiago." I said it out of character, but Minmaxer looked at me and says, in character as the thief, "Camille Santiago... that's a good name, I'm gonna use that."
I stopped, looked at him and said, "Wait... is she a half-elf?" He confirmed it, then pointed to the mini he was using for the thief. It was the same mini as the one he'd specifically 3D printed and painted for Camille. I hadn't thought too much of it, since he frequently will use other minis as placeholders. When I started laughing, he beckoned me to peek behind his DM screen and pointed to his notes for the thief. There it was-- "Turina/Camille" -- the thief's current alias and her future alias. I'm laughing my ass off as Minmaxer says, "This is part of the origin story. I was gonna reveal that at the end of the adventure, but you saw through it."
Even when Minmaxer is doing an "official" adventure, he'll find ways to make it more unique and special for his recurring players.
Last month, Minmaxer ran an adventure for D&D AL that was an homage to the Carmen Sandiego games. (Actual, 3rd-party publisher adventure!) The party is tasked with tracking a master thief called Camille Santiago, and there are many punny names throughout the adventure (as there were for Sandiego's crew in the old games) before we capture her. Two weeks later, Minmaxer ran "Part 2," a follow-up adventure where Camille Santiago escapes from prison and the party has to go catch her again.
This week, Minmaxer began a longer campaign, just as DM Spencer did last summer with the Spelljammer campaign Light of Xaryxis. We began Descent into Avernus with effectively two shorter adventures, back to back. Getting a lot of our Level 1 characters up to Level 3 by the end of the night. But during the second half of our run, the party needs to get some information from a notorious thief in Baldur's Gate, a thief who already has at least two aliases by the time the party met her, and described names as being like hats, and preferring to have a lot of them.
We end up having to defend this thief against a crew of thugs that turned up, angry cuz their boss had been bested in dice games by the thief. The thief joins in the fight, lands a blow on the thug captain, and Minmaxer describes her as flourishing a bit and reaching up to tip her hat to him, but remembering she isn't wearing a hat. I quipped about, "I'm having flashbacks to Camille Santiago." I said it out of character, but Minmaxer looked at me and says, in character as the thief, "Camille Santiago... that's a good name, I'm gonna use that."
I stopped, looked at him and said, "Wait... is she a half-elf?" He confirmed it, then pointed to the mini he was using for the thief. It was the same mini as the one he'd specifically 3D printed and painted for Camille. I hadn't thought too much of it, since he frequently will use other minis as placeholders. When I started laughing, he beckoned me to peek behind his DM screen and pointed to his notes for the thief. There it was-- "Turina/Camille" -- the thief's current alias and her future alias. I'm laughing my ass off as Minmaxer says, "This is part of the origin story. I was gonna reveal that at the end of the adventure, but you saw through it."
Even when Minmaxer is doing an "official" adventure, he'll find ways to make it more unique and special for his recurring players.
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