Golden Vault: Eldritch horror heist, part 1

We met our contact person from the Vault and were handed a small safe to be opened, as a test to our skills. We were also handed this safe IRL. I was thoroughly impressed.

Golden Vault: A D&D 5e heist adventure series

We embarked upon a new quest, a series[1] of heist-type adventures with an almost brand-new DM[2]. Some serious thought went into this, with a set of homebrew rules, which I won't detail here, as they are honestly just common sense.

The set up: there is a mysterious organization called the Golden Vault who supposedly do good by, erm, committing crimes. Working for them results in various benefits, not least of which is monetary compensation. This is more than enough for most adventurers, including our own crew:

• Arik, human cleric
• Aris, deep gnome wizard
• Teek, firbolg cleric
• Thaldor, mountain dwarf fighter
• Zermong, eladrin wizard
• 50 Copper, dark elf rogue[3]

After a short session 0, we were on to our first heist. Definitely no metagaming going forwards!

[1] Or, at least that is the plan.

[2] Previously: Lighthouse under attack: a D&D 5E one-shot

[3] Yeah, that's me, in case you hadn't guessed. I have expertise in performance, can rap and beatbox, besides dealing drugs and talking smooth.

Painting female gnome bards

I bought these two on a whim and I was then horrified at how small they are: 15mm head to toe (a bit taller with the fancy hats) and not heroic scale, I think. Another type of challenge then!

Painting a ghost and banshee

I happened upon the female kickstarter miniatures buried in a drawer. First to be painted up is Caoimhe, Restless Spirit and her banshee variant.

Painting D&D Ghouls

Time to paint these ancient miniatures to experiment with yet another zombie skin paint scheme.

Dungeon of the Mad Mage: Princess of zombies

New year, new fight... we resumed mid combat, with a slightly different party, and more monsters attacking from all sides. 

Painting Lord of the Rings Hobbits

I thought I had a larger variety of hobbits, but it turned out I had 5 Frodo miniatures and an armored Pippin.