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<blockquote data-quote="LogantheBard" data-source="post: 6095119" data-attributes="member: 70039"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Crossposted from Paizo's forums</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I'm not sure if it's due to my miscues, or pure assumption, my party has somehow arrived at the conclusion that the Thistletop goblins number in the hundreds, rather than the approximately 40 the adventure path describes.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Rather than tell them that they're wrong, I think I might embrace it, and rewrite the Thistletop area. My party has cleared the Glassworks and the Catacombs of Wrath, and are about to reconvene with Shaelu (she's been in and out of town, scouting Thistletop and the surrounding area gathering intel on the goblin tribes).</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I'm thinking Shaelu will report that the Thistletop Tribe is as heavily fortified as the PC's fear it is: nearly 200 goblins, approximately 25 goblin dogs, and a "domesticated" Giant Frilled Lizard. They're camp is a modified version of the briar thicket shown in the book (where the party would encounter Grogmurt), and this is where most of the goblin rabble live. Ripnugget still lives on the island, and only those who have earned honor in battle are allowed to live with him there.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Grogmurt will play a significantly different role in this setting. Rather than cut himself off from the rest of the tribe, and trying to earn Ripnugget's respect, he's abandoned the tribe completely, has taken leadership over the remnants of the Birdcruncher tribe (around 50, rather than the 10 the book lists). He has sent an Animal Messenger to Shaelu requesting a parley. He proposes that his goblins aid the party in taking Thistletop, and overthrowing Ripnugget. He promises that if they succeed and takes he reign as chieftan of the newly formed "Thistlecruncher Tribe," he will honor a truce with Sandpoint, and will keep his tribe away from the city as long as his reign continues.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">My party is generally open to using the tools at hand to their advantage, and would probably take Grogmurt up on his offer, and gaining a powerful ally.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Would this cause any rifts in the future of the adventure path? I haven't read very far into book 2, and nothing past that. How would Nualia's party act in this situation? Tsuto and Elyrium have both been killed.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Any other thoughts or comments?</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LogantheBard, post: 6095119, member: 70039"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Crossposted from Paizo's forums I'm not sure if it's due to my miscues, or pure assumption, my party has somehow arrived at the conclusion that the Thistletop goblins number in the hundreds, rather than the approximately 40 the adventure path describes.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Rather than tell them that they're wrong, I think I might embrace it, and rewrite the Thistletop area. My party has cleared the Glassworks and the Catacombs of Wrath, and are about to reconvene with Shaelu (she's been in and out of town, scouting Thistletop and the surrounding area gathering intel on the goblin tribes).[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]I'm thinking Shaelu will report that the Thistletop Tribe is as heavily fortified as the PC's fear it is: nearly 200 goblins, approximately 25 goblin dogs, and a "domesticated" Giant Frilled Lizard. They're camp is a modified version of the briar thicket shown in the book (where the party would encounter Grogmurt), and this is where most of the goblin rabble live. Ripnugget still lives on the island, and only those who have earned honor in battle are allowed to live with him there.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Grogmurt will play a significantly different role in this setting. Rather than cut himself off from the rest of the tribe, and trying to earn Ripnugget's respect, he's abandoned the tribe completely, has taken leadership over the remnants of the Birdcruncher tribe (around 50, rather than the 10 the book lists). He has sent an Animal Messenger to Shaelu requesting a parley. He proposes that his goblins aid the party in taking Thistletop, and overthrowing Ripnugget. He promises that if they succeed and takes he reign as chieftan of the newly formed "Thistlecruncher Tribe," he will honor a truce with Sandpoint, and will keep his tribe away from the city as long as his reign continues.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]My party is generally open to using the tools at hand to their advantage, and would probably take Grogmurt up on his offer, and gaining a powerful ally.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Would this cause any rifts in the future of the adventure path? I haven't read very far into book 2, and nothing past that. How would Nualia's party act in this situation? Tsuto and Elyrium have both been killed.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Any other thoughts or comments?[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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