Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Demetrios1453 Plays the Gold Box Games
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 9316712" data-attributes="member: 6801060"><p><strong><em>Pool of Radiance </em>(Part 41): The Lizardman Keep (Part 3) - Lizardman Keep completed!</strong></p><p></p><p>We continue to move around the lower level, exploring pools.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357878[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Yes we do.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357879[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Yes we do.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357880[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>No magical items this time, just money. In fact, this is the same amount of money we've gotten along with the magical items in the previous pools. Even though there's nothing else, it's nothing to sneeze at, and still provides some nice XP for each batch we find.</p><p></p><p>On to the next pool...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357881[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>We do, and find...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357882[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Basically at this point, there are no further magic items to find, just the money. We'll just explore around until we've explored all the pools.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357883[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]357884[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]357885[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Each of them giving the same 1 gem, 1000 gp, and 1000 sp.</p><p></p><p>Except when we get to this last pool, and try to take the treasure, it won't let us take it all...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357886[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]357887[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Encumbrance, our undefeatable foe!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357888[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>We pretty much have to leave it, although luckily it was just some silver and this was the last pool to explore.</p><p></p><p>The real issue now is getting back to Phlan. Everyone will be reduced to 3 movement in any random encounters we may trigger, which definitely won't be to our advantage.</p><p></p><p>Having found all the pools down here and looted as much as possible, we return to the surface.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357889[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Up we go!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357890[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>We rest up before we leave, even though we haven't taken much damage. It can't hurt heading back to the boat at full strength.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357891[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>One quick Fix later, we head out of here.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357892[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]357893[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>We leave and head southward.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357894[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Ugh, not good. And when the actual combat loads, it's <em>six</em> wyverns! With my characters encumbered and their poison sting attacks being basically insta-death in 1e, I nope out of that quickly and re-load (so fast that I didn't even get a screenshot, sorry). We had enough trouble with just a single one a short time ago, so fighting six... well, I have no desire to deal with dragging what will likely be at least one or two incapacitated characters back to the boat and Phlan.</p><p></p><p>So, I reload to the last save (at the lizardman keep when I was resting), and start back down again.</p><p></p><p>Again, we have an encounter along the way...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357895[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Much less troublesome!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357896[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]357897[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>We basically wait and let them move up to us (not that I have much choice with my movement at 3 due to the encumbrance). With the logs right in front of us, it's going to be hard for them to maneuver well.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357898[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]357899[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I basically have them blocked off with those logs there, so my melee can swing away while my ranged shoot them as they approach. And its' over pretty quickly...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357900[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The party took a little bit of damage, but nothing terrible.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357901[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>We head onward towards the ship. But just before we can get there...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357902[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>This one is going to be a bit tougher. Not as bad as six wyverns would have been, but still not a walkover...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357903[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Again, we'll let them move towards us, because being fully encumbered we really don't have much of a choice...</p><p></p><p>Bragir has a plan to deal with them quickly...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357904[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>But... one of the trolls deals with that threat very quickly...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357905[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Yep, he got around and thwacked Bragir, making him lose the spell while casting. What rotten luck!</p><p></p><p>I guess we'll have to deal with them the old-fashioned way, with lots of swords and arrows...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357906[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Bragir has to switch to melee due to the troll breathing down his neck...</p><p></p><p>They're all over the place now, and it's hard to get characters around to reach them. Baroness Bella, with her 3 movement, got into that position next to the troll, but had no movement left to attack it.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357907[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]357908[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>We whittle then down slowly...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357909[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Bant finally takes down the last one...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357910[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>But they've actually hurt the party (notably Bragir) fairly significantly. At least the XP was good...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357912[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>We finally make it back to the boat.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357913[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>And we head back to Phlan.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357914[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Usually, we'll head right to the City Clerk, but if we do, since we're carrying as much money as we can, we would lose any reward given to us. So we'll head to the shop first to sell our surplus items and then consolidate our coin to free up encumbrance so we can actually pick up our reward.</p><p></p><p>Again, it's just a few minutes before 00:00, so we can just walk around town until the shop opens.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357915[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]357916[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]357917[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Nice. After consolidating our coins, this is what our current funds look like:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357918[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Well, that's enough for us to get a new fine longbow, so off we go to the silver shop.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357919[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]357920[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>And Bant now has a fine longbow. Only Brother Baltor is left.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357922[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Funds after we've purchased the fine longbow:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357928[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Now it's off to the City Clerk to refill our reduced coffers!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357924[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]357925[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]357926[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Not bad at all.</p><p></p><p>And... shockingly, after she mentions the reward to rescue the heir to House Bivant... she doesn't have any more commissions to give us! We've gotten to the point in the game where we've basically exhausted the missions she has for us. We still have the Zhent base and the graveyard to do as well, but this shows us that we're getting close to the endgame...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357927[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>We head off to the inn to rest and heal up.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]357929[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Next up, the Buccaneer Base, where the heir of House Bivant is being held!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Demetrios1453, post: 9316712, member: 6801060"] [B][I]Pool of Radiance [/I](Part 41): The Lizardman Keep (Part 3) - Lizardman Keep completed![/B] We continue to move around the lower level, exploring pools. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 224928.png"]357878[/ATTACH] Yes we do. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 224936.png"]357879[/ATTACH] Yes we do. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 224948.png"]357880[/ATTACH] No magical items this time, just money. In fact, this is the same amount of money we've gotten along with the magical items in the previous pools. Even though there's nothing else, it's nothing to sneeze at, and still provides some nice XP for each batch we find. On to the next pool... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 225046.png"]357881[/ATTACH] We do, and find... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 225105.png"]357882[/ATTACH] Basically at this point, there are no further magic items to find, just the money. We'll just explore around until we've explored all the pools. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 225141.png"]357883[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 225258.png"]357884[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 225344.png"]357885[/ATTACH] Each of them giving the same 1 gem, 1000 gp, and 1000 sp. Except when we get to this last pool, and try to take the treasure, it won't let us take it all... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 225412.png"]357886[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 225441.png"]357887[/ATTACH] Encumbrance, our undefeatable foe! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 225450.png"]357888[/ATTACH] We pretty much have to leave it, although luckily it was just some silver and this was the last pool to explore. The real issue now is getting back to Phlan. Everyone will be reduced to 3 movement in any random encounters we may trigger, which definitely won't be to our advantage. Having found all the pools down here and looted as much as possible, we return to the surface. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 225526.png"]357889[/ATTACH] Up we go! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 225541.png"]357890[/ATTACH] We rest up before we leave, even though we haven't taken much damage. It can't hurt heading back to the boat at full strength. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 225603.png"]357891[/ATTACH] One quick Fix later, we head out of here. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 225632.png"]357892[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 225652.png"]357893[/ATTACH] We leave and head southward. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 225723.png"]357894[/ATTACH] Ugh, not good. And when the actual combat loads, it's [I]six[/I] wyverns! With my characters encumbered and their poison sting attacks being basically insta-death in 1e, I nope out of that quickly and re-load (so fast that I didn't even get a screenshot, sorry). We had enough trouble with just a single one a short time ago, so fighting six... well, I have no desire to deal with dragging what will likely be at least one or two incapacitated characters back to the boat and Phlan. So, I reload to the last save (at the lizardman keep when I was resting), and start back down again. Again, we have an encounter along the way... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 225933.png"]357895[/ATTACH] Much less troublesome! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 225947.png"]357896[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 230044.png"]357897[/ATTACH] We basically wait and let them move up to us (not that I have much choice with my movement at 3 due to the encumbrance). With the logs right in front of us, it's going to be hard for them to maneuver well. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 230120.png"]357898[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 230222.png"]357899[/ATTACH] I basically have them blocked off with those logs there, so my melee can swing away while my ranged shoot them as they approach. And its' over pretty quickly... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 230311.png"]357900[/ATTACH] The party took a little bit of damage, but nothing terrible. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 230328.png"]357901[/ATTACH] We head onward towards the ship. But just before we can get there... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 230401.png"]357902[/ATTACH] This one is going to be a bit tougher. Not as bad as six wyverns would have been, but still not a walkover... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 230435.png"]357903[/ATTACH] Again, we'll let them move towards us, because being fully encumbered we really don't have much of a choice... Bragir has a plan to deal with them quickly... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 230539.png"]357904[/ATTACH] But... one of the trolls deals with that threat very quickly... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 230615.png"]357905[/ATTACH] Yep, he got around and thwacked Bragir, making him lose the spell while casting. What rotten luck! I guess we'll have to deal with them the old-fashioned way, with lots of swords and arrows... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 230649.png"]357906[/ATTACH] Bragir has to switch to melee due to the troll breathing down his neck... They're all over the place now, and it's hard to get characters around to reach them. Baroness Bella, with her 3 movement, got into that position next to the troll, but had no movement left to attack it. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 230730.png"]357907[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 230801.png"]357908[/ATTACH] We whittle then down slowly... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 230840.png"]357909[/ATTACH] Bant finally takes down the last one... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 230924.png"]357910[/ATTACH] But they've actually hurt the party (notably Bragir) fairly significantly. At least the XP was good... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 230951.png"]357912[/ATTACH] We finally make it back to the boat. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 231018.png"]357913[/ATTACH] And we head back to Phlan. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 231029.png"]357914[/ATTACH] Usually, we'll head right to the City Clerk, but if we do, since we're carrying as much money as we can, we would lose any reward given to us. So we'll head to the shop first to sell our surplus items and then consolidate our coin to free up encumbrance so we can actually pick up our reward. Again, it's just a few minutes before 00:00, so we can just walk around town until the shop opens. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 231343.png"]357915[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 231402.png"]357916[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 231416.png"]357917[/ATTACH] Nice. After consolidating our coins, this is what our current funds look like: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 231547.png"]357918[/ATTACH] Well, that's enough for us to get a new fine longbow, so off we go to the silver shop. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 231605.png"]357919[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 231620.png"]357920[/ATTACH] And Bant now has a fine longbow. Only Brother Baltor is left. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 231637.png"]357922[/ATTACH] Funds after we've purchased the fine longbow: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 231645.png"]357928[/ATTACH] Now it's off to the City Clerk to refill our reduced coffers! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 231723.png"]357924[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 231730.png"]357925[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 231745.png"]357926[/ATTACH] Not bad at all. And... shockingly, after she mentions the reward to rescue the heir to House Bivant... she doesn't have any more commissions to give us! We've gotten to the point in the game where we've basically exhausted the missions she has for us. We still have the Zhent base and the graveyard to do as well, but this shows us that we're getting close to the endgame... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 231805.png"]357927[/ATTACH] We head off to the inn to rest and heal up. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-11 231916.png"]357929[/ATTACH] Next up, the Buccaneer Base, where the heir of House Bivant is being held! [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Demetrios1453 Plays the Gold Box Games
Top