Tales of Games Past

Whenever I run a major Rise campaign, I send out emails each week summarizing the events of the previous week. This helps everyone keep track of what's going on, it's fun to write, and it helps any players that missed a week catch up on what they missed. Each session also has "Stupid Awards", which commemorate memorable things that happened during the session in humorous and often pun-filled ways.

The Donut Saga

These stories tell the short tale of a ragtag group of adventurers who woke up in a basement and tried to make the world a slightly more donut-filled place. It's pretty short and silly, and a reasonable starting point. The rest of the campains after this one are in chronological order, so there's some early installment weirdness.

The Rite of Maturity

These stories tell the story of a group of involuntary do-gooders tasked with helping people as part of an ancient tradition called the Rite of Maturity. The party immediately decided to ignore all of the conveniently obvious quests and just walk south until something interesting happened.

This was the first campaign to have weekly email summaries, so some of the early details are tragically lost to time, and the first several emails are very short and only somewhat helpful. We didn't even use Stupid Awards until episode 17!

The Creation Mythos

These stories form a world-spanning epic about the struggles of gods, empires, and keeping a party of adventurers together admist frequently changing scheduling conflicts.

Ex-Cultists of Elysium

These stories tell the saga of a brave group of ex-cultists adrift in time who tried to save the world from demonic corruption. It's a direct sequel to The Creation Mythos, set in a world reshaped by the events of that campaign.

The Tale of Praxis

These stories take place in a world reshaped by a magical apocalypse that left only one city standing. A thousand years later, civilization expands as magic becomes acceptable again after centuries of prohibition, but dangerous forces work to reshape this budding future toward uncertain ends...