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<blockquote data-quote="Goonalan" data-source="post: 6166203" data-attributes="member: 16069"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px">Let's Play #6 DMG Kobold Hall (Level 1)</span></p><p></p><p>Session 1.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40504969@N08/9368652276/" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3744/9368652276_8c0a9d1cd6_c.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Encounter #5 The True Threat (Area 5.)</p><p></p><p>[sblock=The Map]</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40504969@N08/8721566354/" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7284/8721566354_7fa891b962_b.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center">The Kobold Hall</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40504969@N08/8720426765/" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7403/8720426765_18a4f1d59c_z.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center">Area 5. The True Threat</p><p></p><p>[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>Rested up the adventurers make their way through the secret door pointed out by their kobold dragonshield prisoner.</p><p></p><p>In truth I had the last kobold surrender just so I could ensure that the players would get to find out about the final encounter.</p><p></p><p>The adventurers move down a passage, its cold in here, and… the floor is covered in ice, and what’s that- Bharash screams.</p><p></p><p>“DRAGON!”</p><p></p><p>The adventurers halt- ahead, at the very edge of their light, is a massive pillar of stone- one of two in the chamber, snaking around the pillar is the neck and elongated neck of a dragon- a white dragon buy the look of things.</p><p></p><p>Bad Guys 750 XP Level 3 Encounter</p><p>Dragon White Young Level 3 Solo Brute</p><p></p><p>[sblock=The Monster Manual]</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40504969@N08/8720705801/" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7403/8720705801_f216685f2c_z.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>“KILL IT!” More or less all of them scream.</p><p></p><p>Quarion flings out a dagger and catches the great creature on the snout- the blade momentarily sticks in, splitting the dragon’s lip.</p><p></p><p>“Thathhh not vewy sporthhing!” The white dragon lisps, and then lurches forward- at pace, the adventurers react. Harann and Bharash charge- Mr. Benn gets a little closer to the action, the dragonborns hack and slash at the great beast, both manage to cut and scar the dragon; Mr. Benn’s Gaze of Defiance leaves the creature momentarily a tiny bit frightened of its attackers.</p><p></p><p>The moment passes very quickly.</p><p></p><p>WHOOOOOOSH</p><p></p><p>The group are engulfed in a storm of freezing fog and crackling shooting shards of ice, Mr. Benn is left quaking and numb, and very bloodied; nothing compared to Bharash however- the dragonborn warlord staggers almost unconscious. He feels… feels… nothing.</p><p></p><p>RAAAAAAAARRRGH!</p><p></p><p>The dragon rises to its full height, it must be ten or twelve feet tall balanced on its hind legs, it roars, a Frightful Presence.</p><p></p><p>Quarion, Mr. Benn and Harann are left- stunned, unable to move, to speak, to… anything.</p><p></p><p>Things are bad- really bad; I am certain I can see tears in the eyes of some of the kids- that’s four PCs out of the action (nearly). Bharash is reduced to 1 hit point, Quarion and Harann are stunned, and Mr. Benn is down to 8 hit points and is also stunned. The kids are going to have to pull out the stops to win this one.</p><p></p><p>I really am a bad man.</p><p></p><p>Varis fires an arrow, buries it in the dragon’s chest; the elf screams- “you don’t mess with my friends!” The dragon roars, half in pain- half in anger; Varis quickly shuffles away, around a corner and out of sight- the beast is furious.</p><p></p><p>“Ooopsie!” The elf frets.</p><p></p><p>Bharash mutters quietly to himself, some Inspiring Words, he breathes hard and settles for defending himself for the moment, he takes a moment to get his Second Wind, he also manages to throw off the numbness from the dragon’s cold attack. Bharash is ready and able to fight again- let’s hope he gets the chance.</p><p></p><p>The dragon launches itself at the stunned Quarion hoping to take the eladrin down; the creature unleashes its Dragon’s Fury, and yet somehow manages only to cut Quarion once, and then to no great affect.</p><p></p><p>Varis dodges back out and fires- arrow after arrow, four in all- three of which hit, the white dragon lurches and roars its anger.</p><p></p><p>“I will deth-twoy yew alllllllll!” The creature states.</p><p></p><p>Harann suddenly regains his senses, she sets about the dragon with her Villian’s Menace, although she fails to find her mark- not content she tries again, this time connects and slashes at the tendons on one of the dragon’s legs- it hobbles.</p><p>Quarion suddenly disappears from before the dragon, clearly the eladrin is no longer stunned, the white dragon looks left, and then right- where did he go? The next moment the great beast screeches and half-turns, the eladrin’s dagger still stuck in its back.</p><p></p><p>Bharash sees his opportunity and strikes with his Bastion of Defence.</p><p></p><p>“For smash get mashed!” The dragonborn screams, the effect is instantaneous- the great drake is bloodied, it lurches and makes a noise like a choking roar- less anger, more hurt. The adventurers cheer, buoyed by Bharash’s words.</p><p></p><p>WHOOOOSH</p><p></p><p>The cheering is short-lived the dragon unleashes a winter ice storm, miraculously only Harann is affected by the cold, the dragonborn’s teeth chatter as she freezes. Bharash is having none of it- he slashes and cuts the beast again. </p><p></p><p>Mr. Benn mutters Healing Words- to himself, his wounds heal over; his prayers continue until he seems to glow a little like a Beacon of Hope, the wounds of all of his allies heal over, while the white dragon staggers and lurches, weakened. Benn follows up by firing a Sacred Flames at the dragon.</p><p></p><p>Just a note to say that the players have turned the tide, the dragon is only just bloodied- on 87 hit points, but is also weakened. The players are all now fairly healthy, at least none of them are bloodied, and they’re also unleashing a Daily power and Action Point frenzy.</p><p></p><p>The dragon however is still a terrible foe, it unleashes its Dragon’s Fury on Harann, it attacks with both claws- slashing furiously, and then does the same again; somehow however Harann manages to defend all but one of the creature’s attacks, the one that gets through is no-more than a scratch.</p><p></p><p>Varies fires again, the dragon sprouts two more arrows; it’s beginning to look like a giant pin-cushion. The creature roars and rises up- Harann dodges in and cuts with all her might, her Tide of Iron smashes the dragon back, straight in to Quarion’s path, the eladrin has a fresh dagger in hand- his Sly Flourish scores a terrible hit, ripping through the creature’s scales and deep in to its flesh.</p><p></p><p>The dragon isn’t given time to thing, Bharash stabs it hard, it bleeds, Mr. Benn lights up the beast with his Divine Glow; it roars again, claws frantically and slashes Harann again, the dragonborn is however unconcerned, she roars back.</p><p></p><p>“Too little, too late- Snowman!”</p><p></p><p>Another arrow thuds in to the beast.</p><p></p><p>It staggers and is caught again by Harann’s blade, another Tide of Iron knocking the creature back, back again in to Quarion’s arc, the eladrin slashes hard.</p><p></p><p>The dragon moans.</p><p></p><p>The dragon staggers.</p><p></p><p>The dragon speaks-</p><p></p><p>“That’s Mr. Snowman to youuaaarggghhhh…”</p><p></p><p>The dragon dies.</p><p></p><p>The adventurers have won.</p><p></p><p>750 XP Level 3 Encounter</p><p>Dragon White Young Level 3 Solo Brute</p><p></p><p>A search of the area reveals a bunch more gold coins, clearly the kobold bandits under the white dragon’s supervision have been busy. There’s also a magical sword to be had, which has to be taken back to Fallcrest to be identified- it’s a +1 Lifedrinker Longsword.</p><p></p><p>None of the adventurers have any skills in Arcana.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40504969@N08/9366068031/" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7409/9366068031_e3983f9d52_o.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center">Bharash has a new sword…</p><p></p><p>And so having defeated the kobolds, with pockets full of treasure, and several sacks stuffed with ‘wanted’ dead kobolds; the guys head home.</p><p></p><p>Comment: The hook is in, the kids didn’t have many problems to solve in this adventure, really they just had to learn the rules, or at least a few of them. They enjoyed the fact that several of the kobolds had names- and had committed a bunch of crimes I made up on the spot. They also loved the fact that they got to kill a dragon…</p><p></p><p>I think getting them to name the bad guys, and colour them in was good move. Likewise I think getting them to shout things out every now and then was a good way to get them chatting- the scenario didn’t call for much role-play; although they did come up with some question in the penultimate encounter, when they got to interrogate the captured kobold dragonshield.</p><p></p><p>I think it was useful that most of the monsters were kobolds, or at least the same species- I worried at first thinking I should swap out a few of the kobolds for some other creatures, but this seemed to work, and the players got in to the idea of the kobold bandit gang.</p><p></p><p>I don’t think the kids are ready for anything too complex, particularly some of the younger players who are content to get off on hitting stuff and rolling odd-shaped dice every now and then- as often as possible really.</p><p></p><p>What is certain is they want to play again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goonalan, post: 6166203, member: 16069"] [CENTER][SIZE="5"]Let's Play #6 DMG Kobold Hall (Level 1)[/SIZE][/CENTER] Session 1. [CENTER][url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/40504969@N08/9368652276/][img]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3744/9368652276_8c0a9d1cd6_c.jpg[/img][/url][/CENTER] Encounter #5 The True Threat (Area 5.) [sblock=The Map] [CENTER] [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/40504969@N08/8721566354/][img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7284/8721566354_7fa891b962_b.jpg[/img][/url] The Kobold Hall [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/40504969@N08/8720426765/][img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7403/8720426765_18a4f1d59c_z.jpg[/img][/url] Area 5. The True Threat[/CENTER] [/sblock] Rested up the adventurers make their way through the secret door pointed out by their kobold dragonshield prisoner. In truth I had the last kobold surrender just so I could ensure that the players would get to find out about the final encounter. The adventurers move down a passage, its cold in here, and… the floor is covered in ice, and what’s that- Bharash screams. “DRAGON!” The adventurers halt- ahead, at the very edge of their light, is a massive pillar of stone- one of two in the chamber, snaking around the pillar is the neck and elongated neck of a dragon- a white dragon buy the look of things. Bad Guys 750 XP Level 3 Encounter Dragon White Young Level 3 Solo Brute [sblock=The Monster Manual] [CENTER][url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/40504969@N08/8720705801/][img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7403/8720705801_f216685f2c_z.jpg[/img][/url][/CENTER] [/sblock] “KILL IT!” More or less all of them scream. Quarion flings out a dagger and catches the great creature on the snout- the blade momentarily sticks in, splitting the dragon’s lip. “Thathhh not vewy sporthhing!” The white dragon lisps, and then lurches forward- at pace, the adventurers react. Harann and Bharash charge- Mr. Benn gets a little closer to the action, the dragonborns hack and slash at the great beast, both manage to cut and scar the dragon; Mr. Benn’s Gaze of Defiance leaves the creature momentarily a tiny bit frightened of its attackers. The moment passes very quickly. WHOOOOOOSH The group are engulfed in a storm of freezing fog and crackling shooting shards of ice, Mr. Benn is left quaking and numb, and very bloodied; nothing compared to Bharash however- the dragonborn warlord staggers almost unconscious. He feels… feels… nothing. RAAAAAAAARRRGH! The dragon rises to its full height, it must be ten or twelve feet tall balanced on its hind legs, it roars, a Frightful Presence. Quarion, Mr. Benn and Harann are left- stunned, unable to move, to speak, to… anything. Things are bad- really bad; I am certain I can see tears in the eyes of some of the kids- that’s four PCs out of the action (nearly). Bharash is reduced to 1 hit point, Quarion and Harann are stunned, and Mr. Benn is down to 8 hit points and is also stunned. The kids are going to have to pull out the stops to win this one. I really am a bad man. Varis fires an arrow, buries it in the dragon’s chest; the elf screams- “you don’t mess with my friends!” The dragon roars, half in pain- half in anger; Varis quickly shuffles away, around a corner and out of sight- the beast is furious. “Ooopsie!” The elf frets. Bharash mutters quietly to himself, some Inspiring Words, he breathes hard and settles for defending himself for the moment, he takes a moment to get his Second Wind, he also manages to throw off the numbness from the dragon’s cold attack. Bharash is ready and able to fight again- let’s hope he gets the chance. The dragon launches itself at the stunned Quarion hoping to take the eladrin down; the creature unleashes its Dragon’s Fury, and yet somehow manages only to cut Quarion once, and then to no great affect. Varis dodges back out and fires- arrow after arrow, four in all- three of which hit, the white dragon lurches and roars its anger. “I will deth-twoy yew alllllllll!” The creature states. Harann suddenly regains his senses, she sets about the dragon with her Villian’s Menace, although she fails to find her mark- not content she tries again, this time connects and slashes at the tendons on one of the dragon’s legs- it hobbles. Quarion suddenly disappears from before the dragon, clearly the eladrin is no longer stunned, the white dragon looks left, and then right- where did he go? The next moment the great beast screeches and half-turns, the eladrin’s dagger still stuck in its back. Bharash sees his opportunity and strikes with his Bastion of Defence. “For smash get mashed!” The dragonborn screams, the effect is instantaneous- the great drake is bloodied, it lurches and makes a noise like a choking roar- less anger, more hurt. The adventurers cheer, buoyed by Bharash’s words. WHOOOOSH The cheering is short-lived the dragon unleashes a winter ice storm, miraculously only Harann is affected by the cold, the dragonborn’s teeth chatter as she freezes. Bharash is having none of it- he slashes and cuts the beast again. Mr. Benn mutters Healing Words- to himself, his wounds heal over; his prayers continue until he seems to glow a little like a Beacon of Hope, the wounds of all of his allies heal over, while the white dragon staggers and lurches, weakened. Benn follows up by firing a Sacred Flames at the dragon. Just a note to say that the players have turned the tide, the dragon is only just bloodied- on 87 hit points, but is also weakened. The players are all now fairly healthy, at least none of them are bloodied, and they’re also unleashing a Daily power and Action Point frenzy. The dragon however is still a terrible foe, it unleashes its Dragon’s Fury on Harann, it attacks with both claws- slashing furiously, and then does the same again; somehow however Harann manages to defend all but one of the creature’s attacks, the one that gets through is no-more than a scratch. Varies fires again, the dragon sprouts two more arrows; it’s beginning to look like a giant pin-cushion. The creature roars and rises up- Harann dodges in and cuts with all her might, her Tide of Iron smashes the dragon back, straight in to Quarion’s path, the eladrin has a fresh dagger in hand- his Sly Flourish scores a terrible hit, ripping through the creature’s scales and deep in to its flesh. The dragon isn’t given time to thing, Bharash stabs it hard, it bleeds, Mr. Benn lights up the beast with his Divine Glow; it roars again, claws frantically and slashes Harann again, the dragonborn is however unconcerned, she roars back. “Too little, too late- Snowman!” Another arrow thuds in to the beast. It staggers and is caught again by Harann’s blade, another Tide of Iron knocking the creature back, back again in to Quarion’s arc, the eladrin slashes hard. The dragon moans. The dragon staggers. The dragon speaks- “That’s Mr. Snowman to youuaaarggghhhh…” The dragon dies. The adventurers have won. 750 XP Level 3 Encounter Dragon White Young Level 3 Solo Brute A search of the area reveals a bunch more gold coins, clearly the kobold bandits under the white dragon’s supervision have been busy. There’s also a magical sword to be had, which has to be taken back to Fallcrest to be identified- it’s a +1 Lifedrinker Longsword. None of the adventurers have any skills in Arcana. [CENTER][url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/40504969@N08/9366068031/][img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7409/9366068031_e3983f9d52_o.png[/img][/url] Bharash has a new sword…[/CENTER] And so having defeated the kobolds, with pockets full of treasure, and several sacks stuffed with ‘wanted’ dead kobolds; the guys head home. Comment: The hook is in, the kids didn’t have many problems to solve in this adventure, really they just had to learn the rules, or at least a few of them. They enjoyed the fact that several of the kobolds had names- and had committed a bunch of crimes I made up on the spot. They also loved the fact that they got to kill a dragon… I think getting them to name the bad guys, and colour them in was good move. Likewise I think getting them to shout things out every now and then was a good way to get them chatting- the scenario didn’t call for much role-play; although they did come up with some question in the penultimate encounter, when they got to interrogate the captured kobold dragonshield. I think it was useful that most of the monsters were kobolds, or at least the same species- I worried at first thinking I should swap out a few of the kobolds for some other creatures, but this seemed to work, and the players got in to the idea of the kobold bandit gang. I don’t think the kids are ready for anything too complex, particularly some of the younger players who are content to get off on hitting stuff and rolling odd-shaped dice every now and then- as often as possible really. What is certain is they want to play again. [/QUOTE]
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