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My players will be storming the trogs this week, in their way to Golismorga. I know the trogs have a jar of green slime to throw, and their spells will have almost ni chance against my players, so I am looking for simple, troggie dirty tricks.
I think one will throw green slime while another throws a jar of brown mould. Any fire used to born off the slime will cause a mold bloom :-)
Any more like that?
Pet rust monsters, herded along a tunnel by greatclub weilding trogs is always a good time.
Advanced Dreadnaught Rust Monsters ? ^_^
Ack-shully, Big T, after the heavy firepower of the last few sessions I'd rather challenge them with low CR and sneakiness. Now, I know you can do sneaky :-)
Ethereal rust monsters off the top of my head. If there is a way to "oozify" one, I'd glomp that on there too ... with a modest INT score, some nasty feats can come into play ... ^_^
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Oooo, that is sneaky! :-)
Though how would stone-age Trogs herd such a beast? A jar of fungus or ooze, on the other hand, that I can justify.
The PC's are way higher level than the start of this adventure requires, so I want to let them feel heroic for a while. They save against every Trog spell, they kill them with one blow, but the Trogs are mean and smart. They throw their Green Slime, they have Rust Monsters penned up behind quick-release wooden fences and so on.
Oooo, that is sneaky! :-)
Though how would stone-age Trogs herd such a beast? A jar of fungus or ooze, on the other hand, that I can justify.
The PC's are way higher level than the start of this adventure requires, so I want to let them feel heroic for a while. They save against every Trog spell, they kill them with one blow, but the Trogs are mean and smart. They throw their Green Slime, they have Rust Monsters penned up behind quick-release wooden fences and so on.
Monsters are a combination of pets and "spirits" that the trogs worship. The critters get ... something ... from the adulation and hang around. Trogs some times uncover metal deposits that the critters chow on - let us say that the adulation helps sustain the critters when metals do not. Since the trogs have been there for centuries it would seem ... so have the immortal rust monsters. Another potential source of information lies not with the trogs - but with the monsters themselves...
So, ethereal immortal rust monsters. When the trogs sound / chant / croak appropriately, the critters emerge from the very stones amidst a cacophony of clicks and gibberings...
Yes!
That's how they defend the village! I love it!
Do you have the Book of Templates? ^_^
At the moment I am working on TLD too and I like the rust monster idea. Perhaps I will borrow it as well. The first rust monster in BWG was an enormous success. One of my PC fighters stubbornly kept trying to hit it with metal objects, and lost not only all her weapons, but also all her armor. It would be nice to see her reaction to another rust monster...
Yes, on pdf - I'll have to get a hardcopy so I properly look through it!
What are you thinking of? ;-)
That is where the Ethereal and Immortal templates are located. Tack on metallivore perhaps - although that is probably rather redundant, that template may hide some useful insights or tweaks to add.
Thought of another...
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*puffs a rather rank stogey* excelleeeenntt ...
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LOL - Glad you like it, your hairyness!
I can't resist, I have to avoid giving the party an easy time of it. Do you think this is reasonable?
There are 4 Trog Leper cleric 3/rogue 1 mooks. I'll make them Cleric 5 and use a few nice 3rd level BoVD spells - Wrack, Fleshripper etc. One can also do an Animate Dead on the dead Dimetrodon :-) The nice thing about being a level higher is more cash for stuff. So I can give the animate dead dude a one-shot dimension door to the corpse or something.
Since it's a party of 5 12th level PCs, I need a few more mooks - I'm thinking Trog Ninjas! Just three or four, but instead of Ghost Step, I'll let them spend a ki point to earthglide for a move action. Crusty Trog lepers melting into the ground, rising up behind you and sudden strike-ing you from behind! With their Trog camouflage they should have a Hide of about +25 too :-) Yuck!
Is that a reasonable replacement for Ghost Step, do you think? It messes up the arcane sight of the wizard nicely too, since it's blocked by rock!
So it's only EL9 or so, but with green slime, beads of force and earthgliding ninjas it should be a memorable combat :-)
LOL - Glad you like it, your hairyness!
I can't resist, I have to avoid giving the party an easy time of it. Do you think this is reasonable?
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Weird thing is - I discovered that Earth Glide is an 8th level spell in an old FR book - slightly tougher than invisibility! Then you have the PF spell Elemental Body I - that also gives Earth Glide, and that's 4th level. It lasts 1 min/level and this ability lasts one move action - seems reasonable. (Of course, I'm biased!)
Looking forward to it immensely!
Can't wait!