Merlin the Tuna
First Post
My group actually had two encounters with Irontooth in the same game. We had 4 PCs: cleric, warlock, wizard, fighter.
After making quick work of the enemies outside, we snuck in through the waterfall, because there's always something behind the waterfall. We started tearing through the kobolds inside, but at that point in the day had gone through almost all of our encounter and daily powers. We thought we were doing pretty well until Irontooth let out a roar and charged in from the next room. He and the remaining Dragonshields pretty quickly started forcing us back, with the Wyrmpriest in the back lobbing potshots at us all the while. The fighter went down first, followed quickly by the cleric and then the warlock. The wizard then booked it back to town, never to be seen again.
At the end of Irontooth: Take 1, the goblin survivors were Irontooth, one Dragonshield, and the Wyrmpriest. The two underlings dragged the 3 unconscious party members deeper into the cave and chucked them with the rest of the corpses, taking post nearby as Irontooth returned to his business. At this point, the fighter finally hit a nat 20 on his death save, regaining consciousness. He quietly administered a heal check to the cleric, failing. The cleric promptly failed his third death save died. The Fighter did manage to get the Warlock conscious though, and the kobolds remained unaware that we weren't, in fact, dead.
Taking full advantage of that, we laid silently in the corner for 5 minutes, giving us a chance to regain our encounter powers and burn the rest of our healing surges for the day. When everyone at the table stopped laughing about this, we popped up and laid waste to the two mooks nearby. Irontooth came back at the sounds of combat, at half HP thanks to the damage and regeneration of the previous battle. He continued to beat the tar out of us, and just before he laid the final blow on the Fighter and moved on to the pre-bloodied Warlock (thanks to a lack of available surges), the 'lock managed to crit on an Eldritch blast and bring him down.
Veeeeery enjoyable first 4e experience.
After making quick work of the enemies outside, we snuck in through the waterfall, because there's always something behind the waterfall. We started tearing through the kobolds inside, but at that point in the day had gone through almost all of our encounter and daily powers. We thought we were doing pretty well until Irontooth let out a roar and charged in from the next room. He and the remaining Dragonshields pretty quickly started forcing us back, with the Wyrmpriest in the back lobbing potshots at us all the while. The fighter went down first, followed quickly by the cleric and then the warlock. The wizard then booked it back to town, never to be seen again.
At the end of Irontooth: Take 1, the goblin survivors were Irontooth, one Dragonshield, and the Wyrmpriest. The two underlings dragged the 3 unconscious party members deeper into the cave and chucked them with the rest of the corpses, taking post nearby as Irontooth returned to his business. At this point, the fighter finally hit a nat 20 on his death save, regaining consciousness. He quietly administered a heal check to the cleric, failing. The cleric promptly failed his third death save died. The Fighter did manage to get the Warlock conscious though, and the kobolds remained unaware that we weren't, in fact, dead.
Taking full advantage of that, we laid silently in the corner for 5 minutes, giving us a chance to regain our encounter powers and burn the rest of our healing surges for the day. When everyone at the table stopped laughing about this, we popped up and laid waste to the two mooks nearby. Irontooth came back at the sounds of combat, at half HP thanks to the damage and regeneration of the previous battle. He continued to beat the tar out of us, and just before he laid the final blow on the Fighter and moved on to the pre-bloodied Warlock (thanks to a lack of available surges), the 'lock managed to crit on an Eldritch blast and bring him down.
Veeeeery enjoyable first 4e experience.
