Who are the Harpells of Longsaddle?

[diaglo]

iirc, one of them gets

Spoiler

killed

in the battle with the drow.

 

[Henry]

Howabout their contribution to the battle of Mithril Hall

My favorite scene in the battle for Mithril Hall came in the form of the most creative use of a polymorph spell I've ever seen. Harkle and another Harpell used some variant of Polymorph self to transplant their brains with their gluteous maximus fat.

Yes, that's what I said.

When the Mind flayers charged in and brain-blasted them, not only were their brains out of reach, but the mind-flayers lodged in to suck brain matter and got...

...well...

You get the idea.

Old Bob's a Power-gamer of the first order, he is!

 

[dreaded_beast]

Hehe, cool. I think I remember reading about that somewhere Henry.

Some people believe that a majority of the Harpells are Wild Mages and sorcerers, to reflect their "unique" spellcasting ability. I was intrigued by that and then remembered coming accross the Wild Magic Feat an PrC on the SKR website. Very interesting.

If you had to stat out the Harpells, or at least give them levels, what would you give them?

 

[kuje31]

Adanac Harpell is a 9th level mage according to the City of Splendors box set in the campaign book. He is the patriarch of the family.

Malchor Harpell is a 20th level mage who is also in the City of Splendors box set in the Who's Who in Waterdeep book.

 

[ruleslawyer]

I'd check out Volo's Guide to the North or The North boxed set. Both of these products are available FOR FREE at:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads

In general, I'd say the Harpells would scale up to about 9th-11th level, but not beyond that (with the exception of Malchor and Alastra Hathwinter, whom I'd lower from a Wiz21 [more powerful than Malchor!] to about a Wiz15). IMHO, they shouldn't be the Red Wizards of Thay packed into a convenient family-sized package, but more a bunch of eccentric hedge wizards; their levels don't really need to be high.

 

[Parchone]

The Harpell's are very eccentric and powerful prone to the occasional mishap. There are a lot of magical wonders in Longsaddle including a river that runs uphill, the Overunder bridge (twists all the way around but has a gravity effect that lets you easily travel from one side or the other, and the Puddlejumpers (horse frog crossbreed). The have also been know to shrink their cows to cut down on feed and then enlarge them when its time to slaughter them. Their home is known as the Ivy mansion. I have played a Harpell in every edition but first I find them to be great if highly eccentric PC's

 

[Ovinomancer]

Congrats on your first post resurrecting a 12 year old post!

 

[Parchone]

I like the Harpells what can I say

 

[Parchone]

Also you did not have to be a snarky asshat about it either.

 

[FezzieModo]

to be fair Ive just come across this and I am looking to expand longsaddle and stat out longsaddle for a 5e campaign following on from phandelver and found Parchone's response to be quite informative, thanks Parchone