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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 4451859" data-attributes="member: 63">Well, I also envisioned Coaltongue as an old wiseguy with a sense of humor and enough charisma and gravitas to get men and women to die for him. Sort of like George Clooney meets Winston Churchill, with a dash of Bruce Willis tossed in for the bad-assitude. So he's charming, smart, tough, but someone you can relate to. And while he thinks he knows best and should rule the world because nobody else could do as good a job, he's not like, y'know, Hitler or something. He doesn't think he's infallible or that his enemies deserve to die just because.What should happen? Eh, I think Coaltongue's initial reaction would be, "Screw this. I'm immortal. I don't want people to keep killing me, and I've lost all my supporters who could protect me. I'm too old for this sh*t." And he'd want to just find someplace secluded, maybe after offering some canny advice to the heroes.If the heroes went out of their way to encourage Coaltongue to join their side, and painted Leska as a great villain who would ruin the world, he could probably be convinced. But he's smart enough to know that most the leaders of the nations in the area would be afraid of him reclaiming power, and would want to do him in again. So if he did join forces with the heroes, he would try to make clear that he has no desire to rule again. He'd be busy helping plan strategy, and politicking to get allies on their side, so he wouldn't be out actually fighting, at least not until adventure 12. Even then, he's old, and doesn't have any magic gear, so he'd be relying on his leadership skills and immortality, not his combat prowess.I personally think the image of Coaltongue helping out in a fight, just thwacking people with a mundane mace or axe, getting hacked to pieces and not dying, standing as a sign for the Resistance forces to be resilient and unrelenting, is pretty fun.Good luck.</blockquote>

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