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I’ll try to get back when I can.
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I’ve had something unexpected come up; I’m going to be offline for a while entirely not sure how long. I’ll try to get back when I can.
I’ve had something unexpected come up; I’m going to be offline for a while entirely not sure how long. I’ll try to get back when I can.
I’ve had something unexpected come up; I’m going to be offline for a while entirely not sure how long. I’ll try to get back when I can.
I’ve had something unexpected come up; I’m going to be offline for a while entirely not sure how long. I’ll try to get back when I can.
As you gather, you know that your best chance may be delaying them at the Turnbottom Ditch. You can easily go down into the ditch and back up, but its a bit time consuming to do so-- the Turnbottom bridge is much quicker, so perhaps you can hold them off there. . . Or perhaps you could take to Sir Kenneth Alintar, the Fifth Earl of Hathington, Brigadier General of the West Kingdom and have the Westies do it.
Tawny mauls another giant, dropping it! The hail of Archon and arrows takes out another 6 giants, leaving them scattered across the field. Thurgrom's ax drops both the giants he was fighting with deep cuts! Kragg hits, but is unable to finish the (no dark aqua) giant Trm heals Thurgom. Gage moves forward. Dvalin hits the (now dark purple) giant! Only two giants (the ones in melee) can attack:
At Dvalin:
As you watch, a semi opaque globe goes up surrounding the hilltop where the hill giant chief waits. . . Initiative:
Status:
Tawny: 63/84
Giant Kill Counter: 33
So, you guys have stumbled through back ways into several of the "boss" encounters with VERY LITTLE of the overall castle explored- I don't know if its just been blind luck or what.
No, he appears quite dead. Searching his body:
In addition, the onicarries a small leather pouch at his side containing several vials of ink, five shiny pearls worth 100 gp each, and a darkwood-and-silver disc decorated with an intricate etching of Brinewall under the noonday sun. This disc radiates faint transmutation magic. Spellcraft DC 22:
his +1 kusarigama makes a shrill whistling sound whenever it is used in combat. Once per day as a standard action, the wielder of Dancing Wasp can whirl the weapon above his head as a full-round action to summon a giant wasp. The wasp appears in the air above the wielder’s head and follows the wielder’s mental commands to the best of its ability as long as the user continues to whirl (requiring a standard action each round) to a maximum of 5 rounds.
Fiata misses! She tries to touch Kenji:
Turn Order:
Sage of Plagues: -19 Kenji: pending save vs. 2 wis damage
Round 2
Both Penthesliea's special arrows narrowly miss. Keji hits! this time, Skai's thundercloud collides with the allip, but even her spell does half damage vs. the bodyless creature. Turn Order:
Sage of Plagues: -19
Between the two blades strikes the corny is finished off, leaving you in a bow empty throne chamber.
Troy misses as Lief chases after him.
Dvalin shifts form and moves forward. Kragg's first strike finishes the giant he was fighting. With two strikes, Thurgrom cuts down another wounded hill giant. Gage and a hail of arrows empty out at the south giant:
Some giants move forward clumsily in the dark to attack Thurgrom, while those outside begin forming a defensive perimeter around the hill where the Hill giant chief must wait. . . At Thurgrom
At Tawny:
Two hits on Thurgrom! Initiative:
Status:
Tawny: 63/84
Giant Kill Counter: 25
This boss cannot apparently hit!
Round 1
Kenji is briefly fascinated, but then Penthesilea snaps everyone out of it with her song. Kenji hits critically with his second swing and destroys the golem in a single strike! but the Sage dodges out of the way! The sage tries again to touch Penthesilea
Round 2
Turn Order:
Sage of Plagues: -4 Dario:
As Malik gathers information, the word about town is that the East army camped outside town is getting ready to march- something changed recently, and now it looks like they will be heading home . . . But the next morning, shouts are head almost with the crows of the cocks- the Army isn't marching home, they are attacking! It looks like today will be the day of the Battle of Burrowdar.
Gareau, Kolaach, and Volk all miss. Yuki aids. Lief chops down the last guard, leaving only the sergeant, and Troy moves forward. The sergeant flees! (withdraws) Turn order:
Status:
Emili trips the Corby who tries desperately to get up.
Round 1
The carrion golem moves forward and swings at Fiata:
As the Allip begins to move, its babbling affects everyone! The Allip moves forward, and touching Penthesilea Bestows a Curse on her!
Turn Order:
Fiata knows this is an Allip and knows one fact about Allips. She also recognizes the carrion golems from earlier and remembers one fact about them.
Thanks! Sorry I didn’t say anything sooner- sometimes it drops games in weird ways like that.
The archons unload at a giant, and Rubius first shot after their barrage finishes it. Two arrows each into the next two giants finishes them each in turn.
Tawny avoids an attack and takes down another giant. With three strikes, Thurgrom takes down both of the wounded hill giants! With three arrows, Gage finishes the target he had been attacking! Kragg hits, but that giant remains on its feet. Dvalin swings, missing once, but then chopping his foe down! Most of the giants waver and wait at the edge of the darkness, but the one lashes out at Kragg:
While another charges Tawny:
but all miss!
Initiative:
Status:
Tawny: 63/84
Giant Kill Counter: 24
I'm traveling this weekend; I'll get the next part kicked off Sunday night or Monday.
I'm traveling this weekend, probably will not update till Sunday late afternoon.
Rin hits twice, damaging the corby (now orange). With a single swift stroke, Kage kills the (formerly green) corby! Talios misses. The final Corby flees! (withdraws) Turn Order:
Status:
Orange: -11
I feel like a broken record posting this in every game, but I'm traveling this weekend-- I'll check this game specifically since there's one turn before the bad guys to move it along before I hit the road, but then it won't be till late Sunday evening that I update after that.
"Very well then- I help you explore, no?" But just as Yjalk is inviting himself to "join" you, the brazier in the center of the room flashes and the spirit of the Sage of Plagues returns, reanimating a mass of corpses into another golem to attack you! Init:
Round 1 Turn Order:
Yuki moves in to flank as Gareau misses. They attack Kolaach:
And Lief:
Turn order:
Status:
Yeah- I ran another table of my dwarves of gold peak game in person from 3rd through 15th level and that was in 5th Ed- while I still feel the system is too limited on options and variation, those few things really stand out as being useful, so I’m taking these two and might look at taking advantage-disadvantage in later games.
Oh no- she falls into that “much too high a cr so that she auto tpks” area- she is definitively a problem for another day and a much higher level.
And yes- I have been think about this for a while, but yes that witch going down so easily was the final push for me to decide I need to incorporate this stuff now instead of waiting till I start a new game and can mention it during recruiting.
So- in my eternal quest to make interesting and interactive combat scenarios, I’ve decided to incorporate two of the very few good things from 5th edition to those of my games which are still in early stages including this one. Those are- lair and legendary actions. For anyone who hasn’t dabbled in fifth Ed, these are special actions that some enemies get in order to counteract the dreadful action economy that makes what should be “challenging” enemies end up missing twice before dying without having to make them so much higher cr than the party that they become unkillable or tpk machines. Lair actions happen only when you are fighting an enemy in their “lair” or home- hence the name. They happen on initiative 20 always, one per round. Legendary actions are actions powerful foes can take throughout the round (jumping in to take them after any action)- they usually have several options and 3 actions worth to take per round, with some actions taking two or all three of those. These are in addition to existing AOOs and reactions that I might craft onto monsters other ways. I just wanted to let everyone know so whenever I spring this on you in combat the first time you aren’t surprised, confused, and angered.
"No, that won't do- I am here to find a powerful weapon that should be here, one that will help me slay the Linnorm and become King."
Kolaach hits, but Volk misses! Lief swings and misses! Troy hits, and finishes off the wounded guard! Turn order:
Status:
As the corby tries to stand, Mitsuru drops him! Then she turns and finishes Kikono with another stab! With Kikono down, Emili trips a corby! Turn Order:
Status:
Green: -5, prone
Round 3
The Archons manage to kill a giant on their own this time. Rubius drops two with two arrows each and puts the final arrow into a third. Tawny tears the wounded giant apart, killing it.
miss!
Many of the giants flee, but a few stumble forward and swing!
At Dvalin:
Initiative:
Status:
Tawny: 63/84
Giant Kill Counter: 15
Ohhh- second level spells means scorching ray which is a big one for Phoenix bloodline arcana!
So- raise dead leaves Viatrix at two negative levels. You can get a single restoration here for one of them, and a scroll for the second- but that can’t be cast for ten days (a week). So for the next week it’s up to you if you want to play Viatrix with a negative level or Vargas and have Vi “recovering” in safety. And with that, we’ve also hit our hinge point for everyone to level up to 4th level! By my count total cost on Raise Dead plus two restoration for negative levels is 8170 gold.
You return to the Witch was of the Woods, and true to her word she has prepared for the casting of the spell, and upon payment of her silver raises Viatrix to life.
Round 3
Kragg's three hits kill another giant! Gage puts three arrows into another. Initiative:
Status:
Tawny: 63/84
Giant Kill Counter: 10
Everyone hits and the witch goes down, leaving nothing but a battered pile of bones. Searching Hut:
Carved stone idol (30 gp) Gold censer with silver filigree (90 gp) Gold puzzle box (500 gp) Painting of a princess (100 gp) Polished darkwood chalice (50 gp) Silver holy symbol (25 gp) Scroll of Whispering Wind (cr, 150 gp) Wand of Doom (cr, 750 gp)
Round 2
One attack Rin:
While the other attacks Emili:
Savegly, Kikono lashes out with his Kusirigami and hit bite at Rin!
Turn Order:
Status:
Kikono: -64 Red: prone
Round 1
Kolaach hits one, as Yuki cures Gareau. Round 2
Dropping their bows and drawing blades, the three remaining ones charge:
hit!
hit!
Turn order:
Status:
Blue: -2 AC evil eye
"We don't need any permits- don't try any funny business on me here, or my crew will bust yours up!"
Round 2
Kazell misses with both arrows. Malik misses, while continuing his song. Karak and his mount both hit! The Green Witch turns towards Cra'Rak, sensing he is the biggest threat to her and lashes out:
Turn Order:
Karak: 25/31, pending will Green Witch: -34
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