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History Of Our Group

The Early Years

Richard and Iain first began roleplaying in the 3rd year of senior school (13 years old).

The group back then consited of:

  • Richard Belsey
  • Mark Cuthbertson
  • Peter Davies
  • Balraj Takkar

We played the kind of D&D you play when you're 13, all a great laugh and good fun. It was a homebrew campaign that we pieced together out of things that we wanted to run. I still have the original campaign map (hand-drawn of course) at home somewhere. DMs were Richard and Iain alternating.

We didn't play for that long if I recall certainly no more than a year.

The Uni Years

Iain picked up RPGs again at Uni as did Richard.

The Adult Years

Then somewhere around 1995, everyone long back from Uni and busy working and getting married and all that, we started again.

Dark Sun

We played a Dark Sun campaign run by Iain, the group was:

It was a fun campaign certainly, no-one will ever forget the now legendary quote.

Quote: James as Luap B'daum the Psionocist who has just run out of PSPs, "Okay I now have an open mind." Richard, "Let's tell him we're all gay!"

That Damn Spaceship Adventure

The next campaign was a short breather for Iain with James as DM. It was just a quick classic run of the mill dungeon crawl to have a blast. Turned out to be a spaceship not a dungeon!

Most memorable moment of that adventure would be this.

Quote: "I'll slap her."

We don't go there!

Frontier/Alternity

Next campaign was Alternity where Iain's wife Katherin joined us:

Most shocking moment of the campaign would have to the summary execution of a particularly low lowlife by the name of Denis Neadry:

Quote: Katherine playing Katasha, apparently complete unprovoked, "Katasha pulls out a knife and stabs him through the chest."

If I recall they hung him out of the window of his 90th floor apartment and tied him with bedsheets to the door handle so they could drop him to the pavement hundreds of feet below while leaving!

One of my faves,

Quote: Keith as Ryan the ex-marine, "Fucking duck!"

or

Quote: Richard (Rio) "Rio fills up the back of the van with all the explosives she can find and drives it into the office foyer."

Adventures in Kernow - Season One

Iain wrote his own world, Aarill, and detailed a northern continental group of islands, Kernow. The group at this time consisted of:

Iain DMed the first part with no particularly impressive meta-story, we then moved onto a couple of sessions run by Keith, which was a welcome break for the DM and a vast improvement over the last break Iain had!

The adventure no-one recalls that much, I remember hippy Rangers and evil loggers in there somewhere.

Adventures in Kernow - Season Two - The Time of Fire

Returning to the Islands of Kernow with a bunch of new characters and a new storyline were:

Adventures in Kernow - Season Three - The Desert of Desolation

This campaign, began in Kernow before we were transported magically across continents to lands far south of Kernow and are currently adventuring in the Desert of Desolation. DM this time is Richard. Iain is grateful for the break and grateful there's no spaceships or slapping.

The Shackled City

Next we moved onto the first publish adventures we've played since Dark Sun. We picket up the hardcover version of the Shackled City Adventure Path (SCAP). For more information on this campaign, see our SCAP Journal and Wiki at http://scap.teknophippy.com.

Of particular note would be Mark's/Bran's journal which makes great reading!

The Righteous Others were:

Iain's fave quote:

Iain: "Why don't you sell him Owyn?" Mark: "What could he possibly want him for?" Iain: "He's a fucking priest for fucks sake, Owyn's a god damned teenage boy! I'm sure they can think of something!"

The Luquin Sea

The current campaign and the one this wiki is for.

Rob and Drake left us. Mark's free time whittled away to less and less due to work, until he could no longer play. Katherine decided that she could no long play and look after the children. That left Iain and Keith. We put a notice on the Wizards forums and recruited a neighbour. Quite quickly we'd also gained two new players from the forums. So now the group is.