My Group of juniors who are now back from their encounter with Praxillaus and (once his Wyrm was defeated) Persephone, had received some divine gifts. Gordab the half ogre was granted wisdom, Anita strength of will and body (that she had traded her voice at the goblin market for better ammunition leaves her with shyness and disturbing voice (whisper) could not be undone). Rosewood the emo Pixie was granted a vampiric adjustment to their magic bolt, Dyrr enhanced Dex, and Pyrr resistance to normal weapons. Gathika was given a chinchilla familiar, Shawn was relieved of his accursed dietary requirements, and a bunch of points. Nagga, who had acquired the Sword of the Night, was given greater weapon bond to it, and some spare points. They are currently heading off to do some debt collecting in a much more mundane setting than their trip to the underworld, and are hoping not to meet any more deities.

Pointwise, the highest level character in this game would be Christine the fire witch, who weighs in at just over 320 pts, and they have been playing for 11 years.

She and her crew defeated the giants who had been hurling rocks at the ice mage, but discovered that the ice mage may have been creeping on the Frost Giant’s daughter, but they did not pursue the matter further, despite my readiness to have a pitched battle.

The tenants of the former vampire tower accomplished a curse removal at the shrine of St. Hubert, and defeated a number of werewolves who sought to interrupt the proceedings. I now have them heading off the another published adventure, The Black Wyrm of Brandonsford.

This one reminds me of Eustace’s misadventure in the Narnian Chronicles. The group has fought a dragon-like foe before (a legendary fire slorn) but their prior techniques may not work on the titular foe. (I will provide my conversion stats after they defeat it).

The sub juniors have, with the assistance of a hired npc necromancer originally played as a PC in the game back in 2002, along with his zombie minions, captured a wight (not the master wight that goes by “Nobody” after the fashion of Odysseus, but a significant one) on behalf of the Sage Bertram, who is seeking all manner of undead in hopes of becoming a lich.

The trading with trolls bunch have met and parleyed with the lich whose undead they were butchering, and escaped due to his distraction. The lich in particular had been another PC in the game some years back, and had been the one responsible for naming my version of the Plated Mage from Stonehell “Flax”, whom a couple of groups have run into before. They just trounced a gelatinous cube and are nearly back at the troll warrens originally cleared by Christine the Fire Witch.

My original junior group has finally decided to use the bone gate, to investigate a castle in a wintry surround, which they suspect is inside a snow globe they snatched from the demonically run shop of curiosities a few years back.

In the land of winter, my other group of demon hunters have defeated a Bone devil along with several doom children.

The primary demon hunters in the devil’s workshop managed to defeat a number of demons… Several of the watchmen with their tridents were dispatched, including one obliterated by one of the flaming skulls from the land mines, and another warrior demon that had belonged to a long since gone demonologist player. He has shown up a couple of times, a basic Warrior of Hell type from Magic with enhancements of winged and steelskin, and armed with a polearm instead of a sword and shield.

He was Banished at an extreme cost of unconsciousness and near death from FP loss, and given his high DR, was only being affected by a skull spirit he defeated and by one character’s magic bolt.

They were able to defeat a Peshkali demon, that came through the gate before Ardenas the martial artist used power blow to destroy both the gate and the magic mirror, mostly because it critically failed an attack, and smashed its flung scimitar through the window on the gremlin tank, causing it to be triple cursed. My demons do not play well with each other, and with -3 on all rolls, it fell down the stairs and With Suleiman keeping it Dazed, they were able to cut off its arms, despite the two fighting types being primarily equipped with spears, which do the wrong damage type against limbs and homogenous foes.

Once again, I find that almost all of my players seem to be surprised when an opponent has more than 2 DR, even in the case of the werewolves, and the Bone devil, who had conditional DR.

I have played with a variety of ways to replicate “Can be hit only by magical weapons” ranging from full on invulnerability with Achilles heel of silver or magic, to using Damage tolerance the halves mundane damage (per level), allowing for some catastrophic attacks to still do something, to the simpler method of high DR vs mundane attacks. The werewolves as written have DR 10 vs everything but silver or fire, and the earth priest was lobbing boulders at them to no great effect. The Bone devil, for example

had ludicrous Armor class and could only be hit by magical weapons and had magic resistance, so I gave it DR5, DR 10 vs mundane, and enhanced magic resistance. It was flying and invisible until it attacked, which was principally against the celestial in the party, and had this nifty weapon, which shattered when parried critically by the celestial’s orichalcum staff.