Eaglesford Campaign: "Strange Lights"

[Nail]

Looks like someone wants to make some crawling claws.

Welcome, Esiminar! Nice of you to join us. Please feel free to post your thoughts! With reference to your post, let me add the following.

Background the Players know but the miscellaneous reader would not:

We're using the mythology (but not the complete cosmography) from the Book of the Righteous, by Green Ronin publishing. The relevence? Necromancy is strictly banned, and punishable by death. Crawling claws are most definitely necromatic constructs...... Let us hope the old woman does not do such things.

As an aside: In the civilized areas, when someone dies, his corpse is burned to fine ash. Even fallen foes should be cremated. Burial is concidered a lesser form of necromancy, and so is banned in the Empire. After all, why would the corpse be preserved but to "rise again"? Is that not the very definition of necromancy? Vile necromatic warlocks! Feel the white-hot edge of the sword of justice, sworn to burn away.........err, sorry. Got a little carried away, there.

As you know, the Empire is fading......we must stand together to preserve it's values!

 

[Nail]

or maybe we're to be sacrificed to the kobold god, and that image is of the idol beside the altar and it's the last thing we see!

In my continuing effort to be a terribly theatrical, if unabashed, RBDM, I will add:

Videssian, part of what you say may be true. Sad, ......but true.

 

[DrSpunj]

In my continuing effort to be a terribly theatrical, if unabashed, RBDM, I will add:

Videssian, part of what you say may be true. Sad, ......but true.

And on that encouraging note from our friendly, neighborhood RBDM...I've already worked out my next character!

 

[Videssian]

Heh, so have I, mostly..

Whatcha going to be next?

 

[zepherus]

Evil? Moi???

"Vile necromatic warlocks! Feel the white-hot edge of the sword of justice, sworn to burn away.........err, sorry. Got a little carried away, there."

Hey, now...condemning all those who practice the "necromantic arts" is outright discrimination! Not all necromancers are bad...jeez, let a few bad apples raise the dead and turn them into mindless zombies, and all of a sudden everyone that can do it is an outlaw.

Oh well, I'll just call it "civil disobedience"!

 

[Nail]

Zepherus!

Thanks for joining us! Our friendly neighborhood wizard (Teiran) now graces these pages.

I wonder if he'll be able to convince the locals that the undead aren't all that bad, once you get to know them.......

 

[DrSpunj]

Well...

Since Tieran wasn't with our party last session for the near-TPK, perhaps he can practice his art on OUR corpses!

 

[Milo Windby]

Great work Nail! I'm very interested to see your kobold tactics. My first 'dungeon' was a kobold warrens. It would have been MUCH harder on my hapless PCs if I hadn't stupidly let one of them purchase a wand of magic missiles. She killed all of my full plated kobold warriors with no effort whatsoever.

Ahhh, there's nothing like the sight of a small lizard in full plate to strike fear in the hearts of PCs.

{SNIP} At the table was the battle-eager dwarf, Riva Stormhand, a dwarven berserker, {SNIP}[/B]

Sounds like a good starting point for a Dwarven Battlerager, courtesy of Badaxe Games? I have one in the game I'm currently DMing. Her major complaint is the inability to wear armor of any kind, getting hit a lot is not her favorite thing in the world.

 

[DrSpunj]

Well...

Great work Nail! I'm very interested to see your kobold tactics.

I'd be happy to give you the player-side version from Garret's perspective! Underneath a bed in an abandoned farmhouse we find a trapdoor to a deep (dark) 5' wide shaft with a ladder. This goes down ~40'. As Riva and Rowan (carrying a torch) head down the ladder rungs all "break" in an attempt to drop our heroes, the torch falls down the shaft illuminating...nothing, though it's obvious there is a room at the bottom. Though they catch themselves before falling too far and start climbing down they are both hit with a Will Save spell upon reaching the bottom of the shaft. They both fail and slump into unconsciousness. Garret and Thaile see this from the top of the shaft and head down to attempt a rescue. By the time we get to the bottom their bodies are gone and Garret, first down, also gets hit with a Will Save spell. He *also* fails and slumps into unconsciousness leaving Thaile to stand over him (at this point Nail mumbled something about only having 3 Readied spells! ). The torch still provides her with enough light to see that her back is against a wall, she's flanked by 2 spear-wielding kobolds, and has a tower shield wall (3 abreast) directly in front of her. The 3 tower shields are all rotated to the side in-sync exposing the kobolds holding the tower shields. Behind them are 3 Xbow-wielding kobolds who start firing away. She's a Rog/Clr and doesn't know what to do. She tried kneeling for one round to escape the Xbow bolts but that left her more vulnerable to the spears! She managed to take out one spear-wielder and move to the right 5', but that put her into Line-of-Effect for a Magic Missile cast from the dark part of the room. She went into negative HP and our session ended.

Sounds like a good starting point for a Dwarven Battlerager, courtesy of Badaxe Games? I have one in the game I'm currently DMing. Her major complaint is the inability to wear armor of any kind, getting hit a lot is not her favorite thing in the world.

I'm not sure if we're using Wulf's HOHF or not. Nail and I both have them. I've always wanted to play a Battlerager along the lines of Pwent from Salvatore's Drizz't books which is heavily armor dependent, so I couldn't use Wulf's version.

DrSpunj

 

[Milo Windby]

Re: Well...

The torch still provides her with enough light to see that her back is against a wall, she's flanked by 2 spear-wielding kobolds, and has a tower shield wall (3 abreast) directly in front of her. The 3 tower shields are all rotated to the side in-sync exposing the kobolds holding the tower shields. Behind them are 3 Xbow-wielding kobolds who start firing away. She's a Rog/Clr and doesn't know what to do. She tried kneeling for one round to escape the Xbow bolts but that left her more vulnerable to the spears! She managed to take out one spear-wielder and move to the right 5', but that put her into Line-of-Effect for a Magic Missile cast from the dark part of the room. She went into negative HP and our session ended.

Not bad at all Nail! I wish I would have used some of these tactics with my kobolds! As a fellow player I feel bad for the party though. Sorry guys!

I'm not sure if we're using Wulf's HOHF or not. Nail and I both have them. I've always wanted to play a Battlerager along the lines of Pwent from Salvatore's Drizz't books which is heavily armor dependent, so I couldn't use Wulf's version.

I haven't read any of those books yet, though I've been meaning to. The plus side to Wulf's Battlerager is the AC bonus when threatened by multiple enemies. It's just not always going to happen that you're being assaulted by five or six beasties though.

I'm eagerly awaiting the next session. Do the brand new adventurers make it out alive or do their 'successors' have a party to avenge?