restoration-prince:
Drinks and Dragons
Ephraim looked down at the pretty pink dice and picked them up in his hand. Rolling them over in his hands, he had wondered if Lyon was doing well during these times. Ephraim knew that Lyon didn’t leave his house often enough. But he had still missed him terribly.
Ephraim leaned over to grab one of the manuals that Genny had mentioned but when it was opened, Ephraim’s eyes lost the words to read. He shut the book again, reading was never one of his stronger suits. He didn’t have the attention span to create a campaign but he could certainly help Genny.
He leaned back in his chair to look over at Genny, “Hey, Genny, can I just help you torture your group? I don’t have the brains to make my own campaign. I can totally help you with yours though.” He grinned and grabbed his drink, espresso with cream mainly in his drink. He slowly brought it to his lips and drank a good portion of it. “And nah, Lyon gave up on his campaign when our friends had moved away and couldn’t participate anymore.”
Ephraim still held her die in his hands and just fumbled with the dice, hearing the clatter with the dice rubbing against each other. It almost soothed him.
It didn’t take long for Genny to get her overly sweet and highly caffeinated refill and she settled back into her seat as Ephraim asked if he could torture the group. She huffed a laugh into her mug. “You don’t need to make a whole campaign, just start with a single room. Here, I’ll show you.”
She pulled a piece of graph paper out of her binder and laid it alongside the book, propping it open to the dungeon-crafting index. “So you have all these charts, right? I roll a d10 to pick the starting area...” She plucked a dice from the tray and rolled it, frowning as it came up on 10. “I don’t like starting on an intersection so I’m gonna roll again.” She grinned as it came up a more reasonable 2 on the next roll: a simple 20 by 20 room with two doors and an archway. ”From here I can sketch out the square on the graph paper and then add the doors wherever I want. I just have to consult another table to get types of doors and stuff. There’s also charts for what feeling the room gives off. Let’s make this one... a death trap.”
Genny rolled another dice and jotted down some notes next to the room. “Looks like this was a fortified guardroom, which is a pretty good place for players to break into initially.” She held the die out to Ephraim. “Want to see what the doors are like?”
Her brain caught up with the rest of the conversation and she frowned thoughtfully, “I’m not at full player capacity yet, if you wanted to pop in there is room for one more. Or two, if your friend is still in the area.”









