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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drazulfel" data-source="post: 5277222" data-attributes="member: 43826"> <a href="http://draz01keepontheshadowfell.blogspot.com/2010/08/sunday-26th-anyas-528-nr-mid-afternoon_07.html" target="_blank">Sunday, 26th Anyas, 528 NR, Mid-afternoon, Part Two</a>      The heroes recognized that this new threat might be more than they could  handle, if they didn't act quickly to thin the ranks of the kobolds.  Immediately, like a well-oiled machine, they combined their efforts to  take down one of the powerful skirmishers. Paget fired off a Magic  Missile towards the spear-wielding lizardman that was closest to him,  but the nimble creature dodged aside and the energy dart sliced  harmlessly into the western cavern wall. The defensive maneuver caused  the kobold to whirl around just in time to meet Paget's twin daggers,  which tore into its gut with a precision Positioning Strike, driving it  towards Phoebe and Gildras. They were waiting with readied attacks!  Phoebe's Healing Strike missed the skirmisher, but invigorated her dwarf  companion who quickly positioned himself for a killing blow. Gildras  lunged at the kobold with his longsword, and cut it deeply as he invoked  his Wolfpack Tactics to drive the creature towards Bakbuk's readied  maul. The fighter's hammer came down, and the unlucky skirmisher was no  more.Without warning, a burning Energy Orb exploded across  Bakbuk's shoulders, bloodying the dwarf and nearly driving him to his  knees. The companions turned just in time to see a robed wyrmpriest  slinking back into the shadows at the southern end of the waterfall  chamber. The distraction caught Gildras off guard, and he was wounded by  powerfully thrown spear from one of the remaining skirmishers. The true  danger faced by the companions became apparent when Irontooth himself  came charging out of the northeast corner of the cavern complex, twin  battleaxes blazing, and tore into poor Paget, who was left bruised and  bloodied by the assault. The agile halfling moved with the force of  Irontooth's attack, and used his momentum to land a brutal Trick Strike  on the goblin chieftain, causing the creature to stagger back. The  wounded rogue saw his chance, and fled towards the relative safety of  his friends.<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4FJjQESU4S8/TF2qVjPqVEI/AAAAAAAAAEE/dfsuYqjpXsY/s1600/Kobold+Dragonshield.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4FJjQESU4S8/TF2qVjPqVEI/AAAAAAAAAEE/dfsuYqjpXsY/s320/Kobold+Dragonshield.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4FJjQESU4S8/TF2qVVAuHYI/AAAAAAAAAD8/8XuQUUBCCuA/s1600/Kobold+Wyrmpriest.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4FJjQESU4S8/TF2qVVAuHYI/AAAAAAAAAD8/8XuQUUBCCuA/s320/Kobold+Wyrmpriest.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4FJjQESU4S8/TF2qVwmDlyI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Dua7mbpDToA/s1600/Irontooth.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4FJjQESU4S8/TF2qVwmDlyI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Dua7mbpDToA/s320/Irontooth.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>Kobold Dragonshield, Wyrmpriest & Irontooth TokensPhoebe  shoved the injured and stumbling halfling behind Bakbuk, turned, and  launched a perfectly aimed Lance of Faith towards the Goblin. Irontooth  bellowed with rage as the radiant projectile tore through his shoulder  blade. The cleric raised an arm in defiant cheer, but then was almost  knocked into the dirt by another explosive Energy Orb, which was lobbed  haphazardly in her direction by a second, stealthy wyrmpriest who was  hiding in the southeast corner. Raxil stepped forward and, drawing his  arms back as if pulling on an invisible bowstring, he fired a magical  Acid Arrow deep into Irontooth's chest. The creature screamed as the  acid began to eat away at his armor, and his flesh. In response, a  dragonshield kobold emerged from the eastern end of the cavern and ran  straight at Raxil with an outstretched shortsword, but missed its mark.  Likewise, one of the skirmishers broke away from the melee with a sloppy  slash towards Gildras and attempted to charge at the wizard with its  spear, but it only managed to receive a deep gash across its back as  Gildras swung his sword wildly at the retreating lizardman. While the  companions were mostly preoccupied with protecting the robed wizard,  Irontooth waded into the fracas with a devastating assault against  Phoebe with his dual axes, rendering the cleric bloodied before the  goblin, himself, doubled over in pain as Raxil's Acid Arrow continued to  eat its way through his chest. Gildras spoke an Inspiring Word to  Phoebe, healing some of her wounds,  before moving her out of harm's way with his Wolfpack Tactics, and  plunging his longsword into Irontooth's hip, bloodying him. A second  dragonshield appeared from seemingly nowhere and nicked Phoebe with its  shortsword, and at the same time managed to duck under Bakbuk's wild  Cleave, which only barely clipped Irontooth's arm. The goblin turned and  snarled with unfettered hatred in Bakbuk's face, giving the dwarf a  close-up view of his demon skull tattoo (and a close-up whiff of his  rancid breath).<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4FJjQESU4S8/TF2qxK-x9rI/AAAAAAAAAEU/joqBwMTaC0A/s1600/Img+-+Orcus+Tattoo+-+Web.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4FJjQESU4S8/TF2qxK-x9rI/AAAAAAAAAEU/joqBwMTaC0A/s320/Img+-+Orcus+Tattoo+-+Web.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>FG II Meta: During  this particular round, there was a need to mix and match a lot of  different, semi-complicated modifiers and effects. It felt a little bit  clunky, and there was more rules-lawyering than I generally care to see  during an encounter. I like it when we can focus on the action and  role-play, not on the meta details. Some of the 4E effects that we tried  to implement in Fantasy Grounds II didn't operate as planned, and  expired at the wrong times. So, this past week I spent a considerable  amount of time learning about situational powers (FGII's answer to  handling things like class features, racial traits, certain feats, and  other non-standard effects). Now, many of the often forgotten or  incorrectly handled little buffs and debuffs that come along during the  course of an encounter should be largely automated! This is what the  Combat Tracker looks like to the players (the GM version has a lot more  data). Notice all the cool effects that are applied to each of the PC's!<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4FJjQESU4S8/TF2ranJcyoI/AAAAAAAAAEc/cj1UbmM8Rxs/s1600/Effects.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4FJjQESU4S8/TF2ranJcyoI/AAAAAAAAAEc/cj1UbmM8Rxs/s320/Effects.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>In the next post, the exciting conclusion of the party's epic battle against Irontooth!</blockquote>

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