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<blockquote data-quote="bluesfella" data-source="post: 5482899" data-attributes="member: 98561"><p>Mr. Fairweather gave them the task of discovering why the weather has been so unpredictable lately. "As you may know, we had a blizzard yesterday!" It's been bitter cold for an hour or two, then will get mild again, then will start snowing. This will wreak havoc on the crops, as it's not time for the harvest yet...and Fallcrest may have a very tough winter if this continues.</p><p></p><p>The group did some research - talking to merchants about where the storms seem most severe, investigating at the various temples to see if any prophecies are coming to pass, and even going to see the head of the Mage's guild to see if he can determine if the storm is magical or natural. They determined that it is in fact magical, and that the source seems to be somewhere north of town.</p><p></p><p>They visited Glimzig the gnome, and managed to obtain passage in his "airship" to scout out the area north of Fallcrest.</p><p></p><p>[GM]The airship is really nothing more than a hot air balloon. The only difference is that the heat comes from a small container wherein Glimzig has cast the "Traveler's Fire" ritual, and fashioned a fairly simple mechanical device that covers and uncovers the container to regulate the heat output.[/GM]</p><p></p><p>Once they were in the air, they could tell that the storm clouds, while exceedingly think and cold, were very thin did not go very high at all. They were soon speeding towards the Winterbole Forest, where it looked like they may find some answers.</p><p></p><p>As the neared the edge of the forest, two blue goblins "landed" on the front of the balloon's airbag, pulled out daggers, and began to shred it. As they group was reacting to this and making their way to the edge of the platform to engage the strange goblins, two more appeared and began to damage the airship as well. The group managed to kill them all rather quickly, but not before the balloon began to plummet. They fell through the cloud cover and crashed into the frozen plain below. They were all thrown two squares forward and knocked prone, except those that succeeded on a medium DC Athletics check.</p><p></p><p>They recovered just in time to see more than a dozen of these small blue goblins, and a great big one standing in their midst. Before they could brace for an attack, the big goblin scooped up a couple more of his minions and threw them right at the Paladin. The battle was on!</p><p></p><p>[GM]This encounter was a fun one - my own home-brewed "Frost Goblin" was actually based on a simple Goblin Skullcleaver (level 3 brute), but the fact that he was huge, and threw 2-4 goblin minions at the players at a time really made an impact. (Pun intended.) This ended up being a level 3 encounter, but was easier than it sounds, because most of them were minions. That being said, they did have to work pretty hard, and we had three players drop to 0 before the end of the encounter. When the minions hit, they caused damage, and were put in flanking positions. They had a hard time keeping up with them![/GM]</p><p></p><p>This was the end of session #1. This was about a 4.5 - 5 hour session.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bluesfella, post: 5482899, member: 98561"] Mr. Fairweather gave them the task of discovering why the weather has been so unpredictable lately. "As you may know, we had a blizzard yesterday!" It's been bitter cold for an hour or two, then will get mild again, then will start snowing. This will wreak havoc on the crops, as it's not time for the harvest yet...and Fallcrest may have a very tough winter if this continues. The group did some research - talking to merchants about where the storms seem most severe, investigating at the various temples to see if any prophecies are coming to pass, and even going to see the head of the Mage's guild to see if he can determine if the storm is magical or natural. They determined that it is in fact magical, and that the source seems to be somewhere north of town. They visited Glimzig the gnome, and managed to obtain passage in his "airship" to scout out the area north of Fallcrest. [GM]The airship is really nothing more than a hot air balloon. The only difference is that the heat comes from a small container wherein Glimzig has cast the "Traveler's Fire" ritual, and fashioned a fairly simple mechanical device that covers and uncovers the container to regulate the heat output.[/GM] Once they were in the air, they could tell that the storm clouds, while exceedingly think and cold, were very thin did not go very high at all. They were soon speeding towards the Winterbole Forest, where it looked like they may find some answers. As the neared the edge of the forest, two blue goblins "landed" on the front of the balloon's airbag, pulled out daggers, and began to shred it. As they group was reacting to this and making their way to the edge of the platform to engage the strange goblins, two more appeared and began to damage the airship as well. The group managed to kill them all rather quickly, but not before the balloon began to plummet. They fell through the cloud cover and crashed into the frozen plain below. They were all thrown two squares forward and knocked prone, except those that succeeded on a medium DC Athletics check. They recovered just in time to see more than a dozen of these small blue goblins, and a great big one standing in their midst. Before they could brace for an attack, the big goblin scooped up a couple more of his minions and threw them right at the Paladin. The battle was on! [GM]This encounter was a fun one - my own home-brewed "Frost Goblin" was actually based on a simple Goblin Skullcleaver (level 3 brute), but the fact that he was huge, and threw 2-4 goblin minions at the players at a time really made an impact. (Pun intended.) This ended up being a level 3 encounter, but was easier than it sounds, because most of them were minions. That being said, they did have to work pretty hard, and we had three players drop to 0 before the end of the encounter. When the minions hit, they caused damage, and were put in flanking positions. They had a hard time keeping up with them![/GM] This was the end of session #1. This was about a 4.5 - 5 hour session. [/QUOTE]
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