NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8792778" data-attributes="member: 508">In tonight's Ghourmand Vale game session, we were tasked with finding and killing the dire boar that had been tearing up the trees and eating the vegetables in the garden of the farm where the Temple of Saint Cuthbert in the Vale gets most of its provisions.  Tracking the dire boar, we came to an open door in the side of a hill and saw a (normal-sized) boar enter it.  But there was no time to investigate, for the dire boar had scented us as was rushing in to attack.  By the time we killed it and entered the cellar, there was no sign of the smaller boar.  But a carrion crawler was digging its way into the cellar, so we killed it, then found a set of spiral stairs leading up.The next level up was mostly empty, but we found (and fought, and killed) a cockatrice in a side room.  Then we went to the top floor, where we heard a bunch of squealing puppies inside the curtains of a four-poster bed and ended up fighting a wolf with a small pouch around its neck.  This turned out to be a spellcasting wolf with an imp friend, who caused us no small amount of trouble - not surprisingly, because it wasn't a wolf at all but a barghest.  That was the toughest fight thus far in our burgeoning adventuring careers (we're 3rd level, although we hit 4th by the end of the session), partly because we rolled like crap once we got up to that top level.  If it hadn't been for our elven paladin of Pelor getting a confirmed crit in conjunction with a smite evil attack using a +1 flaming burst longsword (which resulted in a whopping 41 points of damage with one blow!), we very well might have had out first PC death.  But we prevailed, and the pouch wasn't a spell component pouch as we had first guessed, but a magic diamond that unlocked the secret vault of the wizard who originally lived in the building (and had been eaten by the barghest long before we showed up).  So we each got 2,000 gp for our troubles, plus a bunch of cool stuff (immovable rod, +1 bracers of armor, +2 ring of protection, rod of wonder).  And now we're 4th level, so my sorcerer finally learned the scorching ray spell and can start to pull his own weight a bit more than he has been doing.By the way, the normal-sized boar had been the imp, polymorphed.  And we can now add "newborn barghest puppies" to the list of things we've killed (although none of us is super eager to add "Puppy-Slayer" to our names - we might leave that part out of the bard songs detailing our adventures).Johnathan</blockquote>

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