Minotaur Workshop

Author: Working Minotaur

  • The Story So Far (The Boiling Mountain

    Our story begins on what was an ordinary day. Kandra was on her way back from her shift at the Wild Dome. When she along with many others (including Lawrence and Malachai) around all levels of the Boiling Mountain’s sprawling city fell into caverns where they were attacked by creatures made of black smoke. After a tough fight they were able to resist the creature with minimal harm. After the attacks, all that were involved were taken to be questioned by the City Watch.

    There, the party members present overheard murmurs of black crystals being moved around, but could not find out more information.

    Flashback to heist with Kandra assisting Malachai

    Lawrence meeting with the King

    Enlisting the help of Kandra and Malachai

    Cut to Balin’s banishment after the fight with the Stone Construct

    The meeting dream with the Fates

    Meeting with the Hypnomancer

    Meeting with the Archmage

    Discovering that the Hypnomancer is missing

    Contact with Watch Commander to find out more about what’s happening

    Balin returning, along with Toombs finding a job with the Makers’ Union

    Balin and Toombs meeting the others

    Malachai making deal with the dark entity

    Toombs seeing the deal that Malachai made, not knowing it was him. Discovering that the entity is purely magical

    The party trying to get information about the meet that’s happening later (smugglers trying to get the White Crystal out)

    The fight in the cave against the smugglers, Kandra and Balin’s separate discoveries

    Finding out about the brewing rebellion, Toombs realises that the attackers are likely already in the mountain and that all the defenses are facing outwards

    Feeding the crystal and finding out that its living, how it can die, and what it represents

    Meetings with the Commander, Archmage, and the King

    Discovering that someone has been hiring assassin’s to kill off members of the Makers Union

    Fighting the black dragon in the abandoned mine

    The crystal spirit taking on more colours and creating a small haven based on the party members deep in the mine

  • Boiling Mountain (2025-09-30)

    The group meets up again at the Wild Dome to share everything that they have found so far

    Balin share’s what he learned from his contact in the palace. Rockspeare, a veteran member of the King’s Guard was involved with the attempt to move the Mountain Spirit and kill it. The group surmise that he’s likely in league with the Salesmen to overthrow the King.

    Balin also shares the nature of the oath that he and all the other members of the King’s Guard take. Should they do anything to endanger a member of the royal family then the magic would take the oath breaker’s life.

    Kandra continues the investigation of the Thieves’ Guild. With help from Malachi and Rein, who manage to sneak Kandra in, they uncover many redacted reports regarding actions that Rockspeare has commissioned from the Guild. The information gathered shows that they are running out of options.

    In the meantime Toombs, Balin, and Lawrence around the city to see if the defenses can be reinforced. As they tour the city, it occurs to Toombs and Balin if the Salesmen are truly in league with Rockspeare, then any attacks will likely come from within the city leaving the battlements useless.

    The group goes to see what more information Commander Bronzescale can provide and to share what they have gathered so far. The commander shares that more movement has been happening and they are likely running out of time before the attacks start.

    She shares that much of her investigation led her to the same conclusions, but the group notice that the mine that was given to the Sanguine Saints sits in the middle of the mines that have been closed off.

    Deciding to investigate a neighbouring mine, as this would give them opportunity to do so without attracting unnecessary attention. As they go deeper and deeper into the mine, they see a mix of black and white crystals that they have been investigating all these months.

    As they reach what they believe to be a cavern at the end of the mine, they all notice a massive black dragon. They are all frozen in place as they check if the dragon had seen them as well…

  • Boiling Mountain (2025-09-16)

    Our heroes having just left the Archmage’s office having successfully fooled him regarding the small spirit that they discovered, decide to seek some guidance from other sources. They decide to see the city watch commander, Nala Bronzescale. Commander Bronzescale gives them some advice, mentioning that there are rumours of the Salesmen building up some sort of militia to be able overthrow the King.

    Malachi and Rein return to the Thieves’ Guild to dig through old reports. They manage to uncover a list of successful assassinations, the targets are all members of the aristocracy and higher ups in the Makers’ Union.

    Toombs going through a different path to learn more information, decides to find more spiritual guidance. Finding the a dragonborn druid named Dreardis in the royal gardens. The druid explains to Toombs the connection between the spirit gems and totems, or “stations” as the archmage put it. According to Dreadis these spirits are ever changing representing the current state of their station.

    While according the Archmage, once a spirit exists as a totem, they cement the very nature of the thing they represent.

    Balin decided to follow up on the information from the Commander, and goes to meet with one of his contacts with the King’s Guard that will still meet with him. An older dwarven woman, tells Balin that the general is on her way back. Adding more complications between the different dwarven factions.

    Malachi was once again visited by the dark entity that has been plaguing him for the last few months. The entity did not answer any of Malachi’s questions. It thanked Malachi for giving it form.

  • Foundry Development

    I’m starting to get into Foundry VTT development for a few plugins, and there are a few things that I know other GMs really wish that they could have on the on their instances.

    Each module that I develop for Foundry will always be available to all members of the public free of charge.

    I can’t guarantee when the modules would be complete as I would be working on them in my free time. I will be updating my progress here in my posts but also here Foundry Development where each card would have the same status updates in a more easy to fine place.

  • Hazards for Mines in TTRPGs

    Need hazards for a mine that aren’t just falling down a cliff?

    Try using giant vats of cyanide! Cyanide is most famously used a the default poison used in most war and spy movies, but for those that don’t know cyanide is commonly used in mining to separate gold, silver and other precious metals from other impurities.

    Its easier then smelting the gold and requires much less energy. Its also incredibly poisonous to pretty much anything living on the planet and environmental impact is debated due to its quick decay in sunlight.

    For some quick references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_cyanidation