We used coconuts (for the applause and later for the horse...)
Ruyan.
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Name: Almost
Race: Half-elf
Class: Rogue 4
Adventure: Rivers Run Red
Location: Mud Bowl
Catalyst: Swallowed whole
When the session began, the Baroness's player was unable to make it, so instead of doing kingdom turns, they decided to go exploring in the southern Kamelands. Upon finding the tendriculos in the mud bowl, the rogue went charging in to flank. Unfortunately, the creature swallowed him right up, and he lasted all of a round inside the gut of the huge plant.
The worst part is that this is the newest player to the group, and this was the first session with this character. He had been working on the character for a couple of weeks, and he has been named Almost the whole time, but now we joke that he was almost a character, just couldn't quite make it.
I think he means 'the party were having trouble swimming'...So our party's samurai couldn't resist nailing the wall guards on the lizardfolk village with his bow, and killed one. (they were having a lot of trouble getting across the river because of awful Swim checks).Lizardfolk have a +8 swim check and a swim speed of 15', how were they possibly having trouble swimming?
That's exactly what I meant. They were trying to sneak in during the dead of night and aren't very strong as a general rule.
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Name: Duchess Elegy Medvyed
Race: Human
Classes/levels: Oracle [Spellscar, Legalistic] 9
Adventure: Rivers Run Red
Location: Candlemere
Catalyst: Not knowing the rules of reach
The Gory Details: After reaching the top of Candlemere Tower - including several battles with the spawn of the Dark Song and a short jaunt into The World's Shadow - the rulers of Iomrall found themselves facing the "lead" of the Spawn: a many-mouthed, tentacled monstrosity known as a Chorus. The creature swiftly displayed much of its threat by nomming on Marshall Takeshi and General Jaekah, but it got its greatest bite out of Duchess Elegy, who decided to try to run behind Takeshi to avoid the thing's flailing mouths rather than simply take the five-foot step to reach him and cast her curing spell. Nowhere near nimble enough to evade the ensuing Attack of Opportunity, Elegy was bitten, easily grappled, and Snatched into one of the things' mouths with a nasty Crit Deck card tacked on. The bleed it incited pushed her just over the edge, after a second bite from the Snatch on the monster's turn, at the very next initiative.
The group was able to slay the Chorus - which only had 15 HP remaining before it grabbed Elegy - and took a finger back to the Forest Temple, then called the Old Beldame and her apprentice there to reincarnate her; unfortunately for them, Elegy had decided to take advantage of her untimely death to attempt to get free of her debt to Queen Mab of the Winter Court, and refused the call to return. Mab, of course, would have none of this, and personally went to fetch Elegy's soul from the beyond and give her a stern talking-to. Elegy, upon seeing the fey queen approaching her postmortem, immediately changed her tone to something suitably deferential; somewhat mollified by her submissiveness, Mab relented slightly - as Elegy's main complaint was split between "I'm the wrong person for this job" (which Mab took personally as "you made a mistake in picking me" and also strongly disagrees with) and "I don't have enough time in my meager human lifespan to do this", Mab elected to bring her back in the form of the longest-lived of my setting's races, an Aranea (which, including their metamorphosis in to Arachne around age 800, can live up to 1500 years, with a few rare cases of as high as 2000). To give her an ever-present reminder of to whom she belongs, Elegy now also possesses the Arctic template.
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snicker
So she pissed off her patron, got her wish true in typical djinni fashion(done to the letter but sure to screw you over), and got saddled with a template that gives her a small but noteworthy weakness to fire...not long before she fights a giant monster lord named, aptly, the "Fire-Eater."
It's good to be the King, indeed.
INDEED!
Happened a while back, but still...
Name: Morgan
Race: Human
Class / Levels: Wizard 5
Location: Random encounter
Catalyst: Underestimated the enemy
We were ambushed by a pair of trolls. We were pretty good at killing trolls at this point, so nobody was worried. First troll falls, no problem. Cleric and fighter move into flank on the second troll as my wizard fires off a scorching ray to shut down the troll's regeneration. Problem: Nobody realized that when the cleric moved into flank there was a clear path from the troll to the wizard. Oops.
The troll charged. And hit with both claws and the bite. Which meant the troll got to rend automatically. The result is that the wizard was bit in half. It was an ugly way to go. Thankfully the group knew about a friendly Druid and within a week the mage was reincarnated as an elf. Which made the ranger, who had been reincarnated as a dwarf, very jealous.
After that, the wizard took to the air. The first item he crafted for himself was a pair of boots of flying. No more melee range!
How did the troll full attack on a charge?
Got a point there, he shouldn't have been able to use all his attacks, therefor not able to rend.
I have run this wrong aswel, but he just went with it. I figured it was like two-weapon fighting on the claws.
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The troll had the "ragechargepounce" thing going on. ;)
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How did the troll full attack on a charge?
Don't recall exactly. It was a while back and all I remember is that we all made a check of a tactical blooper. I could call the GM but where's the fun in that? It may have just had to make a 5 foot step. I remember thinking that I needed to make one before my turn ended but forgot to. And down the stinky gullet went the mage. Even though it was my character, I had to laugh (later), because we were so cocky going into that fight.
By the way, Turin, your avatar gives me the screaming willies.
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That is the 'Problem?' trollface. Perfect fit for Turin.
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That is the 'Problem?' trollface. Perfect fit for Turin.
^_____^
Pfffffffffffhahahahhahahahahahah!!! They RECRUITED him? Hahahahah, that's beautiful!
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Can't wait for the betrayal ;)
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Be sure to level Vordekai the Magister up in parallel to the PCs. Soon enough he will be able to replace his phylactery ... and of course he is in a position to skim off the treasury just a wee bit ... each month. A few years' time and he'll have his shiny new phylactery, a full kit as a PC of his class level or CR (as you deem fit) ... and then, he'll strike in the dead of night. Preferably after a serious celebration by the PCs.
Can't wait to read the results of that. ;)
Exactly! :-D
That's awesome. Is the whole party evil or just the king?
Regardless, the ensuing power struggles should be epic.
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By all means, Lythis, by all means.
The rest of the party is constituted of NG's and CG's who have been riding down slippery slopes into neutral territory. This slow slide into neutrality and evil has mostly been caused by the king.
I guess this counts as a technical demise? As well as a case of staggeringly bad wording when dealing with fey. =)
Name: Lilith Blackheart
Race: Dhampir
Classes/levels: Rogue 8/Psion 1
Adventure: Rivers Run Red
Location: The Mazewood (replacement dungeon at Hodag Lair)
Catalyst: "Very Poor Choice of Words!"
The Gory Details: The party had gone to investigate rumors of the Mazewood, a locale where the borders between FaeReie and the Prime were thin, and found themselves trapped within the labyrinthine forest known to be part-time home to none other than The Puck himself. After wandering about for a while, the trickster approached the party at last, thanking them for the entertainment they had provided and offering them gifts as a gracious host. Lilith, a dhampir haunted by the shadow of her sire, simply requested (via telepathic link) "freedom from her sire".
Later, after Puck had led the group to do his dirty work by killing off a trapped Colour Out of Space and the Lurkers in Light that had begun worshiping it, Puck grabbed Lilith as the party was exiting the Mazewood and kissed her full on the lips. Over the course of the next few days his deal with her was completed as she metamorphosed into a newly-created species of fey, severing her vampiric heritage in the process.
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Heh.
Truly, Robyn shall restore amends!
Name: Nyrissa, Queen of Forgotten Time
Race: Elder Fae
Classes/levels: Mythic Incarnate Demiplane
Adventure: Sound of a Thousand Screams (Mythic Rewrite)
Location: The Fable
Catalyst: Overconfidence. Sheer overconfidence.
The Gory Details: After her once-pawns and now hated enemies - the vile group known as "the PCs" - received an infusion of mythic power from a powerful fae and honed it fighting Nyrissa's strongest minions, the ever-paranoid Queen took desperate measures: She fused her essence with that of the Fable, becoming a living demiplane. Confident in her nearly limitless power (And her 5,000 hit points) she allowed the PCs to challenge her. Unfortunately, she severely underestimated just how powerful level 19/mythic tier 4 characters are. The fight lasted 4 rounds.
It's been a wild ride...
AWESOME.
Name: Jaekah, General of Iomrall
Race: Juvenile Magma Dragon
Classes/levels: Barbarian [True Primitive] 5/Cavalier [Honor Guard] 4
Adventure: Rivers Run Red
Location: The Wyld Hunt - on the shores of the Candlemere
Catalyst: Prismatic Spray
The Gory Details: While on the Wyld Hunt, the Rulers of Iomrall encountered a small herd of Behemoth Teleost, one of which charged the section of the Hunt where the Rulers were fighting. After a few rounds of battle, the Teleost unleashed its prismatic spray spell-like ability; Jaekah was struck by the green beam and succumbed to the death effect of the poison.
He was swiftly revived and healed by Duchess Elegy, and returned immediately to help battle and slay the monstrosity, the last kill of the party before sunrise and the end of the Wyld Hunt.
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Name: King Vangrin Torsas
Race: Human
Classes/levels: Cavalier 4/Paladin 8
Adventure: War of the River Kings
Location: South Rostland Road, off-map on the way to New Stetven
Catalyst: capture and recklessness
The Gory Details: In my campaign, the players touched off the Brevic civil war and are living in its shadow. Surtova and Irovitti are working together to assault the PC kingdom to strike at a weak spot and divide Rostland, the PC kingdom, and Mivon, who have allied in the Aldori Swordpact. Olegton was the first to be attacked, and the handful of defenders were quickly overrun and mopped up for Surtova's professional forces. King Torsas had himself teleported to Olegton to lead the defenses, but was defeated and captured in the mass combat rules.
Recognizing the value of their captive, Surtova's troops headed north with the King bound and naked in a wagon. The only gear he retained was Ovinirbaane, which resisted all attempts at collection. Irovitti sent his ogre mage general Jurrg and his champion Koth to guard the convoy.
The rest of the party assembled on the airship they've built (using stats from the old githyanki invasion event in 3.5) and flew to the rescue. The compliment of archers they brought made short work of the hapless Surtovan ground troops, but Jurrg and Koth benefited from Protection from Arrows and forced the party to engage them. They stood over the bound form of King Torsas and threatened to execute him on the spot if the PCs attacked. Torsas got a Freedom of Movement spell from Ovinirbaane and attacked. He was hacked to bits by first Jurrg and then Koth, and died bravely (and naked).
After defeating Jurrg and Koth, the PCs retreated to their kingdom's main Temple of Erastil and got the king raised under utmost secrecy.
Name: Duke Basque Garess
Race: Human
Classes/levels: 6 Cavalier/7 Battle Herald
Adventure: War of the River Kings
Location: The Vineyard Abbey
Catalyst: Ambush and two crits
The Gory Details: Following the battles between Anatoray's armies and King Irovetti's invasion force, the PC's decided to march their wounded troops to Harkenwold (Ft. Drelev renamed) and have them hold there while the party scouted into Pitax.
After finding a seemingly abandoned Abbey, the party landed to investigate. After entering the main lobby, Basque led the way on his mount, and pulled aside a curtain and was able to see the ambush coming. After ripping the curtain aside, a hidden sniper crited him immediately, dealing 100+ damage (bane+favored enemy human). Still with 50 hitpoints, Basque thought he'd be able to end the fight by taking out the BB (countercritted him with a lance on a charge for 175+bleed). Unfortunately, as he charged past, hidden enemies swiped at him with opportunity attacks. One critted and instantly blew through his remaining HP and CON, killing him outright. His mount was able to carry him back to the party mage, which teleported the party outside the Abbey.
Name: Krell
Race: Human (Kellid)
Classes/Levels: Barb 6
Name: Teldronas
Race: Elf
Classes/Levels: Transmuter 5 (6?)
Technical death:
Name: Taddäus
Race: Human
Classes/Levels: Cleric of Torag 7
Adventure: Rivers Run Red (what an apt name!)
Location: Hauerfeste (their capital upon the shores of lake Tuskwater)
Catalyst: crits and a movement rate of 60 ft.
The gory details:
After another of their forays (they'd just cleared the Lone Barrow and resurrected their new addition to the party (Krell the Barbarian) and returning home from Restov, the PCs were informed that a moon ago two deaths had striken fear into the population of Hauerfeste only to be greeted by another death the very night after their return.
After much investigation (and a second death) they spotted the cause for the attacks stalking his final prey for this moon's cycle in the streets of their capital. A very mobile fight errupted in the residential district of Hauerfeste between the group of PCs (the baron and the warden were absent this session) and the aggressor.
I had upped Kundal to be a lvl 8 barb and gave him gear for 1/3 WBL (curtesy of N).
Being buffed by bull's strength Krell closedin on the werewolf and a barb vs. barb fight ensued. Both were raged, but Kundal had the advantage of two more levels and better to-hit-and-crit ratio. Succeeding in a trip attempt in round 3, Krells AC dropped down to 8--making it quite easy for Kundal to hit his fellow Kellid. A round later, Krell died to a crit (~70 damage) from Kundal's +1 greataxe.
Meanwhile, the mage had flown upwards, hovering 20 ft above ground level watching the scene and doing some battlefield control. After casting grease he wanted to hit it big time next round but was beaten in initiative (we roll for it each round) by Kundal who had just killed Krell. The cleric had fled the scene at that stage of the fight. Kundal critted the poor elf throwing his fore-last javelin picking the mage out of the sky. He hid the roof beneath him for another solid 5 damage and never stabilized.
The cleric had tried frantically to help his comrades in arms but was clever enough to retreat after Krell was killed; problem was getting away from a foe with three times the movement rate he himself had...
Kundal started playing with his helpless victim using his knockback rage power and also succeeded in spreading his curse. Reinforcements led by the trusty kobold Mikmek arrived at the scene, but were no match for the brute. Taddäus made his stabilize check at around -6 hp and we left it at that.
The group is now contemplating how to proceed.
Ruyan.
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Victory, thy name be Combat Maneuvers and Scribe Scroll.
chain of purgatory, summons, mirror image, spiritual weapon ... they can beat him. They just need to think outside of their pine boxes. ;)
Hmm.. Well if the characters don't mind perhaps have their lands annexed by an allied(if there is one) land who will govern it more or less the same as a token of respect. A new group sent by the allies will be outfitted with silver arrows and werewolf appropriate gear. Nothing over whelming of course.(Plus make sure to note that being silver heavy means they will be ill equiped for future problems)
This should help them getting over the stumbling block of Kundal.
The debate is already on.
But you're right, of course, Turin, this kind of thinking would've kept them outside their *silvered* boxes - hehe.
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Name: Takeshi, Marshall of Iomrall
Race: Naga (homebrew race, human torso with snake tail for legs version)
Classes/Levels: Samurai [nitōjutsu sensei, ronin] 10
Name: Lilith Adhmad Dubh, Spymistress of Iomrall
Race: Leanbh-Dubh (homebrew race, plant-infused fey)
Classes/Levels: Rogue [assassin/scout] 8/Psion [telepath] 1/arcane archer 1
Adventure: Rivers Run Red
Location: Hargulka's Lair
Catalyst: The Final Showdown
The gory details: Long story short, the group decided to engage the last two rooms of Hargulka's lair at once, and found themselves up against:
1. King Hargulka Fire-Eater, Half-Jabberwock Troll Fighter [dragon warrior]7, mythic Champion 1
2. Hargulka's Hound, an Advanced Giant Trollhound
3. Enlort Earthblood, Troll Invoker 6
4. Kargadd, rock troll dreadnaught Barbarian [jotunkin] 5
5. Rigg Gargadilly, quickling rogue [assassin] 10
Takeshi was the first to fall, hit by Kargadd's Felling Strike on his very first claw attack, requiring a fort save in the 40s versus death.
Lilith went down a few rounds later when Rigg, eager to get revenge for his humiliation at the Abandoned Keep, landed a death attack on her and she rolled an 11 versus a DC-19 save-or-die.
Both were swiftly revived by Duchess Elegy's breath of life and able to return to the fight.
There were a few more close calls, with Takeshi and Lilith both nearing death's door once again (Takeshi even being knocked back into negatives though not quite to death) as well as Magister Errol creeping toward single-digit HPs, but the party was victorious, and slew Kargadd, Hargulka, and Rigg, though Enlort became invisible and fled as Hargulka neared death.
Now they just have to survive the castle-sized owlbear that just woke up outside and started marching toward their capital.
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This was from the last session of the campaign (which was a few months ago now)
Name: General Bahrel
Race: Dwarf
Classes/levels: Ranger 16ish
Adventure: The last one
Location: Nyrissa's throne room
Catalyst: Nyrissa
The Gory Details:She let off a prismatic spray which covered the party. Bahrel got hit by the 'save or die' poison ray. Confident of his high fort save, he rolled without fear. You can probably guess what number came up...
Seeing Bahrel slump down down dead, the party Cleric of Erastil sprang forward and hit him with a breath of life.
Back alive, Bahrel charged back into the fray, eventually decapitating Nyrissa with Briar (the last die-roll of the campaign)
*Evil Grin* I had to save my party from a TPK in the arms of the dancing lady. They had all failed their saves, and were going down - when their NPC followers burst onto the scene and disrupted things for just long enough ....
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Dancing lady is one hell of an encounter. First time, I played it wrongly, this time my players are in for a world of hurt :)
Probably have one death to report here in 2-3 weeks :P