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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7496736" data-attributes="member: 20323"><p>Here are the random encounter cards I created using this procedure (front & back) for the party's trek from Mezro to the Nsi Wastes following the River Olung:</p><p></p><p>[SBLOCK=Images of encounter cards]</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/M5ercX6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/TaFhdN7.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />[/SBLOCK]</p><p></p><p>Explanation of how I created these cards:</p><p></p><p><strong>Day 1:</strong> Players rolled <strong>no encounters</strong>. To keep things quick, I did not roll for alternate encounters (for navigation choice options). This would be an uneventful day. However, both because the PCs had already come this way heading north into Mezro (a bit of retreading familiar ground) & because Dragonbait is keeping a fast pace for his own reasons, I'm using this as an opportunity to shine some light on Dragonbait's character and to share travel pace options with the players (as we haven't discussed travel pace rules yet). In reaching Ataaz Muhaha (again), I'm giving them an option about when to cross: Either they can cross at night – risking ability checks from PCs without darkvision to safely cross, but getting a long rest – or they can wait to cross in the morning – not getting a long rest due to creepy laughter from gorge, but crossing safely automatically. </p><p></p><p><strong>Day 2:</strong> Players rolled <strong>AM – / PM chwinga / CAMP hadrosaurus</strong>. On my alternate encounters, I rolled <strong>AM aldani / PM – / CAMP giant crocodile</strong>. So, if any PCs fall down into river below Ataaz Muhahah and survive, they can meet some aldani (these guys can foreshadow information about the sanctuary on Day #7); if they're KO'ed the aldani may loot their body. With the chwinga, the PCs are swimming in scrolls from Mezro, so it's probably going to try to steal some of those, and I'm having it leave things that foreshadow what's to come on Day #6 (a Semuanya holy symbol & sacrificial knife from a PC's tribe) as well as a silly twisted common magic item I found online. Since my players want more loot! For the camp encounter, I'm having the hadrosaur herd stampeding towards PC camp because they've been spooked by a giant crocodile; this interrupts the party's long rest, helping to drive home that safe long rests are not guaranteed in the jungle.</p><p></p><p><strong>Day 3:</strong> Players rolled <strong>no encounters</strong>. I wanted to provide a navigation choice, so I rolled for alternate encounters: <strong>flying monkeys & dead explorer / assassin vine / Artus Cimber</strong>. I know I don't want to introduce Artus Cimber this early, so I'll drop a clue as to his having passed this way. A navigation choice: a dimly lit canyon shortcut marked with a stone trail marker OR a ridge trail with a corpse entangled in vines hanging over the edge where flying monkeys ransack the corpse. One way is easier, may save time, and discovers trail markers left by Artus Cimber. Other way is riskier but there's a little treasure (serpent venom & obsidian dagger) and a note/clue on the corpse foreshadowing Day #6 encounter.</p><p></p><p><strong>Day 4:</strong> Players rolled <strong>– / dimetrodon / faerie dragon</strong>. On my alternate encounters I rolled <strong>– / swarm of insects & flying snakes / –</strong>. Doing a bit of lore research, I learn about a faerie dragon named Zyx who befriended the mist dragon Cirrothamalan who claimed River Olung as its lair; because Cirrothamalan is intimately tied to one of the PC's backstories, I decide the faerie dragon is Zyx who is invisibly harassing the dimetrodons. Navigation choice: bypass erratic dimetrodons sunbathing in mudflats OR hop boulders across river hoping not to fall in. At night, Zyx will prank them and depending on their reaction they can gain useful information from the faerie dragon.</p><p></p><p><strong>Day 5:</strong> Players rolled <strong>Special</strong> (38 on <a href="https://amp.reddit.com/r/d100/comments/759iyr/d100_jungle_encounters/Reddit%20Jungle%20Encounters" target="_blank">Reddit Jungle Encounters</a> = giant stone head with flickering glowing eyes) <strong>/ – / –</strong>. On my alternate encounters I rolled <strong>aarakocra / giant snapping turtle / –.</strong> Opting to ignore the giant snapping turtle or include it elsewhere, I come up with another navigation choice: toward twin glowing lights down in the fog, or up steep climb to aarakocra shrine. I tie the giant head to a goblin PC's lineage descending from the Great Queen Mbobo. If aarakocra are summoned, they may be negotiated with to reveal aerial reconnaissance details (such as the exact location of the witch's lair in the Nsi Wastes) & will mention they're searching for the missing aarakocra Kiirk, foreshadowing that the hag has taken him captive.</p><p></p><p><strong>Day 6:</strong> Players rolled a <strong>Boss encounter / giant frogs / –</strong>. On my alternate encounters I rolled <strong>Emerald Enclave / – / –.</strong> I came up with the idea of a gemstone (using [MENTION=6789113]Jackdaw[/MENTION]'s idea about the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?653132-Troubleshooting-slow-narrative-(ToA-spoilers)/page2&p=7487845#post7487845" target="_blank">Primordial Diamond of Ubtao</a>, once given to the gods being the template from which the diamond ritual component for resurrection spells came, being used to power the Soulmonger) known as the "Zombie Killer Diamond", allegedly connected to the Primordial Diamond of Ubtao). The players have <em>hated</em> zombies' Undead Fortitude, so I wanted one of the properties of the diamond to destroy that trait for zombies in Chult...however that's a BIG win, so I wanted other ways it might be used to seem equally appealing...being able to track down a creature like a wight or necromancer that spawned a zombie? that's huge for the ranger PC who had to mercy kill his zombified wife!...and stopping the deterioration of sentient zombies created through Nanny Pupu's ritual (which PCs have yet to learn of). This is a BIG McGuffin. </p><p></p><p>Since the ranger PC was formerly involved with Emerald Enclave, this encounter would draw on his backstory heavily with a NPC gladiator named Enoch being the brother of PC's dead wife, and Enoch being exceedingly weary (having been hag-ridden previously, subtly hinting that he's evil aligned) and driven by vengeance. I also included a lizardfolk shaman from rival tribe of the lizardfolk rogue PC who foreshadows <a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/220608/Return-of-the-Lizard-King" target="_blank">Return of the Lizard King</a> (which I'll be running a twist on later). I threw in the guide Qawasha for good measure, since PCs have no guides now (and made enemies of Jobal, the merchant prince of guides). A rival group of NPCs with an ostensibly good purpose yet secret motives which can cause things to go pear-shaped. I placed the "Zombie Killer Diamond" in a waterfall temple of Ubtao – thanks to rolls on Noblecrumpet's Jungle Environment blog – with a guardian <strong>eidolon</strong> (<em>Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes</em>) inhabiting dinosaur statues. Even though my party is just 5th level (with few magic weapons) and the eidolon is CR 12, they have support from Dragonbait & a Mage, plus whoever in the Emerald Enclave they can sway to their side. Plus objective is not to destroy the Eidolon but to get the Diamond. All of this hopefully goes down like something out of an Indiana Jones movie. Oh, and swimming around the base of the waterfall? Giant frogs.</p><p></p><p>For treasure, I pick a <em>shield +1</em> (giving it a bonus to shove), a <em>magic seed</em> which grows a banyan tree, and a homebrew <em>Periapt of Blackness</em> (+1 saves and immune disease, but if ever unattuning you are exposed to a random disease; a belonging of the night hag which was given to Enoch). Not to mention the <em>Zombie Killer Diamond</em> itself!</p><p></p><p><strong>Day 7:</strong> Players rolled a <strong>Sanctuary</strong> (19 on <a href="http://slyflourish.com/lost_monuments_of_chult.html" target="_blank">Lost Monuments of Chult</a> = watery obelisk of Moa the jaculi)<strong> / – / aldani</strong>. OK, here's where I'll incorporate that giant snapping turtle I removed from Day #5! Players who reach the statue and place a clear gem in its mouth (or who roll astronomically good on Perception check) discover a sanctuary cave with Druidic inscriptions – for the grung druid PC – which explain how Sanctuaries work in my campaign, offer some new wildshapes, and hint at the Dance of the Seven Winds ritual in Kir Sabaal. Because the players rolled 2 yuan-ti encounters the next day, I'll have one yuan-ti pureblood in snake form (borrowing an optional trait from <em>Volo's Guide to Monsters</em>) spying on the Moa obelisk & cave, just waiting to trigger a cave-in. If PCs get trapped within, they can find watery tunnels out which are inhabited by an aldani who can guide them out, warning of a the giant snapping turtle that lurks therein.</p><p></p><p>There's no treasure in the sanctuary.</p><p></p><p><strong>Day 8:</strong> Players rolled <strong>yuan-ti / yuan-ti / –</strong>. For alternate encounters I rolled <strong>– / – / –</strong>. A tropical storm is going to hit in twilight hours before dawn, so I'll present PCs with option to hunker down & finish their long rest (but not get to scout surrounding area) OR suck it up and press onward (suffering exhaustion, but remaining alert). A party of yuan-ti – also headed for the Nsi Wastes, for reasons of their own hinting at Fenthaza's feud with Ras Nsi – will try to ambush them, either just outside of the sanctuary cave, or along the trail. However, because the PCs have a large enough party, the cowardly yuan-ti will just observe them on the trail...perhaps to meet again in the Nsi Wastes...</p><p></p><p>The yuan-ti malison has a geometric bronze gilded yuan-ti girdle worth 250 gp.</p><p></p><p><strong>Day 9:</strong> Players rolled <strong>– / dead explorer & Artus Cimber / Special</strong> (03). For alternate encounters I rolled <strong>– / eblis / swarm of quippers</strong>. I don't like the Special option (howling baboons attracting monsters), so I opted to use "The Raptor's Roost" from <a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/225854/Tomb-of-Annihilation-Companion" target="_blank">Tomb of Annihilation Companion</a> for the "Special" result, since it ties into my alternate roll of eblis, it provides a greedy monster the PCs might gain some treasure from (esp. <em>oil of etherealness</em> which may be critical for low-level PCs facing a night hag later on), and I just like the creepy feel of a village of giant hypnotic evil storks. So, another navigation choice: a flooded river bank (slower going, meet <em>courteous</em> eblis who are fishing quippers) or a cluttered tributary (faster but riskier, hints of goblin fight, optional route to Kir Sabaal). Both lead to a wrecked goblin encampment, dead gnome on a spit, and tracks hinting at Artus Cimber's recent presence. His tracks go toward "The Raptor's Roost", intent on taking revenge on the eblis who killed his adventurous acquaintances...</p><p></p><p>For the eblis lair, I went old school and rolled for Treasure Type U on the AD&D tables. After massaging a little, I ended up with 3 pearls (100 gp each), 12 coral agates (25gp each), silver necklace with moonstone (250 gp), six trinkets (which I'll roll for), 5 potions (frost giant strength, healing, growth, invulnerability, and oil of etherealness), a brass mosquito (from <a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/222869/Karnivs-Treasures-of-Chult--50-New-Magical-Items" target="_blank">Karnivs Treasures of Chult</a>), a <em>wand of fear</em>, and a <em>ring of delusion</em>!</p><p></p><p>I imagine Wamalāl, chief of the eblis (max. HP, <em>suggestion</em> 1/day, bonus action quaff potion), to be neurotically deluded that he is some kind of aristocracy bedecked in necklace, ring, awkwardly wielding a wand. He loves tricking creatures into being their own undoing. However, in a fight he may prove his own undoing, compulsively gargling down potions which mix in unpredictable ways.</p><p></p><p><strong>Day 10:</strong> Players rolled <strong>no encounters</strong>. For alternate encounters I rolled <strong>– / undead, skeletons / pteranodons & Flaming Fist</strong>. Hmm. I don't want more NPCs to get involved here (they've just met Artus at this point), want to keep it quick & snappy but provide interesting choices. I envisioned a section of the river with steep walls. There's an east wall filled with skeletons from a mudslide that killed a Flaming Fist troop bound for Shilku, and a west wall of pteranodon nests. The PCs can stealth through here and avoid any encounters. If they take the east bank and try to take something temptingly valuable from mudslide, skeletons animate and attack in large numbers (at this point the PCs have a CR 5 Dragonbait, CR 6 Mage, and CR 7 Artus Cimber accompanying them, so I can be mean and throw LOTS of skeletons). If they take the west bank (or having a flying mount), and they try to steal pteranodon eggs, subdue a pterandon to train, or otherwise annoy them, the pteranodons will make some dive bombing attacks before flying away.</p><p></p><p>At this point, the PCs will be about 2 days from Kir Sabaal / 2 days from the Nsi Wastes. I'll ignore rolling for encounters and just describe their travel for those days. In the Nsi Wastes, I'll either be creating a small custom encounter table or, more likely, handle their 1-to-2-day journey across the wastes narratively & quickly get them to Ras Nsi's Old Palace.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 7496736, member: 20323"] Here are the random encounter cards I created using this procedure (front & back) for the party's trek from Mezro to the Nsi Wastes following the River Olung: [SBLOCK=Images of encounter cards] [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/M5ercX6.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/TaFhdN7.jpg[/IMG][/SBLOCK] Explanation of how I created these cards: [B]Day 1:[/B] Players rolled [B]no encounters[/B]. To keep things quick, I did not roll for alternate encounters (for navigation choice options). This would be an uneventful day. However, both because the PCs had already come this way heading north into Mezro (a bit of retreading familiar ground) & because Dragonbait is keeping a fast pace for his own reasons, I'm using this as an opportunity to shine some light on Dragonbait's character and to share travel pace options with the players (as we haven't discussed travel pace rules yet). In reaching Ataaz Muhaha (again), I'm giving them an option about when to cross: Either they can cross at night – risking ability checks from PCs without darkvision to safely cross, but getting a long rest – or they can wait to cross in the morning – not getting a long rest due to creepy laughter from gorge, but crossing safely automatically. [B]Day 2:[/B] Players rolled [B]AM – / PM chwinga / CAMP hadrosaurus[/B]. On my alternate encounters, I rolled [B]AM aldani / PM – / CAMP giant crocodile[/B]. So, if any PCs fall down into river below Ataaz Muhahah and survive, they can meet some aldani (these guys can foreshadow information about the sanctuary on Day #7); if they're KO'ed the aldani may loot their body. With the chwinga, the PCs are swimming in scrolls from Mezro, so it's probably going to try to steal some of those, and I'm having it leave things that foreshadow what's to come on Day #6 (a Semuanya holy symbol & sacrificial knife from a PC's tribe) as well as a silly twisted common magic item I found online. Since my players want more loot! For the camp encounter, I'm having the hadrosaur herd stampeding towards PC camp because they've been spooked by a giant crocodile; this interrupts the party's long rest, helping to drive home that safe long rests are not guaranteed in the jungle. [B]Day 3:[/B] Players rolled [B]no encounters[/B]. I wanted to provide a navigation choice, so I rolled for alternate encounters: [B]flying monkeys & dead explorer / assassin vine / Artus Cimber[/B]. I know I don't want to introduce Artus Cimber this early, so I'll drop a clue as to his having passed this way. A navigation choice: a dimly lit canyon shortcut marked with a stone trail marker OR a ridge trail with a corpse entangled in vines hanging over the edge where flying monkeys ransack the corpse. One way is easier, may save time, and discovers trail markers left by Artus Cimber. Other way is riskier but there's a little treasure (serpent venom & obsidian dagger) and a note/clue on the corpse foreshadowing Day #6 encounter. [B]Day 4:[/B] Players rolled [B]– / dimetrodon / faerie dragon[/B]. On my alternate encounters I rolled [B]– / swarm of insects & flying snakes / –[/B]. Doing a bit of lore research, I learn about a faerie dragon named Zyx who befriended the mist dragon Cirrothamalan who claimed River Olung as its lair; because Cirrothamalan is intimately tied to one of the PC's backstories, I decide the faerie dragon is Zyx who is invisibly harassing the dimetrodons. Navigation choice: bypass erratic dimetrodons sunbathing in mudflats OR hop boulders across river hoping not to fall in. At night, Zyx will prank them and depending on their reaction they can gain useful information from the faerie dragon. [B]Day 5:[/B] Players rolled [B]Special[/B] (38 on [url=https://amp.reddit.com/r/d100/comments/759iyr/d100_jungle_encounters/Reddit%20Jungle%20Encounters]Reddit Jungle Encounters[/url] = giant stone head with flickering glowing eyes) [B]/ – / –[/B]. On my alternate encounters I rolled [B]aarakocra / giant snapping turtle / –.[/B] Opting to ignore the giant snapping turtle or include it elsewhere, I come up with another navigation choice: toward twin glowing lights down in the fog, or up steep climb to aarakocra shrine. I tie the giant head to a goblin PC's lineage descending from the Great Queen Mbobo. If aarakocra are summoned, they may be negotiated with to reveal aerial reconnaissance details (such as the exact location of the witch's lair in the Nsi Wastes) & will mention they're searching for the missing aarakocra Kiirk, foreshadowing that the hag has taken him captive. [B]Day 6:[/B] Players rolled a [B]Boss encounter / giant frogs / –[/B]. On my alternate encounters I rolled [B]Emerald Enclave / – / –.[/B] I came up with the idea of a gemstone (using [MENTION=6789113]Jackdaw[/MENTION]'s idea about the [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?653132-Troubleshooting-slow-narrative-(ToA-spoilers)/page2&p=7487845#post7487845]Primordial Diamond of Ubtao[/url], once given to the gods being the template from which the diamond ritual component for resurrection spells came, being used to power the Soulmonger) known as the "Zombie Killer Diamond", allegedly connected to the Primordial Diamond of Ubtao). The players have [I]hated[/I] zombies' Undead Fortitude, so I wanted one of the properties of the diamond to destroy that trait for zombies in Chult...however that's a BIG win, so I wanted other ways it might be used to seem equally appealing...being able to track down a creature like a wight or necromancer that spawned a zombie? that's huge for the ranger PC who had to mercy kill his zombified wife!...and stopping the deterioration of sentient zombies created through Nanny Pupu's ritual (which PCs have yet to learn of). This is a BIG McGuffin. Since the ranger PC was formerly involved with Emerald Enclave, this encounter would draw on his backstory heavily with a NPC gladiator named Enoch being the brother of PC's dead wife, and Enoch being exceedingly weary (having been hag-ridden previously, subtly hinting that he's evil aligned) and driven by vengeance. I also included a lizardfolk shaman from rival tribe of the lizardfolk rogue PC who foreshadows [url=https://www.dmsguild.com/product/220608/Return-of-the-Lizard-King]Return of the Lizard King[/url] (which I'll be running a twist on later). I threw in the guide Qawasha for good measure, since PCs have no guides now (and made enemies of Jobal, the merchant prince of guides). A rival group of NPCs with an ostensibly good purpose yet secret motives which can cause things to go pear-shaped. I placed the "Zombie Killer Diamond" in a waterfall temple of Ubtao – thanks to rolls on Noblecrumpet's Jungle Environment blog – with a guardian [B]eidolon[/B] ([I]Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes[/I]) inhabiting dinosaur statues. Even though my party is just 5th level (with few magic weapons) and the eidolon is CR 12, they have support from Dragonbait & a Mage, plus whoever in the Emerald Enclave they can sway to their side. Plus objective is not to destroy the Eidolon but to get the Diamond. All of this hopefully goes down like something out of an Indiana Jones movie. Oh, and swimming around the base of the waterfall? Giant frogs. For treasure, I pick a [I]shield +1[/I] (giving it a bonus to shove), a [I]magic seed[/I] which grows a banyan tree, and a homebrew [I]Periapt of Blackness[/I] (+1 saves and immune disease, but if ever unattuning you are exposed to a random disease; a belonging of the night hag which was given to Enoch). Not to mention the [I]Zombie Killer Diamond[/I] itself! [B]Day 7:[/B] Players rolled a [B]Sanctuary[/B] (19 on [url=http://slyflourish.com/lost_monuments_of_chult.html]Lost Monuments of Chult[/url] = watery obelisk of Moa the jaculi)[B] / – / aldani[/B]. OK, here's where I'll incorporate that giant snapping turtle I removed from Day #5! Players who reach the statue and place a clear gem in its mouth (or who roll astronomically good on Perception check) discover a sanctuary cave with Druidic inscriptions – for the grung druid PC – which explain how Sanctuaries work in my campaign, offer some new wildshapes, and hint at the Dance of the Seven Winds ritual in Kir Sabaal. Because the players rolled 2 yuan-ti encounters the next day, I'll have one yuan-ti pureblood in snake form (borrowing an optional trait from [I]Volo's Guide to Monsters[/I]) spying on the Moa obelisk & cave, just waiting to trigger a cave-in. If PCs get trapped within, they can find watery tunnels out which are inhabited by an aldani who can guide them out, warning of a the giant snapping turtle that lurks therein. There's no treasure in the sanctuary. [B]Day 8:[/B] Players rolled [B]yuan-ti / yuan-ti / –[/B]. For alternate encounters I rolled [B]– / – / –[/B]. A tropical storm is going to hit in twilight hours before dawn, so I'll present PCs with option to hunker down & finish their long rest (but not get to scout surrounding area) OR suck it up and press onward (suffering exhaustion, but remaining alert). A party of yuan-ti – also headed for the Nsi Wastes, for reasons of their own hinting at Fenthaza's feud with Ras Nsi – will try to ambush them, either just outside of the sanctuary cave, or along the trail. However, because the PCs have a large enough party, the cowardly yuan-ti will just observe them on the trail...perhaps to meet again in the Nsi Wastes... The yuan-ti malison has a geometric bronze gilded yuan-ti girdle worth 250 gp. [B]Day 9:[/B] Players rolled [B]– / dead explorer & Artus Cimber / Special[/B] (03). For alternate encounters I rolled [B]– / eblis / swarm of quippers[/B]. I don't like the Special option (howling baboons attracting monsters), so I opted to use "The Raptor's Roost" from [url=https://www.dmsguild.com/product/225854/Tomb-of-Annihilation-Companion]Tomb of Annihilation Companion[/url] for the "Special" result, since it ties into my alternate roll of eblis, it provides a greedy monster the PCs might gain some treasure from (esp. [I]oil of etherealness[/I] which may be critical for low-level PCs facing a night hag later on), and I just like the creepy feel of a village of giant hypnotic evil storks. So, another navigation choice: a flooded river bank (slower going, meet [I]courteous[/I] eblis who are fishing quippers) or a cluttered tributary (faster but riskier, hints of goblin fight, optional route to Kir Sabaal). Both lead to a wrecked goblin encampment, dead gnome on a spit, and tracks hinting at Artus Cimber's recent presence. His tracks go toward "The Raptor's Roost", intent on taking revenge on the eblis who killed his adventurous acquaintances... For the eblis lair, I went old school and rolled for Treasure Type U on the AD&D tables. After massaging a little, I ended up with 3 pearls (100 gp each), 12 coral agates (25gp each), silver necklace with moonstone (250 gp), six trinkets (which I'll roll for), 5 potions (frost giant strength, healing, growth, invulnerability, and oil of etherealness), a brass mosquito (from [url=https://www.dmsguild.com/product/222869/Karnivs-Treasures-of-Chult--50-New-Magical-Items]Karnivs Treasures of Chult[/url]), a [I]wand of fear[/I], and a [I]ring of delusion[/I]! I imagine Wamalāl, chief of the eblis (max. HP, [I]suggestion[/I] 1/day, bonus action quaff potion), to be neurotically deluded that he is some kind of aristocracy bedecked in necklace, ring, awkwardly wielding a wand. He loves tricking creatures into being their own undoing. However, in a fight he may prove his own undoing, compulsively gargling down potions which mix in unpredictable ways. [B]Day 10:[/B] Players rolled [B]no encounters[/B]. For alternate encounters I rolled [B]– / undead, skeletons / pteranodons & Flaming Fist[/B]. Hmm. I don't want more NPCs to get involved here (they've just met Artus at this point), want to keep it quick & snappy but provide interesting choices. I envisioned a section of the river with steep walls. There's an east wall filled with skeletons from a mudslide that killed a Flaming Fist troop bound for Shilku, and a west wall of pteranodon nests. The PCs can stealth through here and avoid any encounters. If they take the east bank and try to take something temptingly valuable from mudslide, skeletons animate and attack in large numbers (at this point the PCs have a CR 5 Dragonbait, CR 6 Mage, and CR 7 Artus Cimber accompanying them, so I can be mean and throw LOTS of skeletons). If they take the west bank (or having a flying mount), and they try to steal pteranodon eggs, subdue a pterandon to train, or otherwise annoy them, the pteranodons will make some dive bombing attacks before flying away. At this point, the PCs will be about 2 days from Kir Sabaal / 2 days from the Nsi Wastes. I'll ignore rolling for encounters and just describe their travel for those days. In the Nsi Wastes, I'll either be creating a small custom encounter table or, more likely, handle their 1-to-2-day journey across the wastes narratively & quickly get them to Ras Nsi's Old Palace. [/QUOTE]
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