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=Welcome to the world of Sunlight Falls=

In January 2012, [[Khris Soden]] convinced a group of friends to play D&D, starting with the [[Safe Words | the Safe Words]] games. Khris wrote these games with a specific narrative and they were arranged into a “Season 1” and "Season 2". After these initial games, the original line-up of players changed and Khris transitioned to other games, introducing the [[Pick-Up Games]], which started as one- or two-episode games with a loose ongoing story structure. These mostly involved the [[Lents Irregulars]] and evolved into an ongoing narrative centered around the town of [[Lents]].

In 2017, Khris introduced the [[Explorer’s Club]] games, which were geared for newer players but also helped transition the players from playing D&D 3.5 edition to the 5th edition of the game.

In 2018, we played our first campaign, [[Shrine of the Coyote]]. This campaign was written by Khris and lasted for either five or six games.

In 2019, we played our first D&D published campaign, [[Curse of Strahd]]. Khris modified a lot of the module as written, including changing the Vistani into the [[Visitani]]. Many other problematic aspects of the game were left in.

In 2020, while staying at home during the pandemic, we began our first online campaign, [[Descent Into Avernus]]. [[Descent Into Avernus]] is another D&D published campaign, and has been played with only minor cosmetic changes. In April of 2021, the first "in-person" [[Descent Into Avernus]] game was held in [[Katy Asher | Katy Asher's]] backyard.

In 2021, we began occasionally playing [[Dungeon of the Mad Mage]] as an online-only game. Like [[Descent Into Avernus]], the [[Dungeon of the Mad Mage]] games follows the published material closely.

==A Brief History of the Sunlight Falls setting==
The Sunlight Falls calendar is based off of the first appearance of the holy light at Sunlight Falls, with year 1 marking the first year anniversary of the appearance of the light. Our D&D games started in [[year 317]], and the current games are set in [[year 324]]. Some of the major events of recent Sunlight Falls history follow:
* [[Year 317]]: Councilwoman [[Elspeth Smith]] kills or drives out her other council members and declares herself the Woman King of Sunlight Falls.
* [[Year 317]]: The town of Powell's Camp is renamed as [[Lents]] in honor of the farmer that saved it from eminent destruction by the nearby Elven community of [[Yllodah]].
* [[Year 318]]: The Woman King [[Elspeth Smith]] makes her first attempt an annexing the town of [[Lents]] as part of [[Sunlight Falls]].
* [[Year 321]]: The Wizard [[Harold Steele]] dies and becomes a [[lich]].
* [[Year 321]]: After becoming a [[lich]], the Wizard [[Harold Steele]] creates a tower underneath his house, displacing a Dwarven waypoint station.
* [[Year 322]]: The dwarves displaced by Wizard [[Harold Steele]] collapse his tower, but his home remains floating above [[Lents]].
* [[Year 322]]: A calamity in the fall or winter of the year happens to the nearby town of [[Cheater's Holler]], leading to the death of most of its populace. The destruction is so thorough that outsiders won't discover the horrors until the next spring.
* [[Year 322]]: The [[Safe Words]], and adventuring group that had started five years prior, formally disbands.
* [[Year 323]]: [[Sunlight Falls]], under the control of Woman King [[Elspeth Smith]] decides to conquer and assimilate all nearby towns. Town guards and adventurers are conscripted, but the effort is proved futile by the encroaching advance of a gnoll army.
* [[Year 323]]: The [[Gnoll Wars]]. [[Gnolls | Gnol]] from East of the [[Dragonsteeth | Dragonsteeth Mountains]] had advanced in the [[Fertile Valley]] far enough to threaten [[Sunlight Falls]]. A group of heroes travelled across the Dragonsteeth and neutralized the threat.

==An Incomplete List of Past and Present Players==
* [[Adam Hungate]]
* [[Alex Hall]]
* [[Angela Muldoon]]
* [[Arianna Jacob]]
* [[Ben Martinez-Bateman]]
* [[Chris Higgins]]
* [[Heather Thompson]]
* [[Jen Rhoads]]
* [[Jess Jennings]]
* [[Jody Jones]]
* [[Katy Asher]]
* [[Kelldicott Ryan]]
* [[Kelly Federson]]
* [[Mack McFarland]]
* [[Michael Loving]]
* [[Nicole Thompson]]
* [[Nik Goll]]

==An Incomplete List of Past and Present Characters==
* [[Cymer]]
* [[Elle Finn]]
* [[Eugenia Trill]]
* [[Gabilan]]
* [[Ider Seracite]]
* [[Karina Bandon]]
* [[Kruz]]
* [[Kwutl]]
* [[Murdina]]
* [[Rocky]]
* [[Samel]]
* [[Shekler Rubyeye]]
* [[Tinga]]
* [[Torq]]
* [[Two-Toed Joad]]
* [[Wilma-Steve]]
* [[Zelrora Yesguinne]]
* [[Zero]]

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