Fully titled Wyrmwick: The Past Years, the PreWick campaign is an Actual Play prequel to another Dungeons & Dragons campaign by LordKaT, the Wyrmwick Campaign. It is set in what will become the kingdom of Wyrmwick, several hundred years before the events of the first campaign, and boasts an entirely new cast of characters plus a few familiar faces.
Former Wyrmwick party members SonicGav, Y Ruler of Time, RolloT and ArcLight return, and are joined by tabletop gaming veteran MechaGM and livestream regular Sable.
The cast and Player Party consists of:
- LordKaT as the Dungeon Master
- MechaGM as Caeranne Bladewalker, an Eladrin Swordmage
- SonicGav as Drycha, a Wood Elf Seeker/Ranger
- ArcLight as Elexis Moreau, a Genasi Warlord
- Sable as Fardraig Culhwch, a Human Fighter
- Y Ruler of Time as Han Niudao, a Human Monk
- RolloT as Vega Cruz, a Half-Elf Warpriest
LordKat had to end the campaign prematurely due to Real Life stressnote and scheduling conflicts, and the previous sessions and the campaign wiki went offline by 2015. An Internet Archive backup of the wiki can be found here
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PreWick Campaign provides examples of:
- Anachronism Stew: When Vega prays to Selune for instruction, she is answered by a receptionist from "the Law Offices of Selune, Selune & Selune"; when she prays for the party to be transported away from danger, she gets "Selune, Selune & Selune Cab Service".
- Bad Future: Ten years or so in the future, Bomar is the Mayor of Wyrmwick and the kingdom is engaged in an unending war against the Taint's army — which Han is now leading. Fortunately, it was only a vision. But the party is now desperately trying to prevent it from coming to pass.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Mage Firenipple. He's an eccentric old man with a funny name and a goofy verbal tick... who slipped unconscious Han a gender bending potion, with the intention of making Female Han his wife. Did we mention the potion also contained a mind-altering ingredient to make the recipient more subservient?
- Brutal Honesty: Nearly everything out of Fardraig's mouth. The wiki describes him as "blunt as a craghammer (and just as deadly)".
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Firenipple apparently thinks so: he gave Female Han D-cup breasts. (Jason said he had to resist the urge to make them Double Ds.)
- Death by Origin Story:
- The Druidic community where Drycha was raised (which had formerly been home to all manner of forest-dwelling creatures) was wiped out by goblin raiders.
- Fardraig's family were killed by a band of adventurers when he was a child.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: Bomar. The party becomes this after they are transported thirty years into the future in a holy vision.
- Gender Bender: Han, thanks to a lovelorn Mage Firenipple. The transformation began as a slow, gradual process that caused Han to acquire soft skin and large breasts while he still had his male reproductive organs; however, this led to a great deal of
Squick and rude humor from the livestream community, irritating Y Ruler of Time and causing LordKaT to re-write the arc so that Han woke up fully female at the start of the next session.
- Heroic Bluescreen Of Death: Han very nearly has one after he witnesses the possible future of Wyrmwick and learns of the Taint's plans for him.
- Last of Her Kind: Drycha. Her entire community was slaughtered by Goblin raiders.
- Lethal Chef: Bomar. Live mouse bread. He also tries to make rock bread after running out of his normal ingredients ("It didn't bake well"), grass bread, and contemplates making gunpower bread.
- Let Us Never Speak of This Again: After Firenipple used his gender bending magic on Han, Vega (the only one present at the time) had to "inspect" him to see how thoroughly the spell had taken effect. Being a fairly sheltered young woman, Vega was so embarrassed and Squicked out by the whole thing that she prefers to pretend it never happened.
- Running Gag:
- Vega's habit of asking for the name of anything and everything the party encounters. It drives LordKat crazy.
- "Selune, Selune & Selune" (all of whom have Brooklyn accents).
- Stable Time Loop: Bomar travels into the past and ends up in the yet-unnamed land that will become Wyrmwick, inadvertently giving the kingdom its name by referring to it as such.
- Shout-Out: To The Iron Giant: "Iron giants? Are they voiced by Vin Diesel?" / "Yes."
