I'm building a web site for our Kingmaker game, and I'm detailing some of the known NPCs upon it. Sadly, I can't recall who the NPC, Crestle, was. Crestle was made into the new Warden of our city, but I can't recall anything else about the character for the life of me. I'd just ask my GM if he weren't out of town at the moment.
I need to at least have a 1 sentence description of the NPC for the web site to be complete. Thanks in advance for any insight you can give!
Now that's interesting.
Kressle is one of the Stag Lord's field lieutenants, and the boss of Happs Bydon. She is encountered in the bandit camp, and is notable for her two handaxes and scary demeanor.
Now that's interesting.
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LOL. Now it's coming back to me. She was the b&$#+ who captured my knight and tortured him in a cage for a night.
When my party mates showed up to rescue me, her allies were slaughtered and herself captured. She was spared execution in exchange for information on the Stag Lord, though she was stripped of her gear, bound, and left to die in the wilderness. Our party went on to get slaughtered by the Stag Lord and his men.
Que the next party: mercenaries looking for a quick bounty who were hired by Oleg to "help rescue those poor souls who were kind enough to help me out a few weeks ago." Our new party butchered all the bandits in the region, got a lot of bounty, and were offered a charter to start a city for our efforts.
We agreed to it, but had difficulty filling positions. That's when Krestle showed up (with no one left alive to expose her as a former bandit) and offered her services, claiming to "know the region quite well" and "having had experience dealing with bandits in the past."
She has been quite the asset to our new party. :P
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We agreed to it, but had difficulty filling positions. That's when Krestle showed up (with no one left alive to expose her as a former bandit) and offered her services, claiming to "know the region quite well" and "having had experience dealing with bandits in the past."She has been quite the asset to our new party. :P
Oh that is hilarious!
Though, the only problem is that I would imagine Oleg and his wife would have recognized her as a bandit. IIRC, she was the one that took Svetlana's ring and gave the nasty cut to Oleg's leg prior to the PC's arriving to the lands.
We agreed to it, but had difficulty filling positions. That's when Krestle showed up (with no one left alive to expose her as a former bandit) and offered her services, claiming to "know the region quite well" and "having had experience dealing with bandits in the past."She has been quite the asset to our new party. :P
Oh that is hilarious!
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I don't recall the GM mentioning any of that. Guess it didn't happen!
Did she have a last name listed?
I'm pretty sure that
Oh this is good :)
Kressle made it into the governing councel on more than 1 kingdom. My current Warden let her go when they founded the kingdom (after lots of interrogation) and he just asked me if he could find her so he could deputize her. She is long gone by now though, after a year.
Going off of the description in the book, I played her as a very scary paranoid psychopath. She was captured by my party (due to a failed Will save vs. Sleep), but was completely unrepentant, fearless and unwilling to cooperate. Her last words before execution, as they were reading the list of her crimes, were: "Are you going to try and talk me to death, or what? Get on with it!"
The thought of her as Warden of the City scares me.
Going off of the description in the book, I played her as a very scary paranoid psychopath. She was captured by my party (due to a failed Will save vs. Sleep), but was completely unrepentant, fearless and unwilling to cooperate. Her last words before execution, as they were reading the list of her crimes, were: "Are you going to try and talk me to death, or what? Get on with it!"
The thought of her as Warden of the City scares me.
That's more or less how our GM played her too, though we were eventually able to get some info out of her (after sifting through several layers of lies).
I keenly recall her remorselessly putting two axes in my former character's chest.
Anyone know who made this picture?
Going off of the description in the book, I played her as a very scary paranoid psychopath. She was captured by my party (due to a failed Will save vs. Sleep), but was completely unrepentant, fearless and unwilling to cooperate. Her last words before execution, as they were reading the list of her crimes, were: "Are you going to try and talk me to death, or what? Get on with it!"
The thought of her as Warden of the City scares me.
I played he as very cunning, and knowing what information to give when to survive and have the PCs want to let her go. She kept her word to them because she knew that other people were saps and would keep theirs, but if she betrayed them at all she would die. Also, what did she have to lose? It was fun playing the PCs and watching them at eachother's throats about what to do with her.
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Anyone know who made this picture?
Narrowed it down to this list: Eric Belisle, Pavel Guzenko, Jon Hodgson, Peter Lazarski, Anna Mohrbacher, Scott Purdy, and Kyushik Shin. Lol, sorry, don’t know more than that. :P
Mine ended up employing her as Royal Assassin, a job she does very well.
They don't yet know what else she's been up to...
Ah, Kressle. She is, far and away, my favourite NPC thus far.
Later captured, Kressle switched allegiances and told the PCs all she knew about the Stag Lord. Before they formed a plan, she managed to seduce both Kesten (male) and one PC (female). When they all infiltrated the Stag Lord's camp disguised as bandits, one of the other bandits (Falgrim Sneeg) recognized Kesten, so Kressle (to maintain the deception) slammed Kesten's hand onto a crate and hacked off three of his fingers.
Since then, Kressle has been on the sidelines of the kingdom building process; since Kesten is the Warden, she's not allowed to show her face in the city. The PCs made her Spymaster for awhile, but she prefers not owing anyone allegiance. She has quietly seduced the PCs' marshal (Akiros), and has him wrapped around her finger (he thinks she's carrying his child)...which means he's feeding the PC rulers loads of misinformation about bandit activities etc.
She is, in short, an agent of chaos and a DM's best friend. Sooner or later, I know the PCs will tire of her and kill her. It will be a sad day.
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Kressle, my favourite NPC!
My party had a paladin of Sarenrae, really big on the whole "second chance" thingie, so he decided to try and stop the fight and have some one-on-one with the leader of the camp, being Kressle.
She replied with "If you want it, come and get it" from way across camp. After butchering the entire camp, and taking a s!!@load of arrows, the paladin reached her. Kressle, seeing as she was about to be surrounded by the party, called out "I thought you wanted an honourable fight." which scorned the paladin so much he gave into it. They fought, and the paladin got the upper-hand, and that's when Kressle yielded. The paladin (no healing left) started talking to her, trying to convince her, while Kressle took the opportunity to drink a little something-something (healing 2D6+2). When the paladin reached out his hand and had to roll his 3rd and last Diplomacy-check, he failed by 1. So Kressle bluffed him, reached out to him, and burried the hatchet in her other hand right under his arm into his chest.. As the paladin went down, Kressle jumped to the startled sorceress, and took her down too before the monk broke her neck.
All in all, a very Kressle-like story, don't you think? :D
Kressle, my favourite NPC!
My party had a paladin of Sarenrae, really big on the whole "second chance" thingie, so he decided to try and stop the fight and have some one-on-one with the leader of the camp, being Kressle.
She replied with "If you want it, come and get it" from way across camp. After butchering the entire camp, and taking a s##&load of arrows, the paladin reached her. Kressle, seeing as she was about to be surrounded by the party, called out "I thought you wanted an honourable fight." which scorned the paladin so much he gave into it. They fought, and the paladin got the upper-hand, and that's when Kressle yielded. The paladin (no healing left) started talking to her, trying to convince her, while Kressle took the opportunity to drink a little something-something (healing 2D6+2). When the paladin reached out his hand and had to roll his 3rd and last Diplomacy-check, he failed by 1. So Kressle bluffed him, reached out to him, and burried the hatchet in her other hand right under his arm into his chest.. As the paladin went down, Kressle jumped to the startled sorceress, and took her down too before the monk broke her neck.All in all, a very Kressle-like story, don't you think? :D
Did she kill the PCs or were they just out?
How about as a wife of a PC then? :P
The thought of her as Warden of the City scares me.
As we used to say in my cruder days in college, I wouldn't even do her with your $%^*!
Sometimes no matter how pretty the package (and she ain't that hot) you gotta just use your big head and say no. I think anyone sleeping with her is just begging for a John Wayne Bobbitt moment some time in his near future.
Or a promotion. Look what happened to the last guy.
Anyone mind opening up their Kingmaker module and giving me the names of the interior artists? (Or have you already done that, jtokay, ?)
In any case, I checked out all the galleries of those already listed and I couldn't find any evidence that any of them made the picture.
Did she kill the PCs or were they just out?
They both survived, but only thanks to the Monk's auto-stabilizing touch from the campaign traits.. If he hadn't rolled that natural on the neck-snapping and had 40ft movement, it would have been byebye to at least one of them..
Ah, Kressle. She is, far and away, my favourite NPC thus far.
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My PC recently married an atoned and heroic paladin of Sarenrae Akiros. She spent a good 18 months struggling with her personal feelings for him, her faith and her duty to her Goddess before nearly losing him finally made her realize that she was in love with him. And he's nearly fallen for her, too, you know, in the bad way for paladins due to some very evil bards who intended to destroy their union. The Kressle/Akiros pairings in other games always make me cringe, because I know there's a large possibility that she was his lover in our game too, but my PC has always been too timid to ask.
Our group actually spared Kressle to take her back to Oleg's to get beat up by him before Kesten executed her. In my PCs opinion, nothing of value was lost.
Corax, on the other hand, is our assassin, and my PCs greatest foe since our party rogue's player decided to recuse himself because he couldn't play a lying, cheating agent of Norbeger in party with a Cleric of Sarenrae.
Ah, Kressle. She is, far and away, my favourite NPC thus far.
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My PC recently married an atoned and heroic paladin of Sarenrae Akiros. She spent a good 18 months struggling with her personal feelings for him, her faith and her duty to her Goddess before nearly losing him finally made her realize that she was in love with him. And he's nearly fallen for her, too, you know, in the bad way for paladins due to some very evil bards who intended to destroy their union. The Kressle/Akiros pairings in other games always make me cringe, because I know there's a large possibility that she was his lover in our game too, but my PC has always been too timid to ask.
Our group actually spared Kressle to take her back to Oleg's to get beat up by him before Kesten executed her. In my PCs opinion, nothing of value was lost.
Corax, on the other hand, is our assassin, and my PCs greatest foe since our party rogue's player decided to recuse himself because he couldn't play a lying, cheating agent of Norbeger in party with a Cleric of Sarenrae.
Shipping? In my D&D?
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Our party ran her down and knocked her out when she ran from the fight (2 bandits remaining and she was at 5 HP.)
Back at camp, everyone worked on her to at least make her an ally. They liked how she handled herself in a fight, and wanted to have someone who knew more about the Stag Lord on their side. She actually was brought from Hostile to Friendly in about a week of working on her. This wasn't easy, as she told them to do bad things to themselves in places only seen with mirriors, and a couple of the PCs made some bad roleplay choices.
The fighter (a half-orc follower of Gorum) must have really been smitten with her though. He ordered an elixer of love special just for her. He was pretty sneaky about giving it to her too. He gave her a whole bottle of the booze they found laced with the stuff.
One long roleplay, and several rolls later, they made out in the storage shed.
The party has yet to take on the Stag Lord, so I will have to wait to see how the relationship turns out, but I plan on playing up alot of tension between her and Svetlana, as well as her evil alignment. She is going to be one bad girl, and I haven't yet decided if she should genuinely like the fighter PC, or just likes to play with him.
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Shipping? In my D&D?Ah, Kressle. She is, far and away, my favourite NPC thus far.
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My PC recently married an atoned and heroic paladin of Sarenrae Akiros. She spent a good 18 months struggling with her personal feelings for him, her faith and her duty to her Goddess before nearly losing him finally made her realize that she was in love with him. And he's nearly fallen for her, too, you know, in the bad way for paladins due to some very evil bards who intended to destroy their union. The Kressle/Akiros pairings in other games always make me cringe, because I know there's a large possibility that she was his lover in our game too, but my PC has always been too timid to ask.
Our group actually spared Kressle to take her back to Oleg's to get beat up by him before Kesten executed her. In my PCs opinion, nothing of value was lost.
Corax, on the other hand, is our assassin, and my PCs greatest foe since our party rogue's player decided to recuse himself because he couldn't play a lying, cheating agent of Norbeger in party with a Cleric of Sarenrae.
Hells to the yeah, shipping in D&D. A new era is upon us... ;)
I support Kressle/Akiros, personally. At least Akiros is a way better dude than Happs, to say nothing of some of the other bandits she could have hooked up with. I figure she has a weird bandity crush on the Stag Lord, too, but of course has never had occasion to act on it.
Kressle and her band were trounced pretty soundly by my PCs, who took her prisoner. They admired her integrity and loyalty to the Stag Lord, and invested a lot of time and effort into trying to show her their intentions were good, and not altogether stupid. I've had fun playing her as a rage-y, blunt, sarcastic pain in the butt who trolls the party at virtually every opportunity, drawing crude pictures at times to support her "arguments." She prefers intimidation to killing, and actually might not be nearly so heinous if she had ever known anything besides a life of banditry. The party took great pains to take the Stag Lord alive, and she is only now beginning to show signs of loyalty to them as well.
I thought she was kind of a dull character at first, but she really grew on me, and at least some of the PCs are fond of her, as well. There's talk of making her the Royal Assassin when the kingdom is founded, so I can't -wait- to see how that goes. ^_^
Wow... My game went way different. She kept missing and all three PC's ganged up on her and took her out fast. They never got to know her...
I love playing Kressle in my games. She's so messed up in the head. We're halfway through Stolen Land, and she still lives. She surrendered when the party took out the other bandits, and made herself valuable as the sole witness in their testimony against the Mayor of Restov. (The Lord Mayor is villainous in the campaign, having conspired with Happs and Kressle to burn down Oleg's when the PCs arrived there. His motivations are still under wraps for the time being, as they have not confronted him yet.) In the meantime, she is playing havoc with the guards. She recently taunted a local widow with how she forced herself on the widow's husband in order to break his will.
She's a piece of work, but a ton of fun to play.
My players just cleared out the bandit camp and I made her surrender when she was cornered against a tree, a greataxe weilding Inquisitor flanking her together with a Snow Tiger and an Enlarge Personed greatsword Paladin. These were not odds she was going to try to run away from or fight to the death.
She was really snarky, continually insulting the players magic-users, and threw in self-righteous jabs at them that being a bandit is a much more respectable profession than adventurers. They made her a good enough deal though to spill the beans on the Stag Lord, one month imprisonment at Oleg's followed by her release, provided she did not take to banditry or other trouble in their region.
Depending on how they treat her after that, she might become a valuable ally in their kingdom building, or a recurring villain!
Heh, my group just founded their barony and since they let Kressle go after defeating her at the river camp, she spied for them on the Stag Lord. And now she is <drumroll>... their Royal Assassin. I am seeing a lot of strange disappearances in the future for the newly founded barony. :D
Also Chief Sootscale transformed into Spymaster Sootscale... the barony advertises that every household gets their own free kobold servant. Not bad for a NG kingdom. ^^
I now wonder, though, how I should play it out with Dimitri.
Kressle was much less compelling in my handling of her, I suppose. After she critted the centaur monk and almost dropped him in the first encounter at the river ford (and she would have dropped him, too, if I had remembered to triple her strength bonus...), she proved to be extremely difficult to pin down and defeat. Eventually, with three people ganging up on her, they took her down and left her beaten into unconsciousness while they took her away for questioning. I mostly played her as sadistic and utterly enthralled with the Stag Lord and how amazing and charismatic he was, to the point where she came to be something of a zealot for his supposed "grand utopia where might is right," and the party pretty much wrote her off as a lost cause.
They kept her imprisoned in Oleg's stables, along with another bandit that they captured later on (Known to his bandit buddies as "Big El", but that's another story). When I had a group of bandits sneak into Oleg's trading post while the party was out (subduing Kesten and his men and setting up a trap to deal with the PCs), they let Kressle loose and she once again critted the centaur, though she failed to drop him this time and was summarily murderized. Someone suggested she come back as a ghost who would haunt the trading post, but that plot idea never managed to find a good opportunity to materialize. So she didn't get to do nearly as awesome of stuff as some of the stories here. Big El did manage to become the nation's spymaster, though.