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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 4807327" data-attributes="member: 11760">I don't know if anyone remembers my Midwood campaign -- one day, I'll restart the Story Hour, honest! -- but currently, the heroic half of the campaign are witnessing a group of kobold champions of Tiamat (led by the group's nemesis, a kobold priestess of Tiamat who actually killed one of the characters early on in the campaign) who are currently making ritual sacrifices to Tiamat while on a pilgrimage to an ancient temple to the dragon goddess. There they plan to copy down a ritual that will mean doom for the heroes' barony.[sblock=Boring other details]In a fit of metagaming, they're at the Oasis of the White Palm (in the desert of Uraq, the southern Arabian nation in the world of Monte Cook's Ptolus), which is ruled by the blue dragon Ra'ad, the self-proclaimed Master of the Desert Nomads. I'm the only one in the campaign who's been playing long enough to catch these references, but they make me giggle.Both the kobolds and the heroes want to get the blue dragon to give them a scale for their various rituals -- the heroes will be trying to foil the kobolds with a counter-ritual of their own. Ra'ad likes to think of himself as a temporal ruler, instead of just a bullying thug who ruins the other oases in the desert, so the player characters are trying to convince him to give them a scale for diplomatic reasons. Ra'ad nominally follows the god of the desert nomads -- Rajek the Wanderer, for the Ptolusphiles -- but the kobolds' request certainly speaks to him as an evil dragon ...[/sblock]I love kobolds, but I want to find a middle ground between cute kobolds and super-scary Tucker's Kobolds here.My thought is that the kobolds are going to ritually feed animals that represent the humans, dwarves and gnomes of the barony to five snakes that have been bound together by their tails.What sort of animals should the player characters watch be sacrificed so that they will realize that they're seeing a symbolic sacrifice of the Barony of Midwood to Tiamat?Any suggestions appreciated.</blockquote>

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