Sacrosanct
Legend
Spoilers!!!!!!
This past weekend I ran my group through Nightstone. I drew out a halfscale map of the town (1 inch = 10ft) using the back of some old wrapping paper. Seriously, that stuff is great, especially if you have 1 inch grids on the back which a lot of wrapping paper has. I took out the Snakes, because I was going to have the villagers flee to the monastery in B5 Horror on the Hill, rather than the Dripping Caves, so they would be doing that entire module before meeting the cloud giant.
Anyway, they did a good job skirting the town stealthily to take out the goblins, and used a watchtower as a defendable position when attacking the worgs (before they fled). Some of the goblins also were able to flee after suffering pretty badly from the party's ranged weapons (firing from the watchtower).
The party then explored the keep, and did a long rest. The next morning, the watch at the gatehouse saw the group of orcs enter the town, led by the two goblins that fled earlier. They covered the bridge on their side with oil, and when the orcs started to converge on the keep and leap across the bridge, the party druid set it on fire. From their defensible position, they were able to take out the orcs without suffering too much. Overall, they did quite well.
Then they got greedy. The guards died in the fight with the orcs, so the party fighter (who acted like a thief) went back into the keep to steal the Lady's treasure. After surviving the goblins and orcs, he ended up getting killed by the flying sword. His real life wife, after her PC not seeing his PC for a while, went to investigate and did the same thing (I rolled really well for that sword lol).
They beat goblins, worgs, and orcs, and a single flying sword took out half the party, killing them (they failed their death saves before anyone bothered to look for them).
Ooops. Don't split the party. Especially if you're greedy
It's not like the guards didn't tell them the night before to have some respect for the dead and leave the Lady's valuable alone.
This past weekend I ran my group through Nightstone. I drew out a halfscale map of the town (1 inch = 10ft) using the back of some old wrapping paper. Seriously, that stuff is great, especially if you have 1 inch grids on the back which a lot of wrapping paper has. I took out the Snakes, because I was going to have the villagers flee to the monastery in B5 Horror on the Hill, rather than the Dripping Caves, so they would be doing that entire module before meeting the cloud giant.
Anyway, they did a good job skirting the town stealthily to take out the goblins, and used a watchtower as a defendable position when attacking the worgs (before they fled). Some of the goblins also were able to flee after suffering pretty badly from the party's ranged weapons (firing from the watchtower).
The party then explored the keep, and did a long rest. The next morning, the watch at the gatehouse saw the group of orcs enter the town, led by the two goblins that fled earlier. They covered the bridge on their side with oil, and when the orcs started to converge on the keep and leap across the bridge, the party druid set it on fire. From their defensible position, they were able to take out the orcs without suffering too much. Overall, they did quite well.
Then they got greedy. The guards died in the fight with the orcs, so the party fighter (who acted like a thief) went back into the keep to steal the Lady's treasure. After surviving the goblins and orcs, he ended up getting killed by the flying sword. His real life wife, after her PC not seeing his PC for a while, went to investigate and did the same thing (I rolled really well for that sword lol).
They beat goblins, worgs, and orcs, and a single flying sword took out half the party, killing them (they failed their death saves before anyone bothered to look for them).
Ooops. Don't split the party. Especially if you're greedy
It's not like the guards didn't tell them the night before to have some respect for the dead and leave the Lady's valuable alone.
