The Red Dice Diaries

As  they lurk in the darkness behind the communal haven of the violated  anarch coterie known as the Tourists, the kindred are challenged by a  mysterious, commanding voice for them to show themselves and face  judgement.

Lead by the mysteriously deferential blind boatman, Franco takes hold of a heavy Anchor and sinks down into the depths for a meeting with the mysterious hidden Masters...

𝐓𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲?

Ugo  begins to investigate the ancient families of the boat people seeking  the mystery of the blind beggar, whilst Franco searches for answers to a  more modern puzzle.

With  a stolen fetter taken from the Il Redentore church, Aurelio summons a  shade from the dark past of Venice, but will it bring wisdom or  damnation?

As our coterie of wanderers and necromantic leg-breakers begin to  investigate the deeper mysteries lurking in Venice, puzzles whose nature  might be linked to the very layout of the city, a more modern diversion  raises its head.

A murdered priest brings a group of unlikely Kindred together in the  damp districts of Venice, and the circumstances of his death threaten to  unearth a greater mystery drowned beneath the city for decades.

After wrapping up our Smoke & Snow OSE campaign we've decided to run  a short/finite campaign of a different system and genre, after some  discussion we decided to run a Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition game  set in Venice. In our session 0 we talk creating characters and what  sort of game we want.

Gathering a horde of barbarian Ice-walker tribesmen lead by Brock, the  party surge north towards the dark fief of Drakovia, seeking to confront  and defeat their most deadly foe, the ancient vampire known as the  Crimson King. But will they find victory or defeat in a frozen castle,  where sometimes death is not the worst fate that can befall a person?

𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐅𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟖𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟐𝟗𝟓𝐀𝐄

With our heroes forced to retreat from the ancient Solar Knight tomb occupied by the mad necromancer Albert Al-Harrad, the body of Brock's wife Lann was abandoned and now perhaps dances to the tune of the necromancers dark powers. And what is the evil wizard's link to the mysterious vampiric Blood King?

In New Seal Land our heroes gather their forces as a vengeful Brock prepares to lead a team of warriors back to the island to re-take the body of his lost love.

𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟓𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟐𝟗𝟓𝐀𝐄

Nursing  injuries inflicted by the zombie horde in the sub-levels of the Solar  Mausoleum our heroes now face the choice of continuing their exploration  despite their wounds, or trying to fight their way back through the  subterranean world of the Maw

𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟓𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟐𝟗𝟓𝐀𝐄

After  defeating the troll-like creatures our heroes have continued their  exploration of the Maw; discovering a buried tomb/chapel of the Solar  Knights they have battled the undead and passed through the fury of a  poltergeist and now seek to plumb the depths of the tomb complex.

𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐅𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟐𝟗𝟓𝐀𝐄

Exploring  the depths of a crumbling, flooding temple dedicated to the Old God  known as the Great Serpent our heroes find themselves confronted by a  group of great clawed beasts that rise from the water dripping water and  rank weed from their rubbery bodies.

𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟏𝟐𝟗𝟓𝐀𝐄

Having  returned from their adventures in and around Brackenwold our heroes set  off with their patron, the philosopher's stone seeking Fabrio  Tagleroni, we join them as they prepare to board a ferry to the Beast's  Maw.

Our heroes return to New Seal Land where Quentin has some plans for the  criminal cartel known as the Crimson Coin, they also meet a strange  figure hoping to set up shop in their home town.

𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 20𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟏𝟐𝟗𝟓𝐀𝐄

Quentin has completed his initiation into the criminal syndicate known as the Crimson Coin, acting as liaison between the merciless criminals and his companions, but who is the mysterious Duke who lurks in the shadows giving the gang their orders, unknown to all but his lieutenant?

As they ponder this, a fresh mystery arrives at their doorstep courtesy of an unexpected source.

𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 17𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟏𝟐𝟗𝟓𝐀𝐄

Wymar  has been pronounced the Castellan of New Seal Land, but will he be able  to walk the fine line between military protector and politician? And  who or what is the mysterious Crimson Coin believed to be responsible  for the rising crime rates in the town?

𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝟏𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟏𝟐𝟗𝟓𝐀𝐄

After  getting their bearings and facing down the lupines of Wolf Forest our  heroes make their way back to the village they once called home, but  much has changed in their absence.

𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝟖𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟏𝟐𝟗𝟓𝐀𝐄

Our heroes have recovered the Greensteel and have returned to Valkonnen to find that ten years have passe during their sojourn in Dolmenwood; but with the Greensteel removed, the delicate magic holding the demiplace apart from Valkonnen runs wild, ley-lines bent out of position for many years snap back into place with angry fury as the two realms begin to collide.

Can our heroes reconnect to a world that has moved on without them, and will the world ever be the same?

Having rescued the young friar from the clutches of the screeching Harpies our heroes thoughts now turn to their quest for the mystical Greensteel.

Our heroes have arrived at the ruined Abbey of St Clewyd, a place of screeching danger and betrayal.

Contemplating the cost of retrieving the Green blade and what it might mean for both the Dolmenwood and Valkonnen, our heroes begin their search for the dreaded Drune.

Having passed through the portal into the strange realm known as the Dolmenwood, our heroes have passed through the balmy forest and found lodgings at the Poppy Cock Inn just outside the walls of Brackenwold. They rest up for the night, planning to explore their strange new surroundings

The  vampire in charge of the logging camp and his ghoul minion have been  exposed to the purifying light of day and slain, but parties unknown  have kidnapped Malcolm taking him away in a cart, The canny hunter has  dropped some of the documents in his possession like breadcrumbs for his  fellows to follow.

They  begin a desperate pursuit over the snow-shrouded landscape, can they  catch up with the cart and free Malcolm before he reaches his grisly  destination?

And what of the strange portal to the Dolmenwood that the party has discovered?

With New Seal Land reeling from a vampiric attack and Cotton Nichol abducted, our heroes set off in search of Malcolm Harp and the party of guards he took into the Wolf Forest to hunt the creatures.

Rested from their recent encounter with a strange blood-sucking creature our heroes have spent two weeks recovering in their home village of New Seal Land. They now attend a meeting at Staffstone Tower with Lord Brannan to discuss their future...

Our heroes have returned to their home in New Seal Land, laden down with the spoils of their recent conquest of the Inlet Pirates, but strange happenings are afoot in their home town and perhaps romance is in the air for Brock?  

After fending of the attentions of a hired assassin and conducting perilous negotiations with the Hag Peggy Greenteeth our heroes push on, determined to reach the shelter inlet they believe is being used as a secondary base by the pirates.

Our heroes visit the village of Deersun to investigate the mysterious figure that has been seen lurking around their blighted storage barns.  

The heroes are returning to New Seal Land in the company of Mercy Dixon, the castellan of the newly built Staffstone Tower. She has a curious proposal from them from Lord Brannan.

Our heroes plan to return to their neighbouring village of Deersun to lay to rest the unquiet spirit of their deceased hireling Gordon Sinclair, on the way they run into ruthless pirates and perhaps a surprising ally.  

Our heroes have discovered the existence of a magical portal a couple of days to the east of their home village, but the strange Leng people and their elder may possess knowledge that could aid them in this discovery.

A huge chaos beast rises from the ground, our heroes flight from it leads them to an abandoned, woodland cottage suffused with enchantment, will this reveal the mysteries of the ancient Sena and the deadly Drune?  

With Brock and Malcolm slowly succumbing to the cursed disease that threatens to take their lives, they desperately seek succour in a nearby hamlet and are set on a trail that leads them to a strange, pulsating dungeon, but what secrets does this mysterious trove contain?  

Having  evacuated the survivors of the Fort Kersey siege to New Seal Land, our  heroes set off in pursuit of the treasures promised by the old map they  discovered in a bear cave a long time ago.

With  the aid of our heroes the defenders of Fort Kersey have managed to  repel the initial wave of Shadow Elf attackers, however the main force  now surrounds the Fort trapping our heroes, the defenders and civilians  inside. Can our heroes help break the deadly siege?

Having  saved the Dwarven money Kroznon from the strange elf-like figures and  having recovered goods from a ruined Sena stronghold, our heroes are  heading for home.

But the shadow of those who assaulted Kroznon stretches after them.

After  many adventures and the awakening of the Frost Wyrm in the East our  heroes glimpse the promise of Mithril in a cold mountain stream.

Our heroes head northwards towards the Grey Heights, risking the dangers  of the oncoming Valkonen winter in pursuit of the precious Mithril  believed to lie in the depths of the mountains.   -- Watch live at  https://www.twitch.tv/reddicediaries

The Roper is revealed! Can our heroes defeat this beast or will they meet an ignominious end in the caverns below the Grey Heights?

Having bartered an alliance with the bandits of the Whalesong Woods, our heroes have learned more about the villainous seneschal of Fort Eastburn and plan to head north into the mountains in search of the source of his fell power.

As a strange eclipse dims the light of the sun, lending everything a ruddy red hue, our heroes first ponder how to deal with the bronze golem at the ruined tower and then strike out, first for the rumoured settlement of Deersun and then to keep their meeting with the leader of the Whalesong Wood Bandits at distant Fort Eastburn.

In this session out heroes return to New Seal Land and then strike out for the reputedly haunted Whalesong forest, seeking to find the ruined tower lying in it's depths.

With the mutant Coldwalkers freed from the mystical control of the warlock Takret, our heroes attempt to forge an unlikely alliance between the Frost Dwarves and the mutants.

Whilst Leopold tries to garner support from his cousins the Frost Dwarves of the Witch Isle, his fellows travel to the southern ruins where the undead remnants of the Order Solaris do battle with the mutant hordes of Takret the warlock.

With Leopold gone to seek possible allies from the Frost Dwarves the rest of our heroes are left to make camp for the evening and consider their next move, during the night--whilst Brother Lomas is saying his prayers to Leander--the soft, dragging footfalls of the undead are heard moving through the trees towards their camp.

Our heroes have decided to return to the Witch Isle in an attempt to learn more about--and if possible put a stop to--the rising of the dead that occurs their on a nightly basis, they are joined by the Friar of New Seal Land, Brother Lomas.

The weather has turned worse as our party try and make their way from the forbidding Grey Peaks to return to their home village and make plans for their future.