Bleak Generation

Another two-session compilation, because the first was a levelling up and downtime session, and I made almost no effort to prepare Sigil after so long. Downtime mostly requires making NPCs. Make the names in advance. I used u/minotaur36191’s excellent rules for turning PCs into questgivers to expedite Ragados’ gaining of the required reagents.   I asked the party to make backup characters in event of their deaths, planning to use them as the adventuring party Jerryx hires. Only Ragados obliged, but it’s one fewer name. A Planar Adventuring Party for you to Steal Galina, F Gnome Cleric, NG, from Tradegate in the Outlands. The oldest party member, and the leader. She’s spent a lot of time defending settlements from fiendish Blood War incursions, and seen enough death to last a lifetime. Calm, honest, and philosophical. Indep. Kathne, F Gnome Barbarian, CN. From the Prime (Toril). She’s beautiful but short-tempered and gullible (WIS is her dump stat). Very, very fond of ha...

The drow had been clear, even as his vampiric form disintegrated. Kill Erehe. He’s in Menzoberranzan.   Don’t let him remember, and don’t let these guys get him first. Any questions, well, you’re free to ask the dust. And with that, our adventurers had fully looted Tcian Sumere. With considerable relief, the party returned to Ranais. Ragados administered a karate chop of Catnap to his colleagues, and then it was time for a blissfully undead-free march home. Back in Sigil, eating again at the Hellfire Bowl, the planewalkers began to worry about their find. The Demonomicon was an item that could change the balance of the multiverse. It could end the Blood War, M’narr mused, or even the great war of Law versus Evil. What if someone found out they had it? Someone powerful? The book needed to be hidden. As the party rested in their apartment, Jerryx appeared blushing at the door. The poor bariaur never learned the password for stopping M’narr’s magic mouth alarm, which blared out...