Our end-of-year recognition, the Golden Goblet Awards, were held on Friday, June 19 as part of our last meeting of the Toastmasters year. Overall, we held a total of 39 weekly meetings and 23 game nights. Members gave a total of 90 speeches and created 18 characters for the Warrens of the Harengon tabletop roleplaying game campaign.

Congratulations to the following members upon recognition of their spectacular achievements last year:

Welcome to the Dragon Coast

In the Forgotten Realms there is a small geographical area known as the Dragon Coast. It exists on the southern shores of the Dragonmere (also known as the Lake of Dragons) which runs into the Sea of Fallen Stars to the east. From the west, the Tun River flows into Dragonmere through a small, wetlands area and a large mountain range protects the region from the south. The Dragon Coast has long been known for its lack of central government and to outsiders, functions as a small collection of city-states and pirate holds. Power has never been focused in one group but rather ebbs and flows between the different thieves’ guilds, pirate bands, and secret societies that work in the shadows of the region.

There was a time, many generations ago, that this area was the center of power and nobility. Over the centuries, it has devolved into a culture of “everyone has a price.” No one knows when it began, but everyone understands that this is the reality of the Dragon Coast.

Forever Winter

For the last five decades, the seas have gotten colder, darker, and more wild, increasingly limiting trade to the region. The tops of the Giant’s Run Mountains have been covered with snow and the mines in the Gulthmere Forest have gotten colder as the years have gone by, making it nearly impossible to access the resources within. Even the edges of the “Lake of Dragons”, have begun to freeze at their narrowest point between Westgate and Urmlaspyr, forcing the towns on the western edge of Dragonmere to discontinue all travel by sea indefinitely.

No one knows what’s wrong on the Dragon Coast. But if it is not solved, the fallout will be felt by all life in the Forgotten Realms.

Greetings adventurers and prepare to celebrate your fellow man this evening at Dungeons & Toast’s first Golden Goblets!

Tonight we will celebrate our members, look back on the year past, all while receiving XP for next year’s campaign. Remember all XP is doubled for this meeting and any XP earned this meeting carries over into next year’s campaign.

Some ways you can earn XP are:
Dressing up for our Golden Carpet event
Participating in Table Topics
Providing a recipe on our Discord in the Finale Recipes channel
Filling a role
Attending the meeting is quintupled
Along with cooking 3 recipes earning you 15 XP points

Having an on theme background provided by us via the link down below

We hope to see everyone dressed in their finest clothing, and come to have a night of fun and celebration!

Gather around all adventurers! For tonight we must work together to avoid being cursed for the rest of our days (Or you can get cursed if you want we dont judge). Tonight’s meeting is being run by David Easley as our Toastmaster and Cliff C. as Table Topics Master. Join us tonight for a spooky fun time!

The last meeting of the year is rushing towards us at an alarming speed! If anyone remembers last year, we had a wonderful medley of D&D themed recipes available to earn extra XP for the new campaign.

This year, we are doing the same! But instead of one person providing the recipes, you can earn your XP by submitting your own recipes for the finale. Here are the rules:

• Recipe Submission: 15 XP
• Make a dish during the finale: 5 XP per dish (Max 3)
• Total XP Available for next year’s campaign: 30 XP

To post your recipes you can:

1 – Post the recipe in the #finale-recipes channel on Discord: https://discord.gg/k38qyxwX
2 – Email to Andrew.Brewer@gmail.com
3 – Message me @skiptomybrew in Discord

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS WILL BE JUNE 18 TO GIVE FOLKS TIME TO DO SOME GROCERY SHOPPING!

I hope lots of people participate in sharing fun food, cocktail, and mocktail recipe ideas with the group. Bonus good vibes if your recipe is character themed!

Tonight marks the penultimate meeting in this year’s annual VTTRPG campaign, the Warrens of Harengon, in which member characters venture through the portal left behind after the death of Mayor Fluffy Bunny to search for the phylactery of necromancer Lucifera. To help create a cohesive theme, here are a selection of virtual backgrounds from which you might choose:

Hello fellow guild members!

My greatest apologies for the delay but as many of you know, we held our guild officer elections at the beginning of the month. It is my great honor to introduce the guild leadership for the 2024-2025 Toastmasters year:

Guild Master (President): Greg Stockton

Quest Master (VP of Education) Andrew Brewer

Recruitment Master (VP of Membership): Cameron Pedersen

Master Bard (VP of Public Relations): Kait Watson

Master Scribe (Secretary): Kenneth Bradshaw

Master of Coin (Treasurer) Kelly Sclafani

Sergeant at Arms: Mindy Begenat

Thank you to all the members who ran for positions of leadership and thank you to those of you who will be serving as club officers next year. And finally, thank you to our current officers for such a great 2023-2024 Toastmasters year!

Welcome toastmasters to Dungeons & Toast,
And oh how our members do boast,
Their backgrounds are fun,
Declared second to none,
By members from coast to coast.

Welcome, fellow adventurers, to a realm where the power of speech meets the magic of storytelling. In our ongoing quest to master the art of public speaking, we draw inspiration from the rich tapestry of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), where diversity flourishes among its playable species. Today, we embark on a thrilling journey to encounter and embody the perspectives of various D&D races, unlocking new dimensions of communication and empathy along the way.