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<blockquote data-quote="Garnfellow" data-source="post: 2202217" data-attributes="member: 1223"><p><strong>One More Thought on Asberdies</strong></p><p></p><p>This combines a couple of ideas I picked up from the old Greytalk threads. If this encounter is to be a role-playing one then it should have a nice, proper build up to make it all the more memorable. I could imagine that Asberdies spends most of his time now in his weird twilight consciousness. But the sight of an obviously monstrous creature (like a bugbear, gargoyle, troll, or troglodyte) is enough to jar him back to reality long enough to mercilessly zap the unfortunate critter into oblivion.</p><p></p><p>Accordingly, every single blessed intelligent monster in the warrens knows ALL about Asberdies (whom they call the "Scorned King," though they don't know why) and is scared to death of ever meeting him. Any prisoner captured in the area will gladly tell his captors all about the horrible, terrible, all-powerful Scorned King, and everone will have a story or two about how their neighbor's cousin's brother-in-monster was disintigrated by this awful terror.</p><p></p><p>So by the time the PCs meet him, they should be well nigh frightened out of their wits. (Of course, not being obviously monstrous in appearance, the PCs will not immediately set Asberdies off. But they won't know that, will they?)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Garnfellow, post: 2202217, member: 1223"] [b]One More Thought on Asberdies[/b] This combines a couple of ideas I picked up from the old Greytalk threads. If this encounter is to be a role-playing one then it should have a nice, proper build up to make it all the more memorable. I could imagine that Asberdies spends most of his time now in his weird twilight consciousness. But the sight of an obviously monstrous creature (like a bugbear, gargoyle, troll, or troglodyte) is enough to jar him back to reality long enough to mercilessly zap the unfortunate critter into oblivion. Accordingly, every single blessed intelligent monster in the warrens knows ALL about Asberdies (whom they call the "Scorned King," though they don't know why) and is scared to death of ever meeting him. Any prisoner captured in the area will gladly tell his captors all about the horrible, terrible, all-powerful Scorned King, and everone will have a story or two about how their neighbor's cousin's brother-in-monster was disintigrated by this awful terror. So by the time the PCs meet him, they should be well nigh frightened out of their wits. (Of course, not being obviously monstrous in appearance, the PCs will not immediately set Asberdies off. But they won't know that, will they?) [/QUOTE]
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