Legacy of Old Sharptooth (Inactive)

Game Master T.A.U.

Ops, I forgot the updated Map url:

here it is!

Ryzztyl lashes out with his longspear at the approaching red kobold, but he isn't able to bring it around in time for effect.

AoO: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (6) + 0 = 6

Both enemy kobolds might be dead soon, but we might use one to get all information about their tribe.

In case, I still have action I ready stabilize spell to cast if someone in close range 25ft fall unconscious.
You will roll attack for my slave, as previously. I will take him as my familiar or animal companion if he crits and kills another flyer :)

Sszlax hisses at the red kobold and grins as his attack misses then moves to bring the earthshaker down on him once again.

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22
Damage: 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Blokpug will load and fire a bolt at the Red Kobold.
attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 91d6 ⇒ 2
I am at work and can't remember what the minus is for firing into melee, but I miss regardless.

Blokpug looks down at his crossbow and mutters,"Worthless."

Oozulla, I was tempted to misinterpret your instruction and having the slave decide upon who he must fire his arrow: for him it could be hard to tell who is the 'dragonkin' in the mass of kobolds and wyvarans... since the two wyvaran can fly but Fyrenmar have just now breathed fire! XD

Oozulla orders her slave to shoot, he does so, but the Wyvaran's armor protect her. The black witch also is ready to cast her Stabilize cantrip.

Blokpug fires at the Red Kobold (I assumed the one menacing Ryzztyl, since both of them are currently engaged in melee) but the bold miss

Szzlax's earth breaker instead hit his adversary dealing him 5 damage. The southern red kobold seems very vital, since he is still alive and combative.

End of Round 3

Round 4
Enemy 1:
The first red kobold goes on a defensive stance, but doing so his strike is non so effective against Yighuk.

Group A: Go Yighuk!

Yighuk continues to circle his opponent, ducking a lenitive the kobolds lenitive attack. He then retaliates with his own.

Axe w/ Flank: 1d20 + 4 - 1 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 4 - 1 + 2 = 17
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 2

Tail w/ Flank: 1d20 - 1 + 2 ⇒ (13) - 1 + 2 = 14
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 6

Bite w/ Flank: 1d20 - 1 + 2 ⇒ (7) - 1 + 2 = 8
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 2

Updated Map

Due to his defensive stance the red kobold is able to avoid the flanking multiple attacks from Yighuk.

Enemy 2:
Still frightened the Blue Wyvaran spreads her wings and takes off... flying away northwest, away from Ryzztyl.

updated map

Group B: Ryzztyl & Fyrenmar

"Unless you want to be burned again by a true dragons breath I suggest you stand down little one. You face two powerful casters and your allies are all but dead. We have questions and if you answer them I may see fit to let you live." Fyrenmar directs his considerable will on the red kobold fighting Ryzztyl trying to cow him into submission.

Intimidate: 1d2 + 11 ⇒ (2) + 11 = 13

Thank god the DC is low. This may be enough.

Fyrenmar are you using Intimidate to change the opponent's attitude (requires 1 minute of conversation)? Or are you trying to demoralize it (a standard action)?

Demoralize...and hoping it will stop him from attacking anymore. I did just breath fire at him.

Right, I needed to be sure about it, to formulate the proper answer.

Fyrenmar's words scare the enemy, who is now visibly shaken, but he doesn't drop his weapon.
"No! The dragon will kill mine soul! Even now I can only die for him!"

Sorry. Thought I had posted, but I was also away Friday afternoon (and am not generally online on weekends).

Ryzztyl hisses. "Do not worry then. As the Dragon is in my blood, I shall assist in sending you to Dahak... personally." The blue kobold steps away, his eyes glowing as he mutters an incantation.

5' step
Cause Fear DC 14 Will (fail=frightened for 1d4 ⇒ 4 rounds, otherwise shaken for 1 round).
Not sure if it stacks with the shaken from intimidate, but if so then it's panicked on a fail and frightened on a save

==MAP==

I knew you were usually offline in the weekends, so I waited for you to came back online. About the conditions, they stacks with the shaken from intimidate, what doesn't stacks is a double use of intimidate checks.

Enemy 2: The red kobold who was facing Ryzztyl drops his shortsword and begins to flee panicked. He moves, running away diagonally north-west, at his maximum full speed (and so outside of the map) and doing so he provokes an attack of opportunity from Ryzztyl too.

So Ryzztyl AoO and then

GROUP C: Szzlax, Oozulla, Blokpug and Oozzulla's slave.

updated map without the fleeing kobold Unless Ryz's AoO kills him, in this case I'll updated the map with his corpse later

Ryzztyl lashes out with his spear, but the panicked kobold is too fast for it to connect.

AoO: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (8) + 0 = 8

Oozulla saw her slave was hesitated where to shot and wasn't aiming carefully.

Oozulla was pushing her slave to show his best, confirming he doesn't need to change his target. To bad in this position, her spells were pretty much useless, but she still was holding hands, ready to whisper word of shadow, if someone nearby will fall unconscious.

Slave: attack wyvaran (even if it is out of 100ft of bow increment)
Oozulla: ready stabilize

Oozulla's slave shoots the blue Wyvaran (who is now 135 ft away from him), but due to the distance he badly missed her, while her mistress is ready to cast her Stabilize cantrip.

Blokpug will load another bolt, but hold it and watch for any more enemies.

Ok, so we are waiting for Szzlax's turn. Green Barbarian are you still with us?

Sszlax moves down a bit to keep his clan mate as a distraction to the red kobold. Then swings with his weapon into the red kobold.

Attack: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 4 + 2 = 18 +2 for Flank
Damage: 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

Sorry for the delay still getting back into the habbit of checking the boards regularly :P

The remaining red kobold is knocked unconscious by Szzlax earthbraker smash.

END OF COMBAT

Yighuk scans the area after Szzlax sends the foe between them to the ground. Seeing no further resistance he kneels down to search the red kobold and then moves on to the fallen flyer.

"Well done. We have proven the Sootscale greater than both the warm bloods and this weak tribe. Let us search the bodies and return in triumph to our warrens."

The red-scaled kobold looks disgustedly at one of the dead wyvarans. He then continues over to Yighuk and takes stock of the area. No. We will not return until things have been fully investigated. These humans trouble me. They are far too bold and will have to pay for that. One of them," he says nodding to one of the dead kobolds, "said they killed the group we ourselves were waiting to ambush. We need to find them. See if we can learn more. Then we can head back."

Cast stabilize to keep other kobolds alive for interogation.

Oozulla carefully descended from the tree. She did some magic sending shadows around and then nodded approvingly to Fyrenmar words:
"I think you are right. They came here to fight humans. If they will know, that other kobolds live nearby - our tribe might be in danger. We need to chase vywarian and kill the rest of their tribe. Otherwise, chief will punish us for leaving living witnesses.

She noded to dead wyvarian and said: "My toy proved to be useful. I'd like to keep him alive for dirty work. As well, he might be a nice help, if we need to investigate other humans camp. Don't kill him, unless he makes something wrong."

"I tried to save some of foreigners with touch of shadow. Check, if some of them is alive. We may question them later"

If someone requires healing touch, please speak up, Oozulla is ready to use that.

On the battleground you can easily recover the 2 light crossbows and the 2 short swords the red kobolds previously used and dropped.

On the stabilized, but yet unconscious, body of the red kobold who faced Yighuk and Szzlax you found a potion, his studded leather armor and 17 bolts.

On the dead red wyvaran you found a scale mail (medium sized), 2 scrolls and what should be an unholy symbol of some god.(need a proper Kn Religion check)

Yighuk bristles as the direct contradiction but considers his companions words. "I too would know the location of this other warren but we will never be able to catch the wyvaran and our first duty is to return our young to the tribe." Noting Oozulla stabilizing the remaining red kobold he says, "We take this one and the humans back. He will tell us what we need to know."

"I am not referring to this weak clan fools," he says waving his hand at the unconscious kobold. "They couldn't even win with a stealth and flying advantage. They are barely worth notice. I am referring to the humans they said they ambushed. One of them was the leader of these egg thieves. We find them and search them. Then we may head back. We will need more than the 6 of us to take on another clan."

Szzlax shrugs "Other biggies dead, no need to smash. We go home and eat. Unless others have food too. Then we should go find."

"These" Yighuk indicates the foreign kobalds with a wave of his hand, "have do doubt already looted the humans they killed and we have no knowledge of how far away they may have ambushed them or how many of their tribe might be there. As for the humans we know where their fort is. Let us get our eggs to safety and then we can strike against them." Yighuk will retrieve the eggs while the group talks.

"They attacked when we expected the humans to arrive, they can't be far away. You may head back to the warren but myself and Szzlax will find the humans. It maybe that the clan lied, weak as they were."

K:Religion on Unholy Symbol: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19

Spellcraft on Scroll 1: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24
Spellcraft on Scroll 2: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

After giving the arcane members of the party a chance to consider what their foes had been carrying Yighuk speaks up, "True they arrived when we expected the humans but that could mean they killed them at their warren and tracked them back or caught up with them only a half mile from here. We have no way of knowing. What we do know however is that the sun is high in the sky and one of the Wyvaran have escaped. It will outpace us and may bring more of it's tribe. We need to report to the Chief, get our eggs to safety and cover our trail as best we can."

"As little as I care for our Chief, I do care for the tribe. Another tribe in some nearby unknown location, allied with wyvarns, while many of our forces are away scouting or hunting down these eggs... which also represent the future of our tribe."

"We must get back to protect these eggs and to prepare our tribe for potential rivals beyond the petty humans. Humans whose lair we have already located."

"At best we could also send word to our recent tatzlwyrm ally for further assistance, if she is not still near our lair."

Sszlax shrugs "Don't care which, let's just go. I'm hungry."

"Then go. We will spend no more than a half a day and then follow."

Plan to leave with Szzlax for a half day and see if we can't track them to the sight of the scuffle. Look for clues then head home. If we don't find them, head home anyway.

"Before you depart, might be one of you would like to interrogate that one" Oozulla pointed at red kobold. "I can share a shadow of inner dragon and heal his wounds, but you need to secure him first. He might say how many wyvarians are in their tribe, how many warriors they might send back and other useful stuff".

Oozulla doesn't need to be mediator in this interrogator, but she is ready to assist

"Fyrenmar you have been long from the tribe but you are part of it none the less. Do not forget that it is the tribe that is our strength. We should see to our task in full strength and not splinter off like these foolish warm bloods."

Turning to Oozulla, "This is good. The red will no doubt be able to tell us much. Let's bind him and get him back on his feet. He can answer questions and then serve the Sootscale with these humans."

"We should not dwell here long though. We don't know how long it will be before the other clan or the humans might learn of what happened here. The sooner we reach our own hold the better."

"You'll excuse the Outcast for not thinking of the tribe first." he retorts. "I am only part of it out of convenience for the chief. Soon as my job is done I will be back to the outskirts within the hour. I will go alone if I must. I still have fear and fire as my weapons." He turns to leave in the direction the enemy came and ignores any protests.

This is probably stupid since he has no survival skills. I am just hoping Szzlax comes along or I am probably screwed.

Ah, the pride of a kobold... the pride of a dragon!

"You are of the tribe by blood and birth. Even in your exile you were of the tribe. Do you think the Chief found you by luck? That your name appeared in his mind from the Abyss? Do you think he is unaware of those who cared for you? No, the tribe knows it's own! You proved the bond yourself when, despite your pride, you returned when called. Our duty is clear here, our young need our protection and the tribe needs to know what we have found. Once these are done then we can plan the demise of our foes."

"Fyrenmar, I think chief understands, that he need to reunite the tribe in light of upcoming events: first, war with mites, than, egg stealers, now, we have other tribe nearby. Even, if chief doesn't know about last one, we need to inform him. He will appreciate that. Don't you understand, how much responsibility he took, by returning us back and assigning to real mission? Remember, your fear will be useless against wyvarians and your fire won't hurt them, when they fly over your head and shoot you with their mighty bows. Fyrenmar, I need you to help us to interrogate prisoner."

Witch felt herself bad, screaming to the back of kobold, leaving in the woods, but she was trying to reason with him. Only one argument left: "Now it isn't tribe, it's you who are walking away! Are you willing to be outcast forever? Or you are ready to earn your title in the tribe?"

She understood his feeling: he knew the way, but no one was there for him to help him and follow. Several years ago, witch was subject of mockery. Some of her tribemates, were throwing stones, because of her error, and she left, because she had no power to fight. Now, Oozulla tried to keep Fyrenmar from leaving. She didn't want years of exile for him, while he recognises mistake he made leaving.

After her last argument, Oozulla went to red kobold, tied some ropes to keep him helpless and spend a moment to concentrate on her internal power. Than she moved her hand, making her shadow touch his scales and waited for him to regain consciousness.

HEX: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Witch felt herself bad, screaming to the back of kobold, leaving in the woods, but she was trying to reason with him. Only one argument left: "Now it isn't tribe, it's you who are walking away! Are you willing to be outcast forever? Or you are ready to earn your title in the tribe?"

The fire, red kobold turns and for a moment you think he might just stop. Instead he smiles a sinister smile. "My dear Oozulla I intend to earn much more." He then turns back to the forest and continues, with or without Szzlax.

I want to head in the direction the Wyvarans came and try and find the battleground between them and the humans. I figure since they arrived at the time we expected the humans means they are not far off. I'll spend a few hours doing this then head back to camp. If the others are not there I will head for the Sootscale tribe.

Szzlax shrugs after all the debating and heads after Fyrenmar only commenting "Maybe more smashing for Szzlax!"

So, Fyrenmarn and Szzlax leave the human camp going toward West into the forest.
Can you make me a Survival check please.

Meanwhile the rest of the team...
What are you going to do?

Yighuk shakes his head at Fyrenmars stubbornness. Stepping to Szzlax he says, "Do not take unnecessary risks, return home by dawn and try and keep that one alive if you can. I'll see your belly is filled when you return safely."

With that he works with the others to bind the prisoners for a march and sets out for home.

"Blokpug, take the lead."

Survival: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (5) + 0 = 5

Fyrenmar is of no help.

Can I speak with red kobold from enemy tribe before we depart, if he is conscious now? Might be, his words will change the Yighuk intend to depart back.

Ops, I only thought about writing the part about the kobold kobold being back to consciousness. Yes, you are free to do whatever you like with him, since he is tied, including speaking with him.

Yighuk wouldn't have any issue with that either.

Here you can post your OOC discussions concerning the shared universe of this campaign (both teams)

While still waiting for all of you to report your backgrounds and descriptions on the Gameplay thread, here is mine idea about the 2 teams composition.

Since calling Team A and Team B or Team 1 and 2, would have implied the first being more important than the second, I had a hard time on deciding 2 provisional names for your teams.

So, let me present all of you mine own idea about how Chief Sootscale splitted you in 2 teams and sent you to specific mission.

Team River:
Yighuk, Blokpug, Ryzztyl, Isk and Kirtyl
please report here

Team Eggs:
Yolp, Szzlax, Oozulla, Yik Klik and Fyrenmar
please report here

Wishing an Happy Game to all of us, let the campaign begin!

Go Team Eggsssss!!!

One thing for all the PCs, can you list your character's Age, and also the PC's Birthday?
Since during the future "kingdom" phase we can play entire years in IC time, that could impact on your PC's ability (becoming Middle-aged, Old and maybe even Venerable)

Szzlax is 13 (not sure of the actual year this is taking place but lets say his birthday is Kuthona 8th, 13 years from the current year)

The campaign began in the month of Pharast, and the current year is the 4710.

So Szzlax was born on the 8th of Kuthona of the 4696, and he will be 14 in the next Kuthona month.

Blokpug's birthdate is Kuthona 6, 4692. He will be 18 next Kuthona month.

Yighuk was born on in the heat and humidity of Arodus 27th, 4696 and is about to turn 14.

Isk was born on the first day of winter, Kuthona 1st. He is currently 17 years old.

Oozulla was born on 3rd night of Lamashan, 4693

I'll have to get back to you with that on saturday. Currently on vacation so posts are going to be a little short and uninspired.

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No problem Fyrenmar. I've noticed that the posting rhythm is slowing in both the teams, but that's normal during summer vacations. I'm currently on vacation too.

Hi Everybody,

everything is going back to normal, or at least most of it.
Mine laptop is irreparable but I hope to get a new one and be fully back online in the next weeks.
Then we will be able to resume our campaign.

GM Tau

Hello Sootscale heroes,
finally your GM is fully back online with a brand new laptop!

So, everyone who is still interested in playing this campaign can show his/her interest here.

GM Tau

Hooray!

Welcome back!
Cannot wait to return to our adventures!

Welcome back!

Ready and willing! Welcome back.

Great! 3 players/PCs ready and willing to continue.
Thank you all for showing interest again in this game.
But since mine absence was for a long period of time, I'll wait the next 48 hours, to see if anyone else is still interested in playing it.

The game stopped when a part of Team Eggs was hiding and waiting for reinforcements coming from the Lair, meanwhile Team River and the rest of Team Eggs was been summoned by Chief Sootscale. That's a luckily a good point to restart.

Guess I'm in. Read through some of the kingmaker rules and am excited to continue. Be a lot easier than starting or finding a Kingmaker game of my own.

Good to have our "ardent" oracle back!
About the kingmaker rules, we will use the Ultimate Campaign version, with some add-on from Ultimate Rulership.
I'll provide you the material at the proper time.

Also Szlaax's player, the green barbarian, send me a PM saying that he is still interested in the campaign, but will not be able to be back for now.
Since he's still on the scene with Oozulla and Fyrenmar, I'll bot him if needed but with restricted social interaction, and he will "disappear" with an excuse as soon as the others active PC will meet the 3 kobolds of Team Eggs.

Do we (Team River) stick to our own thread for now, or should we be dotting this gameplay thread so you can shut down the other?

It depends of how many others players will be back in the game, if we are going to stay with only the actual 4 (plus 1) then I'll say that we should play having Yighuk and Ryzztyl going to meet Oozulla and Fyrenmar (and Szlaax), and make a unique new team of 4/5 PCs, playing in this unique gameplay thread.
Instead if a lot of people will show up in the next hours, then we can resume playing in the separated gameplay threads.

Alright, the 48 hours had expired, and it's time to restart the campaign!

For all the other former players who should read this massage, if you are still interested in continuing the campaign, PM me and I shall see a way to have your PC back into the story too.

For the active players, as I wrote, we will use an unique gameplay thread. I'm marking as inactive the other 2 teams campaign.

The new unique party, who hopefully is going to be soon together also IC, is now formed by (alphabetical order):
- Fyrenmar, Red male, LE Oracle of Flames
- Oozulla, Black female, LN Witch
- Ryzztyl, Blue male, LE Sorcerer (Crossblooded)
- Szzlax, Green male, NE Barbarian [in pause]
- Yighuk, Black male, LE Fighter

I will be travelling between today and November, 1st. Some delays might be in my posts via phone and I wont have much time to check boards often. Excuse me and feel free to bot me if I'm blocking story flow.

Have a nice journey! I'll try to keep Oozulla safe :-D

And we have another former player coming back to the game. This time it's Blokpug!

Enjoy the new 6 PCs team!

Sounds like finding a place to set traps and using light or dancing lights to draw the attention of a few would be the best option. Do we want someone watching the camp or have everyone set for the ambush?

Let's leave 3 guys to sleep and then we can start doing. Oozulla is not a trapper, Sszlax is autopiloted, others need rest or they will be unable to act during night combat. I'd prefer to skip time till sunset.

Well yes, obviously. DM said we meet in the morning so we wait till sun down. That gives everyone time to rest.

I'm waiting for Blokpug to reply about the battle-plan, since he is the trapper.
Anyway if nobody wants to roleplay anything else, the game can go directly to the sunset time, since everybody got plenty of time to sleep/rest and nothing came in the direction of your camp (no random encounter).

I'll likely be offline until Wednesday (Nov 12th).

Ryz has his Cause Fear spell and his typical Jolt spell (as well as a longspear to fall back on) once combat starts.

Hey GM. Can you make an executive decision here and move us along? I think we are stuck because no one is brave enough to move people.

I think we were holding on Ryz since we hadn't kicked off the ambush and the thought was he'd be back shortly.

Yes, I was waiting for Ryzztyl to come back online. Now we can play.

I have to say that I really like how you, players, are very "koboldish" in planing an ambush into a favorable terrain, were other parties would have instead done an assault directly to the enemy camp. I've rewarded this behavior with some extra XP in mine count as if you have defeated a CR 1 encounter! :)
You are still not at level 2, but you are on a good way to it.

Just thought I'd mention that it's great having this campaign up and running again. I really like the unique kobold angle as well as the chance to go through Kingmaker.

Just thought I'd mention that it's great having this campaign up and running again. I really like the unique kobold angle as well as the chance to go through Kingmaker.

I'm glad you like. I have a lots of ideas for the future of the campaign.

Do you know how long until Szzlax and Ryzztyl can rejoin us? If or when they do, can you just keep rolling for Szzlax? He is doing a bang up job so far.

About Ryzztyl I hope he will be back soon.
About Szlaax, he said he could probably be back online at the end of this month / the beginning of December.

About the rolls, I'll say it's all the luck that the poor Yighuk is missing.

Since from the recruitment you knew that we will be also using Mythic tiers in this campaign.

Probably you already planned what Path your PC will take. But if you want to discuss it between you, to see if there is something the party could need or coordinate... well, this could be the proper time.

Though I'm still kicking things around my plan at the moment for Yighuk is to pursue the Champion path. As an overall scheme he'll be looking to maximize attacks using the TWF line and his natural attacks. This should be helped by the mobility options that the Champion path provides (Impossible Speed, Fleet Warrior and Fleet Charge).

Additionally in keeping with the Kingmaker theme he'll be picking up Leadership at 7th and Crusader shortly after.

That's the thought at the moment anyway.

I haven't used the Mythic rules yet so I'm interested to see how they'll play out.

At first I thought Hierophant might be the one for my but Marshal has some really nice party buffs. One of my favorite abilities that I saw gives everyone within 30ft of a me a full round action rather than a single move or standard.

Not many choices for Oozulla. She will follow Archmage path, taking item creation powers and hex advancement features. She will be advancing more as party support. I think Mythic Hexes and Abudant Powers are worth taking.

In a kingdom, I was thinking taking Grand Diplomat, Magister or Treasurer role. Those will benefit from her high Intelligence bonus, as well are much in character for her to fill (Except might be Treasurer, but she is OK with this role as well)

About the mythic paths: I'm currently GMing some campaigns were the players took the "non-classical" path for their classes (a Summoner Trickster, a Cleric Marshal, a Sorcerer Guardian(!) ), some could be non-optimal but mine players are having a lot fun with them.
It really depends on your idea of "how to be a legendary hero", or in your case "how to be legendary kobold".

About kingdom-building, well having a party of 6 PCs should help filling half of the kingdom roles easily. I'll look forward to see what you will decide about that part of the campaign, but unless you decide to go back and "conquer" your own tribe by killing the actual ruling class, it's still to early to start planning it properly.

I could certainly see that. I've looked at both Guardian and Marshal as possible paths for Yighuk and they both have their point of appeal (even the Trickster path has some nice options). It's certainly not an easy decision.

By the way this part really made me laugh :

She asks someone more strong to tie female and then she gives her several slaps.

Heal: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17

I picture this little kobold standing over the woman trying to slap her awake.

"Oozulla what are you doing?"

"I'm healing her...isn't it obvious?"

Brings to mind the scene from Airplane :)

I think my illness has more or less fled, so I should be able to post a little more regularly (although I am not online on weekends anyhow). I'll look through the current crop of messages and then post soon.

As for mythic path... I might end up dual-pathing it (possibly Archmage and something else) since I'll eventually be going into Dragon Disciple prestige class.

Welcome back Ryzztyl!

Indeed, glad you're feeling better.

Just in case any of fellow kobolds is learning Common, I use and plan to use Common-Draconic translator. I just put my English as Common. If you have objections against big spoilers, please say, and I stop.

Ryzztyl, welcome back, glad to hear you are recovering.

That page is pretty cool, nice find.