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Unattainable Ideal
Okay, so last session on Barsoom I may have gotten a little carried away.
Our heroes are part of a caravan making its way across the savage plains of Yshaka, where dino-riding barbarians make it their sacred duty to wipe out those who dare tread where they are unwelcome.
So the first wave comes in the form of a hundred or so warriors mounted on velociraptors, sweeping through a caravan of eight three-story armoured wagons towed by pairs of brachiosaurs. Well, with the advantage of position and lots of funky abilities, our heroes manage to drive off that attack with no loss of hit points on their end whatsoever.
I was a little cheesed about that, I admit. Maybe I'm a bad person.
Anyway, it was getting on for midnight and I was pretty well done, but they were all so complacent and "We rock," and everything, and so I rolled and got a barbarian attack encounter a couple of days later, and on whim decided to roll a d20 to establish the size of the attack.
I got a natural 20 on that roll. So it had to be big.
So basically as I was wrapping things up I said, "Oh, and you see forms approaching from all sides. Looks like hundreds of chasmosaurs and T-Rexes converging on your caravan. Being ridden by lots of crazed barbarians. See you next week."
It was a great ending cliffhanger.
Only now what?
There are three tribes of warriors, the Raptors, the Serpents and the Wind. The Raptors are the guys who ride velociraptors (natch), but there's no necessary connection between the tribe names and their mounts, so these guys could be of two tribes or just one. Dunno. Anyway, our heroes are 14th level and so kick pretty reasonable amounts of butt, but even so HUNDREDS of T-Rexes and potentially THOUSANDS of barbarians are a little beyond their means.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Snarky comments?
Our heroes are part of a caravan making its way across the savage plains of Yshaka, where dino-riding barbarians make it their sacred duty to wipe out those who dare tread where they are unwelcome.
So the first wave comes in the form of a hundred or so warriors mounted on velociraptors, sweeping through a caravan of eight three-story armoured wagons towed by pairs of brachiosaurs. Well, with the advantage of position and lots of funky abilities, our heroes manage to drive off that attack with no loss of hit points on their end whatsoever.
I was a little cheesed about that, I admit. Maybe I'm a bad person.
Anyway, it was getting on for midnight and I was pretty well done, but they were all so complacent and "We rock," and everything, and so I rolled and got a barbarian attack encounter a couple of days later, and on whim decided to roll a d20 to establish the size of the attack.
I got a natural 20 on that roll. So it had to be big.
So basically as I was wrapping things up I said, "Oh, and you see forms approaching from all sides. Looks like hundreds of chasmosaurs and T-Rexes converging on your caravan. Being ridden by lots of crazed barbarians. See you next week."
It was a great ending cliffhanger.
Only now what?
There are three tribes of warriors, the Raptors, the Serpents and the Wind. The Raptors are the guys who ride velociraptors (natch), but there's no necessary connection between the tribe names and their mounts, so these guys could be of two tribes or just one. Dunno. Anyway, our heroes are 14th level and so kick pretty reasonable amounts of butt, but even so HUNDREDS of T-Rexes and potentially THOUSANDS of barbarians are a little beyond their means.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Snarky comments?
