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The quick background: the PCs are travelling from Waterdeep to Anauroch via gnomish airship to begin chapter 3 of 4 of my ~2-year long campaign. They are currently level 9/mythic 2
One of my players is out sick tomorrow night and the rest of the players still want to play. I was planning on throwing a pretty epic encounter at them in the form of a black dragon that's been stalking them that will "jump" their airship, but with a player out I want a bit of a lighter encounter, perhaps even one with some humor.
Any ideas for an easier encounter aboard a gnomish airship for a party of 4? Techno mishap? Wild beast? Inter-dimensional crossrift encounter with Gith?
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Everything is better with monkeys:
Dehrii airships pirates. Dehrii are flying gorillas, give them some class levels (Simple creature template for quick and easy ones) and make one of them a boss by making a match for the pcs. Your party will always remember the day, their airships got attacked by flying gorillas.
Everything is better with monkeys:
Dehrii airships pirates. Dehrii are flying gorillas, give them some class levels (Simple creature template for quick and easy ones) and make one of them a boss by making a match for the pcs. Your party will always remember the day, their airships got attacked by flying gorillas.
Dehri? I'm familiar with the Hadozee from 3.5, but I've never heard of them. Or any other flying gorilla races, aside from the Hadozee, really.
Sticking with PF content, you could use Vanarans...
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Everything is better with monkeys:
Dehrii airships pirates. Dehrii are flying gorillas, give them some class levels (Simple creature template for quick and easy ones) and make one of them a boss by making a match for the pcs. Your party will always remember the day, their airships got attacked by flying gorillas.
Dehri? I'm familiar with the Hadozee from 3.5, but I've never heard of them. Or any other flying gorilla races, aside from the Hadozee, really.
Sticking with PF content, you could use Vanarans...
I believe Dehrii are in Lost Empires of Golarian
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So ... a little update.
To avoid attracting attention, the airship sailed out of Waterdeep Harbor as a normal ship. Shortly before taking off, the "infestation" of gremlins appeared and the characters went below decks to clear that out. While in the air, the party was attacked first by a few vampiric mists and then by a Derhii group scouting for the main bad guy, the insane magma dragon.
The dragon combat was epic, with flybys of a breath weapon, multiple parties being feared (including the dragon, thanks to an oracle being brave enough to walk up and touch it), and finally the dragon bursting the airship envelope and the gnomish crew bailing out. One PC wearing cat boots fell 5000 feet and survived only because of their mythic tier; he was at -33 out of -36 and auto-stabalized after hitting the ground. The dragon was in retreat with 10 HP out of 315, and got sniped by the pixie ninja using mythic rapid shot to be defeated.
But ... with the airship destroyed and the crew scattered, the PCs find themselves deep in the High Forest having to yet traverse a large river and a mountain range!
Thanks, all, for your suggestions.
An abandoned cloud Castle that some cloud Giants have left after there untimely death by adventure. The place can have as few dangerous or Treasures as need be and it can be deterioating so it dosent become a mobile base for the heroes.
Edit: ohh it is over. :)