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<blockquote data-quote="Lackhand" data-source="post: 4948828" data-attributes="member: 36160"><p>Land and riches. The dwarves, when they were ousted from their citadel, ousted the stone giants from the plains where they used to live. The hobgoblins convince the stone giants that, together, they can take back their roaming lands and leave the high heights. Besides, they really like shiny things, and dwarven shiny things are even better. Dwarven slaves are even better than <em>that</em>.</p><p></p><p>Honor. Stone giants have forgotten that they ever lived where the dwarves once lived, but when a hobgoblin shaman whispers in their (large) ears that he knows where to find the Stones of Bone beneath the council-chambers of the dwarves, their chieftan is intrigued. When the giants go to the Black Flame-held citadel and crack the seals that have held for ages untold, the chamber is empty. Those dwarves must have taken the remains with them when they retreated!</p><p>DM's choice whether they really did, or whether the hobgoblins somehow spirited them away... And triple points if there's a bizarre voodoo-ritual involving said bones which is being used to compel the giants, in an ultimately self-defeating spiral of plots <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Love. Stone giants have a disproportionate gender ratio of 3 (or more!) men per woman, and moreover, the women have recently been getting sicker and sicker. The hobgoblin shamans offer a cure in the form of a potion made by milking serpents, work that requires small hands and a fair bit of knack. They have sworn that should the stone giants betray them, they'll let their line end then and there, and have forced an uneasy alliance by being very cagey about the precise contents of their medicines.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lackhand, post: 4948828, member: 36160"] Land and riches. The dwarves, when they were ousted from their citadel, ousted the stone giants from the plains where they used to live. The hobgoblins convince the stone giants that, together, they can take back their roaming lands and leave the high heights. Besides, they really like shiny things, and dwarven shiny things are even better. Dwarven slaves are even better than [i]that[/i]. Honor. Stone giants have forgotten that they ever lived where the dwarves once lived, but when a hobgoblin shaman whispers in their (large) ears that he knows where to find the Stones of Bone beneath the council-chambers of the dwarves, their chieftan is intrigued. When the giants go to the Black Flame-held citadel and crack the seals that have held for ages untold, the chamber is empty. Those dwarves must have taken the remains with them when they retreated! DM's choice whether they really did, or whether the hobgoblins somehow spirited them away... And triple points if there's a bizarre voodoo-ritual involving said bones which is being used to compel the giants, in an ultimately self-defeating spiral of plots :) Love. Stone giants have a disproportionate gender ratio of 3 (or more!) men per woman, and moreover, the women have recently been getting sicker and sicker. The hobgoblin shamans offer a cure in the form of a potion made by milking serpents, work that requires small hands and a fair bit of knack. They have sworn that should the stone giants betray them, they'll let their line end then and there, and have forced an uneasy alliance by being very cagey about the precise contents of their medicines. [/QUOTE]
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