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Thysl
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 Posted - 14 Oct 2005 : 00:42:52
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Olare,
Hey guys, this post isn't getting much play over at that OTHER board (the only person that gave a response was Kuje, thanks man ), and I really do need some new ideas - I'm dry.
I'm rearing to start a Moonsea campaign (lvl 4), I want a bit of swashbuckiling sea adventure but am unsure about the kind of critters that I can place in a random encounter table for - as I understand it - a freshwater sea. Is it a freshwater sea, BTW, does the Lis flow out of the Moonsea?
As for automatic shipboard encounters, this is what I have:
1. Raging White Young Dragon (EL 5) CR 4 +1 because of tactics
2. Marel ('Sea Drow') boarding party (EL Varies) 3rd level cleric of Umberlee, 1st level ranger, 2 1st level rogues, 4 1st level warriors
3. Storm elemental (med) attack (EL 6) The ship's prelate (Cleric of Valkur) is being hunted by summoned outsiders sent by his ruthless cousin, a cleric of Auril. He must be protected from the elementals for 3 rounds, by that time he has managed to command one. He instructs the PCs and to slay the remaining elemental.
After an initial voyage the PCs will go through the module Sons of Gruumsh and be on there way to 6th level (more than likely). What I am asking from you is ideas on random encounters for the Moonsea Lake, befitting the above style of encounter.
I was considering Scrags and Merrow, pirates (I for sure will use Barak the Mongrel from the old Moonsea module) and sea zombies (which fit in a longer running story arc concerning a zombie plague out of Thar).
Any help is gladly appreciated.
Thysl in Silver
P.S. I also need a name for the Dhow that the PCs will be adventuring on: the only ideas I've had so far are: Our Windy Woman, the Even Runner, Liesae's Love. Anyone?
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Kuje
Great Reader
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Posted - 14 Oct 2005 : 00:48:20
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I thought I was having a bad deju-vu here. :)
I gave you the help I could on the other thread and I'm not sure what else to say except for checking the 3e DM screen and the El's Ecologies.
Um Stormwreck might have some ideas as well, now that I recall that book. |
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Edited by - Kuje on 14 Oct 2005 00:49:12 |
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Dargoth
Great Reader
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Posted - 14 Oct 2005 : 01:32:13
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| You might want to check out the the booklet that came with the FR DM screen its full of FR related Wandering Monster encounters |
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Thysl
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Posted - 14 Oct 2005 : 02:21:10
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Yeah... thing is that the FR encounter table is based on a salt sea, with the ecology befitting all the other northern water bodies. I am still working on the assumption that the Moonsea is a freshwater body. I know it doesn't have aquatic mammals, and doubt it contains sharks. Taking this into account there are a few creatures from the FR Encounter Tables I can use: Kapoacinth, Kraken, Purple Worm, Sea Hag, Squid, Storm Giants, Tojanidas, and Tritons. While there is precedence for the Kraken and Squid (since there are freshwater squid in the Serbrin) I'm not sure if they fit, certainly a Kraken is out of the question for a few more levels. Sorm Giants, Tojanidas? I can see them being here but once again too strong a possible fight. Tritons, Purple Worms? I dunno... Kapoacinth and Sea Hags fit well, and will be part of the encounter table I am making.
I know there are these creatures in the Moonsea lake: Scrags, Morrow, Marel (Sea Drow), a very big Dragon Turtle, ghosts and Lacedons.
I'll add Kapoacinth and Sea Hags, a few raging dragons and elementals. Can any of you think of creatures - along these same lines - that I could add? 
As for the Elminster's Ecology that Kuje refered to: is there a Moonsea specific entry in it? If so am I missing anything from that list?
Thysl in Silver
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Edited by - Thysl on 14 Oct 2005 02:22:30 |
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Kuje
Great Reader
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Posted - 14 Oct 2005 : 02:41:05
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| Specific for the Moonsea? No, but it does have Fresh Water and Salt Water tables in it based on the Sea of Fallen Stars but all of these could be adapted for the Moonsea since its not that far north from that large body of water and parts of the Moonsea connect to the SoFS. |
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Edited by - Kuje on 14 Oct 2005 02:41:53 |
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Dargoth
Great Reader
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Posted - 14 Oct 2005 : 02:54:34
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The following is from the module Curse of the Azure Bonds
Table 10
The Moonsea
d20 roll encounter
1 1-2 Throat leeches
2 1-4 Giant Crayfish
3 1-4 otters
4 1-6 Giant Waterspiders
5 1-2 Giant Snapping Turtles
6 1-4 giant Lampreys
7 1 Giant catfish
8 4-16 Giant cranes
9 20-50 Buccaneers
10 2-16 Aquatic Ogres
11 4-16 merchants
12 1-2 Dinosaurs (Elasmosaurus)
13 1-4 carp dragons
14 1 Mist Dragon
15 2-5 giant Otters
16 1 Sirine
17 1-6 Marine Trolls
18 2-8 Marine Gargoyles
19 1-3 Water Weirds
20 1 Dragon Turtle
In addition Ruins of Adventure says Aquatic elves can be found in the Moonsea |
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Emperor Sigismund
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Thysl
Seeker
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Posted - 14 Oct 2005 : 05:30:57
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Right on, thanks Dargoth!!!
Giant Waterspiders sound awesome, what pre-existing 3e spider should I rip off to make that?
Elasmosaurus? Oh yeah, and I'm calling it Nessy!
Sirines... I'm thinking Sirines in the Moonsea are more the 'crash the stupid sailors in the rock' type from the Odyssey, not the 'I just want someone to play with me for a few hours' kind in the MM2.
What about the Aughisky from the Realms Beastiary at Mr. Boyd's website? I haven't read the short stories it was in (Theives' Honor, Theives' Reward and Theives' Justice), are they fitting, do you think? Has anyone read those shorts?
Thysl in Silver |
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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qstor
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Posted - 24 Dec 2005 : 18:09:43
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If you have the 3.0 monster book Tome of Horrors it has a lot of conversions of the monsters on the Curse of Azure Bonds random encounter list.
I'd second the Stormwreck sugguestion its pretty good.
If you're doing a "swashbuckling" adventure you might have the PC's run into depending on their alignment some Zhent pirates or other humanoid pirates. in the DMG II there's some tables about using rope ladder rights and stuff..
Liesae's Love sounds good.
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