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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tolen Mar" data-source="post: 3067892" data-attributes="member: 1295">I hate goblins.  I hate 'em, hate 'em, hate 'em!I'm playing a 4th level beguiler/1st level fighter.  I dipped into fighter because we are short a player, and I'm not as able in a fight to stand back and use my spells as often.  Sometimes I have to get in and mix it up, and my attack bonus was too low to let me do any good.  An extra +1 BAB, and weapon finesse later, and I'm in better shape.  Nonetheless, I'm not the best fighter in the group.  However, I am fifth level...you'd think that would count for something.Ok, so here we are in Eberron, in Sharn.  We have a body to get rid of without alerting any authority-type figures, so we decide to go down to the sewers and ditch the body there.  As we wander around in the stench, we come across a garbage pile; picking their way through it are a pair of goblins.  We manage to sneak past them (we weren't looking for a fight of any kind, and after all, they are goblins!  We don't need to squash such simple little creatures) carrying the body.  Once we get past the pair, we hear something much bigger coming our way.  Now we are stuck between something big and probably dangerous, and a pair of goblins.  We drop the body, figuring that whatever is headed our way will make short work of it, solving our dilemma, and we beat a hasty retreat.So I get the idea that we don't have to outrun the monster, we just have to outrun the goblins. <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=":)" />  so as I go by, I trip one of them, landing its ugly face in the muck.  I didn't mean anything particularly cruel by this, it was just survival of the fittest.  So the other goblin stops, and helps her companion up out of the muck, and in anger, they draw swords on us!  Not us, me.I lose initiative...of course...and they attack.  One crits, one doesn't.  This is where I find out they are rogues, and since they went first, I'm flat-footed.My character is dropped in one round. (To -3 HP, at least I stabilised on my own!)By goblins.In fact, the final stroke was delivered by the female.I had my butt handed to me by a girl-goblin...I nearly retired the character right then out of shame.She blames us for the death of her husband (who gets killed a little later in the fight by Drogo the halfling), and swears to get revenge on us.  Especially when she sees her husband picked up by a cadaver collector and added to its collection (the source of the loud approaching noise).  So now we have a goblin recurring NPC: our DM assures us she'll be back.  An NPC with a whale of a grudge.  No doubt she'll turn out to be the head of a guild or some such the next time we see her.So...anyone else have any recent events they'd like to share?  Let's all wallow in character self-pity for a while!EDIT: My character made it out of there.  Our shifter fighter carried my body out of the sewers and got me to a healer.</blockquote>

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