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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jedavis" data-source="post: 5808230" data-attributes="member: 35933">Hmm...  probably my best work was Golgorroth the Gnoll Demon, a Trailblazer Gnoll Paladin of Slaughter of Legend (MM2).  I was running Conquest of Bloodsworn Vale with a two-man party, Godrick the Fighter and The Monk With No Name, but was dissatisfied with the ending as written, so I decided to mix things up a bit.  The PCs happened upon a group of gnolls worshipping about a ziggurat with a priest leading from the top.  They slaughtered them handily, but upon slaying the last, a portal opened and through stepped Golgorroth, a supremely confident bronze-skinned gnoll wearing only a kilt with a fiendish axe and a great black hellforged shield, who thanked them kindly for assisting in the blood sacrifice necessary for his release into the mortal world.  After a tough fight against him and the zombie gnoll corpses he reanimated, they managed to put him down.  In his dying breath, he asked the party fighter if he might know the name of his slayer, which Godrick told him (provoking a "NOOOO!" from The Monk With No Name).  Golgorroth swore revenge, and died.Fast-forward a fairly significant amount of gametime later - the PCs have built a small fort on a rocky promontory, but gnolls now plague the land.  They split the party to go after two separate gnoll warbands, one of which was led by a half-fiend giant gnoll berserker, Golhimshin, son of Golgorroth, whose dying words were "Father, I have failed you."  This tipped the PCs off to Golgorroth's involvement, and they rushed back to the fort.  Upon arriving there, the PCs found the corpses of their loyal men-at-arms on pikes about the entrance, the gates shattered, the halls covered in blood...  and Golgorroth sitting on a throne of bodies in their great hall, merrily drinking their best wine, which was being served by their zombified house staff.  But this time, he was armored...  The combat that followed was a very very close thing, with the Monk With No Name down around -7 and both Godrick and Golgorroth around 5 HP.  Party wipe vs party victory came down to a single die roll for a charge attack...  and the dice gods favored the PCs with a timely overkill-crit.Anyways, they loved to hate Golgorroth, because the whole thing could've been avoided - if they hadn't slaughtered the gnolls, and hadn't revealed their names...  Also because he killed their men-at-arms!</blockquote>

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