Heh. It's alright. I've decided that it'll make everything easier if Tanith doesn't set his sights on anything or get excited about challenging enemy big guys.
Someday we'll come across a problem that wrestling is the solution to!
Someday we'll come across a problem that wrestling is the solution to!
The master of the Kyuss worms will turn out to be no other than: Evil Hulk Hogan!
Best AP conclusion ever.
Okay, I don't want anyone complaining about RNG for at least the rest of the installment, got it? We're putting up a moratorium.
Working in the video game industry for almost ten years now has taught me that you can never silence the complaints about RNG. Ever.
Embrace it!
I'll do my best...
I have to say, I’m much enjoying the tone and pacing of this book thus far.
I've liked all of this AP so far. Despite it's evilness at parts.
Likewise! :D
By the way, is the handy haversack waterproof? Because that's where I'm storing my stuff for my gun.
I believe so.
That's actually pretty rad.
Next round, I think. I'll give it a shot next round.
Okay, if we'd been fighting an army of these kobolds all adventure instead of lizardfolk, this could have been quite the different AP installment.
Chiefly because we'd still be at the Keep as people repeatedly swing at 22+ ACs.
So this is what it's like to be a monster trying to land a hit on Cuetzpalli?
By the way, for those goodly-minded in the party, I want to say that I would view attempting to sell an intelligent, evil, potentially uncontrollable creature as a rather low neutral act. It's slavery, for one thing, and for another, chromatic dragons are inherently malicious (there's a reason paladins deal double smite damage against them). A black dragon egg hatches into an intelligent, destructive force for evil and mayhem.
I'm not gonna ask for anyone's alignment to change for it, I just want to clarify my views on the matter.
Oh- I was assuming the egg was actually part of the adventure's expected treasure haul.
Ah, we've come a long ways, morally, from the days when beating a dragon down with subdual damage and making it your slave was part of the rules.
Well, as far as a baby dragon being evil & uncontrollable... caveat emptor!
Though, hey, who said anything about slavery? Maybe dragon embryo is a high-demand spell component. I don't judge.
It's not unexpected that parties will take it with them, just not "mandatory". You aren't the first group to have the idea. ;D
I'd argue that the dragon embryo being used as a spell component is worse...
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Or, hey, there's got to be a gourmand somewhere that would pay well for the chance to eat a dragon omelette!
Or if it's the intelligent part that's so bad, you could just break the egg, and animate the unborn dragon as a zombie for a really unique pet that's also a conversation piece!
I'm going to just keep formulating more and more horrible ideas if my ingenuity keeps being challenged. ;-P
Anybody know where Feral's run off to? I figured he'd have something to say about the egg.
I'm around but I'm at a convention I didn't see anything that required my attention.
Tanith likes the idea of nabbing the egg but not necessarily selling it to a collector. We might be able to give it to a non-evil church interested in rearing it.
Like Kord! :D
Kord doesn't have a great relationship with dragonkin.
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I remembered reading that. I'm a moron.
Still, the idea of giving it to a non-evil church sounds good!
I just said that!
I'm sure there's a church of pelor that'll be happy to find the egg a foster home.
I just said that!
Blatant metagaming. You didn't even roll your check!
Anyways, is it settled? You planning on taking this egg back to the Free City?
Assuming the lizardfolk won't have a fear-of-Ilthane induced freak-out over our taking it. We can always try and sell them on the 'just tell her you were murderhoboed' defense.
Yeah, it might be a good idea to ask for permission to take it off their land first.
Might not need to--they may be inclined to let us have it for kicking their chieftain off the throne. Still...
Does anyone else have any ideas about these treasure chests? I could see trapping empty boxes, but untrapped, empty chests makes me feel like I'm missing something.
Otherwise, assuming Astraden's exit is just a tunnel into the swamp, I don't know what else there is to do down here, aside from head up and report in to Hishka and ask about the egg.
Don't worry about the three chests. I looked it up, and it turns out they were a bookkeeping error. The stuff you're looking for is in the watertight chest by the egg.
You mean the chest with the potions in it?
There are two chests of note: The one you guys already looted, and the watertight chest by the egg.
I'll be trying to pop open the watertight chest next.
Let me run this by you guys:
--Tanith and Carina can stick to moving lizardfolk eggs out of the egg carriers' path. Carina doesn't have the arm strength to help carry the egg and as he mentioned, Tanith doesn't trust himself to not move carefully around the eggs.
--Farrukh and Cuetzpalli can carry the egg--they're both strong and at least one of them has ranks in Acrobatics.
--That leaves Eben and Astraden to fill in however they can.
What do you think?
Or how about I just hit it really hard with my axe a few times and we move on? Why are we taking it with us?
Or how about I just hit it really hard with my axe a few times and we move on? Why are we taking it with us?
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We're just moving it out of the way of the lizardfolk eggs so we don't hurt any of them by accident.
I honestly have no idea how you think you would hurt them by accident—we don't have a fumbles system in place, if that's what you're worried about, and I'm not going to spring one on you now. :P
I'm not too worried about the delay this is causing, by the way, because there's not a ton left in this adventure anyways and we finished it pretty "ahead of schedule" (it's been sixteen days). That said, this seems like the sort of discussion that is taking a lot longer than it needs to.
A Recap:
Carina, Cuetzpalli and Tanith want to smash the egg. Cuetzpalli in particular sees allowing it to live as morally unacceptable.
Carina and Tanith want to move it away from the other eggs. I'm guessing Carina just wants to blow it up. Cuetzpalli would rather smash it in the Chamber and have done.
Eben and Farrukh seem interested in selling it.
Astraden doesn't seem to care.
I'd imagined wrecking the dragon egg would be a messy and destructive process. If moving through the lizardfolk eggs requires acrobatics check to avoid slipping and/or damaging them, I figured demoing the dragon egg without causing some harm would be impossible.
We just waiting on strength checks from folks?
The Acrobatics checks are DC 5, and that's only if you're hustling. And you guys were already willing to clear out about 10-20 eggs to make a path.
The dragon eggshell appears to have Hardness 5 and about as many HP, for the record. It'd take one good hit to break open.
I'm not giving out advice one way or the other. Just making sure everything is clear so we can move this along. Either make the damage roll or make the Strength checks.
Oh, that would be beautiful if it did, though.
(Of course, then there would still be the problem of transporting it back through the swamp without the bluffed individuals figuring out...)
If everyone's agreed, Farrukh and Cuetzpalli need to make the strength checks. If not, the issue needs to be discussed. There's no point in both threads just languishing in silence.
I agree.
I agree. Aren't we just waiting on strength checks?
I think so...