Café de Nuit

If the PCs start off at 1st or 2nd level: Character Name: Walleran of the Dunswolds Alignment: Neutral (good tendencies) Class: Fighter Race: Human Backstory: Walleran set out on his career as an adventurer a fortnight ago, after twenty years of garrison duty in the Dunswolds, where bands of sheep-r...

I'm in.

ALAIN effaces the runes, first with a stick and then with sizzling conjured missiles.

The curse --or at least its written form--removed from the cellar, the party may now depart.

After leaving food and water for the dead men's horses in the barn, they group rides for the Darkling Stair...

Result: no additional insight gained, but he knows how to destroy the writing in a safe way. Repeat certain phrases and make signs against evil, and then efface the runes in a particular order with a spade or a sharp stick. Acid arrow or a similar spell, as you suggested to me, could be useful for m...

Crap rolls, but

+21 spellcraft

and plus 12 knowledge: arcane.

With permission from LS, the rolls:

spellcraft

0

know: arcana

1

Lord Skybolt wrote:What Skill check I need to make to destroy this Trap for good ?

Spellcraft DC 15

Knowledge: Arcana DC10 for a +2 boost to the Spellcraft roll

Lord Skybolt wrote:Save versus annoying ass Runes
244954:0

So barely made my save it looks like .

Actually my Will save bonus is now +12 now .

It is.

And, yeah, you made the save.

With a plus 11 will save, he can hardly fail. Just don't roll a nat 1.

The Abyssal curse strikes the reader of the evil runes. But as Alain is forewarned by Kat's experience, I will adjust the DC of the saving throw downward to a mere DC 10 will save. This represents him stopping reading as soon as he realizes it's a curse. No, doesn't matter if he says it out loud or ...

(I'm taking the liberty of advancing the scene, as Kintire's PC intended to warn the party about the creepy message she found in the cellar.) IN THE CELLAR Klokulf, Alain, and Fala find the message on the wall, just as Kat described it. THE SONS OF ORCUS EVER WE RISE The cabbalistic circles and gly...

DustBunny wrote:

Five wrote:If anybody should be ported to Ravenloft it's Bargle. The bastard killed Aleena!

Even in Ravenloft you cast escape Aleena vs Morgan debates

They are both Lawful, so we can't rely on alignment as the deciding factor.

I see that as the writers suggesting possibilities for the DM to use. Any of those might be the truth. Or none.
I wouldn't use that approach with most lords, but in the case of the HH, I think it works well.

Manofevil wrote:

brilliantlight wrote:

Manofevil wrote:We haven't figured out the Headless Horseman either.

Does he even have a RL backstory?

I seem to recall there being one someplace.

Darklords