Phil Crompton
United Kingdom
St Helens
Merseyside
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This is my first session report so please forgive the vagueness or lack of detail that other quality reports possess.
My gaming group has recently acquired Descent: Journeys in the Dark and after a couple of adventures decided to go for RTL mainly due to the campaign. As we are all old 1980's D&Ders we wanted a 'storyline' to fit our adventuring.
I chose to Overlord the campaign and after 2 evenings after work of frantic reading we were set to go on a saturday night in my conservatory fuelled with sweets, crisps, pizza and the odd beer or two 
Avatar; The Titan Plot; Nightfall
Andira; Barry, Battlemage Jaes; Gareth, Steelhorns; Matt, Mordrog; Ged.
At the start of game week 1 I put Sir Alric Farrow into play moving him towards Greyhaven. The party, after tooling up in Tamilir, decided to go adventuring and headed down the Thelsvan Highway only to be ambushed as they slept outdoors ( Stormy Stream). Unfortunately for them the encounter was the Brothers, two rather nasty ogres 
This was probably the worst first-encounter the party could wish for (it was a green/yellow/red one) and after being soundly thrashed decided that flight was probably the best option.
Now heavily blooded they limped back to Tamilir to heal - sadly realising they had only 25gp's left in the kitty.
Sir Alric moved into Greyhaven flexing his muscles whilst the party headed back down the Thelsvan Highway and encountered a wandering potion salesman who cursed them for wasting his time (25gp's gets you not a lot !). Into level 1 of the dungeon they inched, gaining their first conquest token, and looked around at The Garden of Grazius. The Overlord killed Jaes but crucially forgot to place Grazius in the dungeon (doh  ) but still followed up by sending Mordrog back to Tamilir. The party finally cleared the level and began to cheer up a bit and believe in themselves. So bouyed were they that they grasped the door to take them to level 2 and the Overlord played a nice exploding door trap 
Level 2 was The Arena and although it was fairly a breeze for the party, Steelhorns sucuumbed to his wounds and passed the Overlord a few more conquest tokens. Bone piles were rummaged through like pikeys at a car-boot sale and treasures were lifted aloft with joy !
After 6 hours gaming we paused at level 3 for our next game.
Current score; Party 11 Overlord 17
I made a few mistakes but after reading and re-reading I'm ready for the next session and await those pesky adventurers with a few tricks up my sleeve 
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joel cuthbert
United States
fort collins
Colorado
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it is up to you because you are the author of the session reports, but i would suggest reading some of the other session reports here and try to tailor them similarly. you can make your own twist of course, but things like skills equipment are pretty nice to know. also it definitely helps to see who purchased what and so on. good luck with your advanced campaign.
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