Longtooth humiliated

[Rycke]

I ran the Raid on Sandpoint for my party this weekend and their witch singlehandedly destroyed Longtooth.

The witch (Garp) was flying over the town so he could keep an eye on everything happening. When Longtooth got close to the Lighthouse (where they assumed he was heading), Garp teleported the party there. He then proceeded to feeblemind him, turning his methodical destruction of the town into a mindless rampage. He let him rampage for a few rounds. Then, he used the Ice Tomb hex to drop him to the ground. Since Longtooth is a red dragon, I decided the hex would last 10 rounds instead of 10 minutes. He only needed 4 rounds (with the help of his flying scorpion familiar) to use the wand of enervation supplied at the end of Book 3 to drain all 13 levels from Longtooth.

In the meantime, their Paladin (Johann) was providing taxi service to their Swashbuckler (Reghar) who Parried and Riposted every swing the giants made at him and their Fighter (Kalik) cut through whatever was left.

The only thing the giants managed was to raid Scarnetti manor and get away. Teraktinus was captured (another victim of the Ice Tomb) and only 2 buildings were set on fire. Looks like I have some work ahead of me if Jorgenfist is going to pose any challenge to this party.

[Yossarian]

Sounds fun. There's over a hundred stone giants at Jorgenfist you can call in you need to up the challenge rating!

My encounter went very differently. Our highly charismatic draconic sorcerer managed to charm Longtooth, they flirted a while then she convinced him to leave, helped by the fact that the giants were getting thoroughly beaten.

[Elorebaen]

Interesting! Sounds exciting for the witch!

The CR could've been tweaked a bit to challenge them more, methinks. But if your players dug it, then great!

Curious what point-buy are the characters?

[Rycke]

Elorebaen wrote:

Interesting! Sounds exciting for the witch!

The CR could've been tweaked a bit to challenge them more, methinks. But if your players dug it, then great!

Curious what point-buy are the characters?

They're 25 points. If I had it to do over, they'd be 15. Also, I later found out that there is no line of effect to someone in an ice block, so he couldn't have drained his levels. As it stands now, he thinks he did. They moved on to Teraktinus, so I'm going to have them see Longtooth flying away in the distance.