Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9076234" data-attributes="member: 6696971">5 Successes (0 Hard DC Available)/1 Failures/2 Secondary Skills Available[HR][/HR]"Well, this was supposed to be easy.  I come to the Hinterlands to ensure the various celestial deities and their material henchmen are no threat.  I return to Bantouk under the guise of 'job well done,' welcomed by my contacts in the military to unseat The Empress and her Council.  Caiphon's corruption purged.  The Legion of Ruth and Vezzuvu happy with their purge.  And the Lord of Minauros, and his worldly servant <bows>, fattens his impossibly large purse with all of the Empire's wealth."Dramatically, "...but no...you_have_to_play the hero.  Fools."Turning to his gathered minions.  "No matter.  Raise the standards for the rest of our forces.  I guess this ends in more carnage than we intended."The standard-bearers of the phalanx move to raise their standards high in the night sky, signaling the rest of the force to rally on Dolg Hana.[HR][/HR]Alright, Consequence for Failure here is I'm increasing the encounter budget by +2 further (I'll figure out what that is if it comes to it) for a total of Level +6.  That is all of his forces.  Of note:* You're going to get 2 x Hindering Terrains in this coming combat that you are immune to; The Iron Gorgon Goliaths + The Blessed Consecrating the Church.  So that will aid you in the coming conflict if you get enemies adjacent.* Despite it going to Level +6, you're going to have a TON of units for Team PC and all the related synergies (including mostly full resources).* If you want to just opt into this "all out combat" (like Rorschache in the YOU'RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME prison scene), you can go ahead and do so (just vignette that).  We'll close out the SC (you'll get xp for it like always).  If you do this and you win, that will unlock you having the ability to parley with the rest of The Legion of Ruth to quell their incoming surge to lay waste to Bantouk by the purging fire and might of Vezzuvu.If you do declare an action to shut down the raising of the standards to reinforce fully, its MEDIUM DC.</blockquote>

Verification