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<blockquote data-quote="THEMNGMNT" data-source="post: 8567124" data-attributes="member: 6809274">37th session in my Dragon Heist/Deck of Many Things mashup. 8th level half-orc cavalier fighter, halfling swashbuckler rogue, and half-elf evoker wizard/grave cleric.The players have been getting thrashed for several sessions in a row, so my goal for this adventure is to let them wreck face. We got straight into the action. Their mind flayer archrival -- an agent of the Xanathar -- conquered the underground stronghold of some allied drow. The PCs arrived too late. Now they have to fight their way through drow and spiderkin monstrosities in thrall to the mind flayer.To represent the drow stronghold I'm using the Malachite Fortress map from the Shackled City. I've been a fan of this map for a long time.This short session was almost entirely a single fight on the bridge and moat against an umber hulk, a cloaker, and a giant octopus. The cloaker tried and failed to engulf the rogue. The octopus lurked in the water waiting to grapple anyone who fell in. The hulk attempted to shove the orc off the bridge into the water. It failed. So the orc tried to shove the hulk off the bridge. He failed. This went back and forth until finally the orc prevailed. Then, with no foes in melee range, the orc jumped off the bridge into the water to continue attacking the umber hulk. It was bad ass.Next session: Into the fortress!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="THEMNGMNT, post: 8567124, member: 6809274"] 37th session in my Dragon Heist/Deck of Many Things mashup. 8th level half-orc cavalier fighter, halfling swashbuckler rogue, and half-elf evoker wizard/grave cleric. The players have been getting thrashed for several sessions in a row, so my goal for this adventure is to let them wreck face. We got straight into the action. Their mind flayer archrival -- an agent of the Xanathar -- conquered the underground stronghold of some allied drow. The PCs arrived too late. Now they have to fight their way through drow and spiderkin monstrosities in thrall to the mind flayer. To represent the drow stronghold I'm using the Malachite Fortress map from the Shackled City. I've been a fan of this map for a long time. This short session was almost entirely a single fight on the bridge and moat against an umber hulk, a cloaker, and a giant octopus. The cloaker tried and failed to engulf the rogue. The octopus lurked in the water waiting to grapple anyone who fell in. The hulk attempted to shove the orc off the bridge into the water. It failed. So the orc tried to shove the hulk off the bridge. He failed. This went back and forth until finally the orc prevailed. Then, with no foes in melee range, the orc jumped off the bridge into the water to continue attacking the umber hulk. It was bad ass. Next session: Into the fortress! [/QUOTE]

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