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DCC RPG — Session Recap (Friday, May 29th)Group: Dungeons in BlueGame Master: Carlos Hill, Paladin Hill GamesPlayers:Jef...
05/31/2026

DCC RPG — Session Recap (Friday, May 29th)
Group: Dungeons in Blue
Game Master: Carlos Hill, Paladin Hill Games
Players:Jeff as Grom, WarriorDylan as Dwolor, DwarfTiffany as Zelda, ElfGuest Tess as Stephanie, wizards apprentice

🎞️ “Beneath the Dune, Something Stirred…”

The desert wind howls across Yatalashaa Almanzil as the heroes return—children rescued, villagers mourning, and the sands whispering of new dangers.

Night falls.
Three wolves prowl the dunes.
One bears a rider.
A hobgoblin silhouette watches… and buries something beneath the moonlit sand.

The village trembles.
The heroes rise.

🔥 “Four Volunteers. One Dune. A Secret Waiting to Strike.”
Grom stands like a fortress of iron.
Dwolor sharpens his axe, muttering dwarven oaths.
Zelda’s eyes narrow, catching every shift of the wind.
Stephanie, trembling but resolute, grips her spear.

The dune begins to vibrate.
The sand ripples like water.
And then—

A giant spider erupts from below, a goblin clinging to its back, shrieking triumph as it lunges for the orphan.

Steel flashes.
Magic hums.
The creature falls, crushed beneath the fury of the party.

A satchel spills open:
A flawless tourmaline, gleaming like frozen starlight…
And ten black silver coins, cold as the grave.

🌑 “The Cave of Wolves Awaits.”
The heroes press on.
Three goblin wolf riders guard the entrance, snarling in the half‑light.

Inside—
An underground river glows faintly.
A dire wolf drinks.
A goblin sleeps.

Grom strikes first.
But the wolf escapes.
The goblin flees.
And the cave awakens.

Goblins swarm.
A hobgoblin bellows orders.
The chamber becomes a storm of teeth, steel, and blood.

When the dust settles…
The moneylender lies still.
The orphan’s small form does not rise.
Stephanie kneels beside them, shaking.

And deeper in the cave…
Dwolor lifts his head.
He smells gold.
A hoard.
A dragon’s ransom.
Five tunnels stretch into darkness

One filled with the rumbling breaths of sleeping dire wolves.

The adventure is far from over.

⭐ Total XP Earned to date: 122

Who are you at this table?Lets make a party of adventurers.
05/28/2026

Who are you at this table?
Lets make a party of adventurers.

Portal Under the Stars Session RecapThe Portal Opened at The Gamer's Lounge Twenty hopeful peasants stepped through the ...
05/24/2026

Portal Under the Stars Session Recap

The Portal Opened at The Gamer's Lounge
Twenty hopeful peasants stepped through the ancient archway beneath the stars, five players guiding their doomed flock. Two were brand‑new to DCC, and they got the full funnel baptism.

💥 The Warmage Statue Detonates
The warmage statue didn’t just malfunction—
a plugged barrel turned it into a magical pipe bomb.
The resulting blast shredded several peasants instantly.
A perfect DCC introduction for the two new players.

🐍 Ssisssuraaaaggg Meets the Blade
The serpent guardian slithered forth, hissing doom. A tactical withdrawal and they swarmed it.
Ssisssuraaaaggg was decapitated, its head rolling across the stone floor as the party cheered.

💀 The Seven Piles of Living Bones
The skeletal collective took a grim bargain:
one of their own for two peasants.
one skeletal pile collapsed into inert bone dust, the remaining bones slowly swarmed and in return,
A trade completed, and the party moved on.

🔮 The Crystal Pool
Crystalline beings drifted lazily around the shimmering pool.
The peasants poked, prodded, and eventually harvested several crystals.
The beings shambled away, more confused than hostile.

⚔️ The War Room
Downstairs, the miniature armies on the war table.
These were simple constructs—no sinister intelligence—
and one in the party smashed them with gleeful abandon.
A brief moment of levity before the real danger.

🏺 The Clay Army Awakens
In a separate chamber, the clay soldiers stirred.
The clay warmage began to rise, and panic rippled through the group.

One brave soon‑to‑be‑hero charged the clay warmage directly,
buying precious seconds while the others sprinted to finish draining the magical pools.

🌊 The Drainage Race
The final sluice opened just in time.
The clay warmage froze mid‑gesture, its army collapsing into lifeless clay.
The party survived by seconds.

💰 Treasure & Glory
Seven peasants emerged alive—scarred, triumphant, and now true adventurers.
Treasure was claimed, stories were forged, and two new players got the full DCC experience.

We are looking to start new RPG campaigns after Gen Con.Every other week schedule, with fridays being in Elizabethton at...
05/21/2026

We are looking to start new RPG campaigns after Gen Con.
Every other week schedule, with fridays being in Elizabethton at The Blue Post and Saturdays split between Johnson City at The Outpost and Bristol at The Gamer's Lounge
Have multiple campaign ideas within a few different game systems, and dedicated swag packages planned for them.
This will give dedicated play groups, a 35 yr experienced game master, consistent schedule for awaiting adventures.

When the game HAS to be good!

🛡️ Paladin Hill invites you toThe Gamer's Lounge !**Free-to-Play DCC RPG** **Saturday, May 23rd @ 6:00 p.m.**We'll be r...
05/20/2026

🛡️ Paladin Hill invites you toThe Gamer's Lounge !

**Free-to-Play DCC RPG**
**Saturday, May 23rd @ 6:00 p.m.**

We'll be running the classic
**The Portal Under the Stars** — the legendary 0-level funnel where your peasant villagers charge through a celestial portal in search of glory, gold, and survival.

New players highly welcome. Expect deadly traps, strange statues, iron men, and the very real chance your character will die horribly.

Drop a ⚔️ below if you're coming!

Paladin Hill Games is marching into Gen Con 2026 with a full warband of adventures! We’re bringing 15 scheduled games, ...
05/17/2026

Paladin Hill Games is marching into Gen Con 2026 with a full warband of adventures!
We’re bringing 15 scheduled games, 3 Game Masters, and a treasure hoard of free swag for our players.

⚔️ WHAT WE’RE RUNNING
- Dungeon Crawl Classics — Weird magic, brutal funnels, and old‑school chaos.
- Mutant Crawl Classics — Post‑apocalyptic science‑fantasy with mutants, manimals, and ancient tech.

🎁 FREE PLAYER SWAG
- Custom Dice Bags
- Custom Luck Tokens
- Skinny Mini Miniatures

🎙️ OUR GAME MASTERS
- Carlos Hill — High‑energy OSR adjudication, deadly but fair.
Thur: "Ten over R’lyeh"
Fri: "The Marvels of Doom"
Sat: "Finding Kelynn, a Dove Perch adventure"
- Mike Hawkins — Old‑school dungeon‑delving, rulings‑over‑rules, gritty fantasy tone.
Fri & Sat "Famine from Snake Mountain"
- Tyler Tolbert — The Rookie with fresh energy, fast pacing, and fearless enthusiasm.
Fri & Sat "Gaze of the Beholden"

📅 WHERE TO FIND US
We’re running games all weekend long — funnels, crawls, MCC expeditions, and late‑night chaos.

If you’re coming to Gen Con 2026, come roll weird dice with us.
Paladin Hill Games — When the game HAS to be good!

📜 DCC RPG — Session Recap (Friday, May 15th)Hosted at The Blue Post Game Master: Carlos Hill, Paladin Hill Games Player...
05/17/2026

📜 DCC RPG — Session Recap (Friday, May 15th)
Hosted at The Blue Post
Game Master: Carlos Hill, Paladin Hill Games
Players:
- Tyler as Sir Rafael, Cleric of the Great Cthulhu
- Jeff as Grom, Warrior
- Dylan as Dwaler, Dwarf

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🌵 Into the Desert After the Lost Children
The heroes discovered that goblins were still driving the missing children deeper into the sands. With urgency rising, the party gathered six peasants from the village of Yatalashaa Almanzil and set out to rescue them.

Despite the peasants’… less‑than‑heroic battlefield grace, the group managed to surprise the goblin watch, seizing an early advantage before the real fight began.

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⚔️ Two more Waves of Goblins — and a Brutal Fight
The battle was fierce and came in two crashing waves.

Highlights:

- Grom’s critical hits were the stuff of legend — two massive crits that carved through the goblin ranks.
- Dwaler delivered a devastating critical to a hobgoblin, turning a dangerous moment into a heroic one.
- Two peasants fell in the fighting, giving their lives in the rescue attempt.

Then came the darkest moment:
Korvag the Slave‑Driver, a hobgoblin commander, revealed herself holding a child hostage. Sir Rafael attempted a desperate long‑range shot to end her threat… but the arrow struck the hostage instead.

Korvag fled, killing another child as she escaped, while her goblins had already slain three more to deter pursuit.
The party pressed on, cutting down the remaining monsters and ending the slaughter.

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🗺️ A Map, a Cave, and a New Threat
Searching the bodies, the party found a map pointing to a nearby cave.
It referenced:

- Grazzok the Wolf‑Strider, a hobgoblin of rank
- Water sources for wolves
- Space designated for treasure

A clear sign that the enemy force is organized, supplied, and preparing for something bigger.

The heroes escorted the surviving children and peasants back to Yatalashaa Almanzil to regroup and plan their next move.

⭐ Total Party XP: 115
(Third level)

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