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The Pioneers Campaign

Most organized and coherent of my original campaigns. Ran under AD&D rules in 1984 and 1985. After college, it morphed into a Fantasy Hero campaign centered around the characters Rhae and Shardanna. Later, it evolved into the D'Hari Campaign.

Player characters:

Significant Non-player characters:

Timeline

For a summary of the main campaign arc, see the story of Bar and The Great Map.

Here is a calendar of the Pioneers (as transcribed by Rhae):

2711

Aug 1 Rhae sets out on her first patrol
Aug 13 Larindel saves Rhae from the Ogre
Aug 18 Rhae and Larindel arrive back at Caran. Rhae and Loquen resign from the Rangers and set off adventuring with Larindel.
Aug 20 Leave Caran and decide to see the Spire
Aug 25 Rescue girl from some goblins
Aug 26 Arrive in Rep Klin and leave the girl with relatives
Aug 27 Leave Rep Klin in the direction of the Spire to go after the goblins
Aug 28 Arrive at the Spire and meet Logan
Aug 30 Find Sirilus
Aug 31 Alsif sends us on a quest to assemble the map
Sep 1 Arrive back at Rep Klin
Sep 2 Leave for Vollarin
Sep 8 Arrive in Vollarin
Sep 9 Leave for Ice Cave with Trevvi
Sep 11 Arrive at the Cave
Sep 12 Find Shardanna and the first segment of the map
Sep 15 Fight an Ogre and find the second segment
Sep 20 Arrive back in Vollarin
Sep 21 Begin work for the Clerics
Oct 22 Finish work for the Clerics
Oct 23 Leave Vollarin for the coast
Nov 1 Arrive at the Keep with the third map piece
Nov 3 Find fourth map piece in a sunken chest
Nov 4 Arrive at the coastal city of Poralai
Nov 11 Meet Aron at a Sewer station
Nov 12 Buy the fifth piece from a trinket salesman
Nov 13 Find the sixth piece at Bar's Castle #1, head south
Nov 22 Find a spy trailing us
Nov 29 Larindel killed by a poisonous snake so we raise him
Dec 3 Find pieces 7-8 and a magical book from Bar's second castle
Dec 16 Meet Jaslahar and find map pieces nine and ten

2712

Jan 1 Zolton appears in our campfire flames near Bar's third castle where we find the eleventh piece, he tells us to seek Alsif
Jan 23 Arrive in the capitol of Lural
Jan 27 Arrive in Rep Klin
Jan 28 See Alsif then set out for Qualarai
Feb 8 Find the portal to the elemental plane of air where we find the key to the magical book, head back to Rep Klin
Mar 20 Hire a boat to the southern islands
Mar 30 Arrive at the islands
Apr 2 Find map piece 12
Apr 5 Pepperell brings Shardanna down to the islands
Apr 12 Leave for second island
Apr 13 Find Bar's fourth Castle and map piece 13
Apr 17 Back to the main island
Apr 27 Investigate an island to the south
May 9 Find piece 14
May 14 Exorcise Loquen
May 23 Leave for the Valley of the Gray Wizard
May 24 The Valley of the Gray Wizard
May 30 Leave for the Main Continent
Jun 11 Back in the port city
Jun 30 Arrive in Rep Klin
Jul 1 See Alsif
Jul 2 Leave for the temple
Jul 3 Alsif recognizes the demonslayer
Jul 11 Leave for the Spire City
Jul 25 Leave for the Southern Continent
Aug 3 Arrive in the islands
Aug 4 Leave for the Southern Continent
Aug 14 Arrive at the Southern Continent
Aug 19 Find Bar's last keep
Aug 22 Arrive at the elvish city
Aug 28 Set sail for the islands
Sep 3 Back at the islands, the elves take us north
Sep 13 Arrive at the Northern Continent, go see Jaslahar
Sep 14 Leave for Rep Klin
Sep 17 Arrive at capitol of Lural - see Aron
Sep 19 Arrive at Rep Klin
Sep 30 Leave for the portal to the elvish city
Oct 8 Release Bar from the Portal
Oct 9 Go see the elves with Bar
Oct 18 Rhae gets her +2 sword with special abilities
Oct 19 Bar goes North and takes every one but Rhae and Larindel with him
(at this point, the calendar details the adventures of Rhae and Larindel)
Oct 20 Set out for Magical area
Oct 21 Arrive at the first river
Oct 22 Arrive at the second river
Oct 25 Go around the lake
Oct 29 Arrive at the third river
(seem to have lost November here?)
Dec 1 Arrive at the great river
Dec 7 Malicious attack by ravens
Dec 25 Taken by dragons and arrive at the cave of the evil magic user; Meet Ruthgar

2713

Jan 9 Back at the elvish city
Jan 10 Ring of negative energy is a fake
Jan 11 Leave for mountains
Jan 23 Cave of the magic user had been cleaned out
Jan 26 Dragon's cave
Jan 28 Find Giant's Keep and release a Jann who takes us North
Jan 31 Arrive on the Northern Continent
Feb 1 Enter the monastery
Feb 2 Boat to Japanese Kingdom
Feb 11 Arrive at the Japanese Kingdom
Feb 13 Leave city but Larindel is poisoned by a snake
Feb 14 Back to Japanese city and they neutralize poison
Feb 15 Leave city again
Mar 25 Arrive in Rep Klin, meet with Bar; Go to a village with portal problems, Larindel goes through the portal to the elemental plane of fire
Mar 29 Bar teleports Rhae to the elemental plane of fire; Rhae meets a deva and kills a demon
Mar 30 Go to an oracle
Mar 31 Head for river seen from the hill
Apr 1 Arrive at the city of Brass
Apr 2 Walk to the next village
Apr 9 Take the last ferry
Apr 15 Edge of the elemental plane of fire
Apr 16 Fall into the plane of air, meet Strei
Apr 22 Near Imex's castle, get the fire crystal
Apr 26 Find Larindel
Apr 27 Return to the prime material
Apr 28 Go east along the shore line
May 14 Go north along the river
May 26 Close to some mountains
Jun 28 Plains on the other side of the mountains
Jul 14 Take portal from D'hari to the islands
Jul 23 Take the portal to the northern continent
Jul 24 Fight the colddrake dragon
Sep 5 See vision of Lord Kier, High Priest of Glekdin; Head for portal
Sep 9 Larindel goes through the portal alone; Rhae heads back to Lural
Oct 1 Rhae enlists in the Ranger Corp

2715

Summer Rhae goes down to see the elves and asks about Larindel

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