A male human, large and brawny, wearing a bear pelt as a cloak and hefting a Greataxe, with two more handaxes thrust into his belt, together with a small sprightly female elf, wearing clothing made from woven plants and carrying a handmade wooden longbow, a quiver of arrows, and two shortswords at her waist, journey into a town on the edges of the Savage Frontier in the north of the continent of Faerun.
Their arrival is pure chance, no one yet knows who they are or why this odd pair travels together. They look wild and barbaric, and their reasons for entering such modest civilization is unknown. Perhaps they are there to trade for food, or rest in between some other long journey, or maybe to start a new life away from the harsh wilderness. Whatever the reason, their arrival was cursed with misfortune, for no sooner had they the opportunity to rest their feet when a surprise force of Giants attacked!
Campaign notes: Starting at level 3, skipping Chapter 1 entirely because it doesn't take place in the Savage Frontier, is inconsequential to the rest of the story, and is a boring railroad only meant to push PCs to level 5 quickly. The authors of the adventure more or less expected players to skip it.
Background information for the North is locked behind Chapter 3, so I must play Ch 2 first, so my character's histories and motivations will remain enigmatic for now.
Bryn Shander is a total bust, the battle with Drufi the Frost Giant, her two Frost Giant bodyguards and her two pet Wolves of Winter resulted in a Total Party Kill two times. There is no way my created party could manage that battle as written. The side quests that result from keeping NPCs alive all suck, and take you down south along the Sword Coast to the large metropolitan cities of Waterdeep and Neverwinter, where you engage in urban and political encounters, when I would rather stay inland the North and engage in barbarian High Adventure. So rather than modify the attack and city to fit my Savage campaign desires, I'm focusing on one of the other two towns.
next session, the party is remade and the story begins from scratch at Triboar.
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