The Mahasarpa Campaign

I am in the process of setting up a lunchtime game of Oriental Adventures—not as a playtest, but because I miss DMing and want to play more D&D. The players so far are David Noonan, Mike Selinker (who wrote a trilogy of DRAGON articles some years ago about Indian characters, spells, and items in D&D), Gwen Kestrel (one of the book's editors), Anthony Valterra (the D&D business manager), Johnny Wilson (publisher for the periodicals department), and Eric Cagle (administrative assistant for the R&D department). Owen Stephens is sort of an honorary member of the campaign, since he urged me to start the game in the first place, while we were playing the L5R card game at the office. He moved back to Oklahoma before having a chance to actually join the game, however. Since we've moved the game to Thursday, Anthony has been unable to join us, and my wife Amy has joined in (once, so far, as of this writing...).

The Oriental Adventures web enhancement is a detailed writeup of the Mahasarpa campaign setting.

• The Mahasarpa adventure journal:
  • July 1: The first session
  • July 13: Big Snake
  • July 19: Arrival at Mahasarpa
  • September 24: Major Catch-Up
  • September 29: One Hurtin' Yuan-Ti Barbarian
  • December 8: The Rishi Is Free, The Rakshasa Is Not Dead
  • December 16: Now the Rakshasa Is Dead
  • April 12: Mega-update
  • July 4: Another mega-update
  • February 1: A mini mega update.
  • February 12: The latest instructions...

The ever-changing characters:

Kshatriya Bharat Bazaar (Mike): human kshatriya (samurai/Singh rager)
Feroz Battachariya (Johnny): human witch hunter (shaman/witch hunter)
Bahani (Amy): river spirit folk devapala (sohei)
Reverend Mother (Gwen): human ninja (rogue/ninja spy)
Samakar (Eric): human tattooed monk
Shadhbakht (David): human swami (wu jen/eunuch sorcerer)

dead or retired:

Felasia Snakebane (Gwen): vira-hrika (mongoose hengeyokai) swami (wu jen 9)
Tom Ka Gai (Anthony): human tattooed monk (monk 5/tattooed monk 4)
Doolaram (Eric): human yakuza (rogue 7/yakuza 2)
Keoni (David): human "soul-kukri" ( psychic warrior with the soulknife prestige class