51536b No.44488 [Last50 Posts]
The Kingdom of Clarent, once a shining land, full of peace, prosperity before you and your masters declared war on it. Such a weak area, no strife, no struggle, nothing to keep them motivated and strong. It was the will of the Council of Five that Clarent would fall and it's land and resources taken, it's people enslaved, it's magics learned and it's false gods destroyed. Thus the Seventh Imperial Army Marched to war.
The Pass of Kargas fell within a month, the fortresses of the pass totally shattered. Their soldiers fell under the hordes of orc barbarians, kobold zealots, human soldiers, and skeleton walkers. Their mages killed before taking the field by Darkblade Assassins, Drow Shadows, and misty vampires. Their walls cracked by the sheer might of Rock throwing giants, Mighty Dragons, Drow Magisters, Demons of Grond, and undead juggernauts. The victory of the Seventh was absolute and total, in other words, perfect.
Normally, this sort of momentum would be celebrated, and it WAS celebrated, but each Imperial Army is a microcosm of the Council of Five. The Church of Grond and it's human supplicants, the Orcish and Greenskin Hordes of Great Chief Gundebax, the Bound undead of the Archlich Thrayze, the Progeny, mates and zealots of the Dragon Queen Svezen'la'hareth and The scions of the great ClanCity Mandozelan all struggle to progress their faction's agendas, and most importantly, themselves in various and sundry ways. With the easy victories they accumulated at the pass followed by taking cities and towns with ease, the army slowly became less concerned about forces of Clarent and more concerned with internal politics. This in turn made what followed even more damning.
The seventh took city after city, rampaging across the land and sowing despair and ruin upon the natives of Clarent as they went. Soon all that still stood bright and proud was the Capital, and the fringe cities too far away to levy an effective force to reinforce it in time. The Seventh march and broke the defenders on an open field with contemptuous ease. It was so easy that many forces broke ranks and charged after the retreating defenders, the wary either being forced to follow to not be caught alone in an easy to take fragment or forgetting themselves trying to gain glory. This lead the Seventh into a most cunning and devastating trap. First once the Seventh and run pasts most of it's stationary wards and defenses a grand banishing happened. Undead were burned to ash or sent fleeing away at best speed for hours into ensorcelled night that was receding away. Demons of Grond simply were returned home, with great force, bound to their Hell until re-summoned. The Seventh reeled as more than a fifth of it's power was stripped away, then the enemy started fighting back in earnest. The formerly utterly defeated army wheeled about and stood it's ground, even as cavalry hidden from the sight of divination hit the flanks like a falling hammer. Angels summoned or perhaps just forcing their way into the material for Justice fell upon the beleaguered Imperial army. Spell, stones and siege ammunitions fell upon them as well. killing scores or more a strike. Heroes fought the remaining leadership, catching them flat footed and killing most. What was to be the day of the seventh's victory in Clarent instead marked the turning point of the war.
Shortly after this massive loss, the ailing kingdom revolted against their betters all over, throwing down imperial banners and slaughtering those who had aided them. Raiders and reavers were hunted down and executed. Cities and town retaken, all excepting Karagan. Their the shattered remains of the Seventh rallied and called the Council for support. But no support would come. The Empire has too many conflcits across the world to waste another Army on Clarent. The Seventh WOULD take Clarent, and do so without support of another Imperial Army. This specific wording gave carte blanche for hiring mercenaries and attracting the personal forces of various lords, ladies, and others as well as seeking allies with Clarent's neighbors. This was followed by a small trickle of forces released into the Seventh and promotions for many survivors.
You are one such officer, loyal to one of the Five, you seek to make you fame and fortune in the ruins of this war at Clarent's expense. Be brutal, be cunning, be unpredictable, because Clarent is rebuilding their ruined land to wipe you off the face of the map, and they will not be your only problem…
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51536b No.44489
>>44488
FACTIONS
The Church of Grond - Grond is the God of Domination, Brutality, Conquest and Rule. His is one and main church of the Empire. Humans make up a large part of his faithful and not so faithful. It is standard practice for all clerics of his to serve in the army for a few years, or even longer. Officially only those of the faith are allowed to be part of the Imperial Army in fact, due to the Church's immense width, breadth and influence. However as long as you know the basics of the faith and ape through following it, you too can join the Army! The Church of Grond as such typically fields a wide variety of units and heroes, even those that would not normally be part of their bailiwick because of them being the catch all for most humans. However the upper Echelons are still in large part dominated by Grond's Clergy. As such they are a high amount of strong Clerics, demons and Blackguards as heroes and elites.
Pros
-Strong elites and Heroes with solid variety
- Fairly structured
-You can get divine boons from Grond with some piety and luck
-Very large troop spread to draw from.
Cons
-Needs supply lines
-Troops need training
-Vulnerable to Holy and anti-evil effects
-can be challenged if you fail to uphold the divine tenants
Great Horde - The horde has waxed and waned sicne time immemorial, driven by its denizen's drive to kill plunder, rape and gorw strong, it bashed itself against the Empire repeatedly until The Emperor broke it's cheif and bent it to his will. Now Gundebax the current chief controls the horde and embodies the orcish and orc-kin deities of might and power. The greenskins and their kin and allies are numerous, fecund and brutish. Naturally stronger and tougher than most in exchange for in general being slower of wit and less industrious. They respect only strength of arms, and can and will challenge them at any time.
Pros
-LOTS of standard units
-Don't need much for supplies
-Don't need much if any training
-Can recruit more troops easily
Cons
-Elites and heroes may challenge you to rule at literally any time
-Gear it typically pretty crap
- You have few spell casting or sneak troops
-Your forces are less an army than a mob, morale is VERY swingy
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51536b No.44490
>>44489
Undead of the Archlich - Thrayze is ancient even by the standards of lichdom. He was ancient even when the Emperor walked the earth freely, being the court wizard of the time. He is as mad as he is brilliant, and vice versa, his intellect forming and hatching subtle and vicious plans when not distracted by arcane lore or the workings of an undead of an automaton. His followers are all manner of undead and necromancers, fueling his army of undead to acquire more lore for him at his behest.
Pros
-Hordes of units
-Can turn defeated enemies into soldiers of your own
-Don't need supply lines
-Don't need training
-Morale is non issue for the mooks
Cons
-Eccentric leader who can confiscate things for study (you may or may not get them back)
-VERY weak to holy and unholy
-more advanced undead take more to make and maintain
-Loss of a necromancer means loss of his bound units (unless they are self sustaining which means they need to eat people)
Scions of the Dragon Queen - Svezen'la'hareth is the other member of the council old enough to remember the Emperor. It was she who saw his growing power and decided that she would allow herself to bargain with him instead of crushing him. This was wise because the last five dragons to fight him died horribly, his cape made from their heartscales. Since she joined the empire she and her progeny has flourished, her horde growing ever larger as her spawn and zealous subjects have spread across the land increasing her influence power.
Pros
-Mooks have no morale
-Elites/heroes are strong, highly mobile and hit hard
-You can find valuable items and resources easier
Cons
-Units have poor upgrade progression
-Heroes and Elites are difficult to manage and placate, especially without gifts of loot
-The queen demands tribute at times
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51536b No.44491
>>44490
Drow of Mandozelan - The Drow, treacherous, illusive and cruel denizens of the darkness beanth the surface of the world. Mendozelan long has been beneath the empire and instead of scorning it and raiding it like other cities sought to trade with it and work with it at times. This saved it from destruction during a purge and the Matriarch of the city selling out several other cities earned her a spot on the council. The Drow rarely fight directly in the army, typically are support caster, assassins or other types of indirect combatants, leaving the direct fight to other from the under dark like deep ones, ithilid or hulks.
Pros
-great indirect combat troops
-can hire mercenaries from below
-many units have poison and/or stealth
-your supply lines are hard to disrupt
Cons
-Generally poorer in direct battle
-Your subordiantes are always plotting and politicking behind your back
-Poisons and rarer re-agents for magic can be expensive
-Sunlight SUUUUCKS
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51536b No.44492
>>44491
CHARACTER SHEET
Name: (This is the name your character will be known by. You may have more than one, but please keep it limited)
Faction: (which of the five factions you are apart of. No you cannot be on your own. )
Race: (What species you are or type of undead. Must be a non-summon and self sustaining entity. No liches, VAmpire Lords [normal ones are ok], no demons, no dragons older than adult, etc. Keep you rank as a younger officer in mind and do not try to be overpowered from the start. You are not a direct underling of your faction bosses.)
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History: (what your character is about and how s/he ended up here. Must make sense, more is better.)
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This is meant to be mostly serious. No meme characters. Characters are subject to my approval.
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51536b No.44493
>>44492
Oh also 2x players per faction limit of 10 first come first serve
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8de1bb No.44494
Name: Gal'golath
Faction: Scions of the Dragon Queen
Race: Young Green Dragon
Class: Dragon/Wizard
History: Gal'golath is a young green dragon, and the runt of the clutch to boot. Thankfully like many green dragons he had a sharp mind, and he used this to his advantage. He rapidly learned the ways of magic and strategy. Due to this he was given a chance to serve the queen in Clarent despite being young and untested.
Gal'golath is as greedy and prideful as his brethren, but he is much more of a show off. Where other dragons would hide their horde in swamps or caves filled with traps Gal'golath plans to take over a city and make it into his horde. He will make a gem of one of these cities and it will forever be his.
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2e23d7 No.44497
Name: Reynauld - The Hammer of Grond, The Apostate
Faction: The Church
Race: Human
Class: Frontline General and Shock Troop
History: Reynauld was born in the Empire, far from the once vibrant hills of Clarent. He was raised in small hamlet on the outer edges of a vast wood in one of the empires many territories, and it was on this same patch of land that he would build his own family. A loving wife and a young son, only a babe when his father left. As is wont in the Empire who venerates a god of conquest, a crusade was declared on some trivial nation in the east, and Reynauld was one of many who answered the call. With only a pair of leather bracers, a tunic, and a long sword, he set out to join the newly formed crusade. For years he fought in the army to subdue foreign lands and throw down the idols of weaker gods. He burned strange people (and things that weren't even people) out of their homes, salted their fields, and destroyed their livelihoods just like all those beside him. Yet unlike these men, Reynauld was different. He possessed that most uncanny abilities of the fodder that composed the crusader armies; He was good. Good with his sword, good with his tactics, and when the time came to "discuss" matters with his superiors, good with his words. It was this skill that saw him rise in the ranks, until he was the commander of a small army of several hundred men in one of the more recent campaigns of the Empire. It was here that he earned one of his monikers, the one spoken aloud by those who both know and do not know Reynauld. "The Hammer of Grond" Reynauld thought the name egregious, and in line with his other moniker, trivial. It was in a valiant action, where he and several dozen of his best men, brought down a section of a vast fortress's reputedly impenetrable gate with a battering ram in the visage of the hand of Grond himself. A sally sent out to stop the ram saw most of Reynauld's men slaughtered, but it was he alone who managed to swing the final blow that cracked the gates, allowing the rest of the army to flow into the city like a malignant flood of steel and blood, sacking it like so many before, and so many after.
It was also on this day that Reynauld gained his second moniker, "The Apostate", though this was spoken only to himself in hushed whispers. Why had he and his men had to have been the ones to bash in the gates of this infernal city, why in the midst of battle did the god of conquest and rule send mortals and demonic servants in his stead? Why would a being of unimaginable power rely on beings of limited life to do his bidding? Reynauld did not question the existence of Grond, he merely no longer subscribed to the teachings of the Church. He still kept up appearances by all means, which is why he ended up in Clarent instead of in the Imperial Capital on a pyre; albiet in a much reduced role as a leader of a cavalry wing. It was also this that allowed him to survive the uprising and subsequent purge of Imperial forces in the now rebellious province of Clarent, as while the slaves of Grond and his "church" were busy observing their daily benefactions to the God of Rule, Reynauld was already checking his gear and polishing his faithful longsword. So when the rebels burst into the barracks with their long knives and swords, while his peers fell to them Reynauld was able to fight his way out and make for the countryside, rallying with other survivors in the city of Karagan. News of the lack of further Imperial support did not surprise Reynauld, as he at this point had already realized that the supposed "strength" of the Empire of Grond was just as real as that of the strength of Grond himself. It was the men beside him who won these battles, not Grond. It was the brave souls dying in droves to beat down the doors of impenetrable keeps that they wrote songs about, not religion, not the Church, and damn well not Grond. The Seventh would win back the land of Clarent, and just as every other time Reynauld marched off to war, he would do it without the support of some incorporeal "god". Grond had never helped Reynauld, or anyone else for that matter, in the past, and he bloody well wasn't going to start now.
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1a24c4 No.44499
>>44488
Can I play as the character I made in the first thread?
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e55e52 No.44500
>>44488
>>44488
Name: Vangelis the "firebrand"
Faction: Church of Grond (formerly drow)
Race: Human
Class: Spellblade (desires to become a blackguard)
History: Vangelis was a lowly slave soldier for the drow where he used his skill with both blade and evocation to destroy their foes. Unsurprisingly Vangelis did not find this arrangement satisfying and throughout the Clarent campaign used his secret talents in enchantment and his powerful personality to slowly subvert the slaves against their masters. During the mass route after the capital had revealed their trap, Vangelis used this opportunity to rally the rebellion leaders against the drow while they were vulnerable. During the ensuing conflict all the leaders were "tragically" killed in their fight for freedom with Vangelis appearing to be a hero to the former slaves. With no rivals to contest him for leadership he immediately took over the army and pledged his allegiance to the Church of Grond for protection against the drow and to gain legitimacy.
As a sign of his aspirations of becoming a true blackguard his closest ally, a cleric of Grond named Amatus who rallied to Vangelis after his declaration of faith, bequeathed unto him a consecrated set of armor and weaponry that shall grow in power as he gains more favor. Vangelis shall gain this favor by subjugating both the drow and the Clarent along with their slaves and hostages respectively. Under the guise of freedom Vangelis shall bind all to his will.
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51536b No.44501
>>44499
Run it by me in discord or post a prelim pastebin so I can see it
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1a24c4 No.44502
>>44501
It's in the first thread. Just ctrl+f ash
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1a24c4 No.44503
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51536b No.44504
>>44503
Needs a pretty bad retool. Tykebomb super savant warrior turned messiah is not going to work.
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1a24c4 No.44505
>>44504
What's a tykebomb, also I really don't plan on converting people, only a small fringe cult that will maybe or maybe not kick off, probably long after my death (^:
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51536b No.44506
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1a24c4 No.44507
>>44505
>>44504
Okay, you're right, shoehorning Christianity into this setting is feh. What if I get rid of the Christ part and am just a lawful evil-neutral guy?
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51536b No.44508
>>44507
Gimme a rewrite an we'll see.
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1a24c4 No.44509
>>44508
fug, I wrote a lot. Can I save a spot pls bb since I joined last game?
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51536b No.44510
>>44509
First come first serve m8 sorry.
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29da35 No.44511
>>44492
CHARACTER SHEET
Name: Karadun Knightburner
Faction: Great Horde
Race: Ogre Magi
Class: Warrior/Sorcerer
History: Ogres are the biggest and dumbest of the orckin races, prone to being used as little more then cannon fodder by the smaller but smarter races, however one in ever ten thousand is born a ogre magi, one blessed with magic. Karadun is one ogre and has grown in rank within the Horde by a combination of martial prowess and raw magical power. His favored tactic is luring in the elite knights of enemy armies before igniting a large area with magic burning the knights in their armor and any of his army caught fighting them.
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b4ead5 No.44512
Name: "General" Ugluck-Rokk Smasha
Faction: Great Horde
Race: Mountain Ogre
Class: "General of da Arty'"
History: There is such a thing as "Too Big" for its own good, and that would be the Mountain Ogre. While it is accurate to say ogres are biggest and dumbest of the Orckin races, mountain Ogres take it a step further, being noted as the biggest of the Ogre species but unfortunately, also the slowest in both literal speed and lack of intellect. Scholars suggest based on autopsies of the hard, literally stone like scales and bones that line the Mountain Ogres body is that it is more closely related to a Rock Elemental than an Ogre, possibly as the result of some ancient spell or unfathomable breeding accident.
At least regular Ogres run on instinct, to charge and barrel through men and defense, and swing their weapons with ferocious speed. Not so for the Mountain Ogre, who is more apt to walk even through hail of arrows and javelins, only intelligent enough to swing around a big tree trunk or a large boulder in their hand than proper weapons skill like a sword or a fail.
The problem with having thick armored skin and flesh like stone, huge reserves of health, and almost no sense of pain is that very readily you aren't aware of how injured and maimed you are. It doesn't matter if most of your body can deflect arrows and blades if you allow them pin cushion the vulnerable joints, eyes, ears and mouth. Thus you see Mountain Ogres stumbling about sometimes blind or deaf with hundreds of arrows and spears and cuts sticking on heads and body, too injured and slow to be any much of a threat and too stupid to remember to at least raise your arm to protect his face. Sadly, some Ogres ended up killing the most amount of people by simply falling upon a mass of them in death.
This is where Ugluck comes into the picture. Every now and then, a smart Ogre comes along to lead his people (or what is left of them with the other intelligent ones come to lead em). He did something only one in a thousand Mountain Mountain Ogres ever do, he sat down and thought! An exceptional rarity and a prodigy among Mountain Ogres.
"We iz getting killed from afar. We should kill DEM from afar!"
This single thought marked a breakthrough in Mountain Ogre thinking (and also marked an instance of Mountain Ogre thinking).
With his brillian idea, he would lead Mountain Ogres to gather big boulders, "Roks" in big piles. Some as small as horses others as big as a house. Then when a battle came, the Mountain Ogres would "Pick up da rokks and throw them!" from very far away. It was a very effective change in tactic. Now the Mountain Ogres were killing much more than they were killed, squashing enemies flat, even the fidgety elves who they despise most of all. "See ya gits, dey'z pointy ears can dodge ya when yez try ta swing yer tree or smash em with fist. But dey can't dodge roks falling like rain from da sky!"
Riding on the influence success brought him, he became a Mountain Ogres Chief, and a self style "General of da' Arty" after picking up several imperial uniforms from an unfortunate general and his cadre of officers whose tent was in the wrong place and under the wrong boulder. He had a goblin stitch them together to wear on his body.
His next bright idea was to strike an alliance with the clever goblins. Goblins are something of the craftsmen of the Horde, if such a thing can be said of any of the Horde. Not nearly a dwarven smith by any means, but they know enough of the axe and wood to make catapaults. And that's exactly what Ugluck wanted. The goblins now produce a type of catapault for the Mountain Ogres One simple enough for their little brains to comprehend, able to be dragged on the ground by Mountain Ogres. "Put da rock in da throwey bit. Then you pull down on the other end. It throws da rokk". This greatly increased their range and devastation even further, which was already considerable.
Ugluck leads his group of Mountain Ogres in throwing huge boulders and stones, some survivors have said the sky turns dark from so many of them flying through the sky (although probably more accurately it was just a big enough Rock to make the sun dark on where they were standing). The Mountain Ogres and Goblins share a sense of pride and enjoyment in this style of warfare, laughing at the attempts to flee from falling tonnes of stones, and are always curious after a battle to lift up the underside and see what was smashed underneath it.
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b67d1e No.44520
Name: Dr. Bartholomew Fenkelstein
Faction: Undead of the Archlich
Race: Formerly human, now undead/necropolitan
Class: Mad scientist/necromancer
History: Dr. Bartholomew Fenkelstein, more commonly known as just Dr. Fenkelstein, was once a respected wizard and scholar amongst the people of Clarent, devising many magical potions and spells and authoring many mystical tomes explaining the mysteries of the world. However, everything changed when the Empire attacked. He was killed in the initial raids and brought back to life by the powers of the Archlich. His mind was warped and twisted by the necromantic powers, leading him to become much more sadistic and deranged than he he ever could have been in life. Instead of making miracle cures, he now stitches together undead monstrosities using his necromantic powers and great intellect. Now he has joined the ranks of the Seventh Legion, eager to begin collecting "test subjects" to be slain and revived as horrific abominations to torment the lands of Clarent and gather ever more subjects so that Dr. Fenkelstein can create even more monstrosities to add to his horde.
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98a2d6 No.44521
>>44492
Name: Brittany
Faction: Drow of Mandozelan
Race: Drow
Class: Questionmark?
History:
Brittany is the daughter of a Drow noble and unusually naive for someone in her position, even by not-Drow standards. An oblivious child she enjoyed wearing pretty dresses and listening to gossip about nobles and other people of relevance, rather than spreading gossip herself. At some point due to her naive nature rumor had it that there was some not-Drow blood in her lineage, a rumor which her mother had quickly and brutally squashed.
To avoid any further embarassment her mother forced Brittany to join the Army in order to draw first blood and leave behind her childish demeanor, hoping that she would take a liking to the finer things in life such as torture and murder.
While somewhat poorly adjusted to subordinates who frequently try to plot against her the one thing Brittany tends to do even more than talk is listen and surprisingly few things within the vast armies of Evil remain hidden from her for long.
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bada9f No.44525
Claiming undead slot for my vampire dragon
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bada9f No.44527
>>44488
Name: Azaak R'kash
Faction: Undead
Race: Vampire dragon
Class: Necromancer
History: Azaak was an ambitious young dragon who thirsted for power and wealth. This thirst ended up with him in possession of a certain relic taken from what turned out to be the Lair of the Vampire Tarkand. Tarkand did not take this well and ended up turning Azaak to use him as an eternal servant and lieutenant. Plotting some kind of revenge Azaak never got to try his plans out as Tarkand met his end in the Ill-fated attack that turned the war. Now once again hungry for power and wealth Azaak leads his undead to bring him closer to the top.
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fd461f No.44530
Name: Givad Gul'ried
Faction: Scions of the Dragon Queen
Race: Dragon (Gold)
Class: Warrior? Dragon Warrior?
History: Givad Gul'ried is a young, golden dragon of purer blood than some of the other hatchlings of his generation, born from a nest that did not accept anything less but peak performance and loyalty to the Queen. Givad, though a fervent follower of his Queen, is sometimes regarded by his brothers as being a bit more underhanded and sly for a dragon. Though he has yet to prove himself in the fields of battle, he's already done good work making a small following for himself within the Scions, speaking with a golden tongue and keeping in good communication with those who would further his ambitions - ambitions that may one day shift the balances of power within the draconic hordes. He has a natural charisma , majesty and nobility to him that beguiles the dark intent he has for his race.
But what could such a young whelp do? Only time will tell.
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b1f725 No.44531
Name: Dipirahc Kenath
Faction: Drow
Race: Drow
Class: (only for those applicable)
History: Dipirahc, or Dip as he is known to the few associates he allows close to him and his wife, is the husband of a powerful priestess and clan leader in a somewhat unknown and not so great city of the underdark. Unlike many families he is not treated as little more than a muscle and breeding slave but is treated with with respect as an almost equal by his wife making him ferverantly loyal to her in contrast to most drow relationships. His wife sent him to the surface so as to bring more wealth and power for her from the council. His primary job and goal is not to “win” the war but to build riches and a powerful army to bring back home and wipe out the 2 families currently above their own in the city. His army largely consists of non drow preferring them over his kindred as he does not trust other drow. He will generally only keep other drow around for contacts and a few sub commanders for the few he does “trust” (and of course driders). This has hampered his ability to work within his faction but has made it a little easier to work with the other factions, since he learned from his wife to at least pretending to see other people as equals will make them less likely to betray you.
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Lieutenants:
Abilities:
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51536b No.44551
>>44494
Forces: 300 Kobold zealots
Lieutenants: None
Abilities: Flight, Breath weapons, natural weapons, superior senses
Skills: Basic evocation, Skilled tactics
Reputation: Up and comer
Bonus: Ostentation of Opulence: You like gold and show it off, this boosts your chance to recruit minions and improves relations with others of your faction, but also increases the chance of someone nicking your stuff.
>>44497
Forces: 150 Men At Arms
Lieutenants: Durax, Wizard
Abilities: N/a
Skills: Skilled swordsmanship, Skilled tactics
Reputation: Someone to watch carefully, for many reasons
Bonus: Fuck you, I'll do it myself - You doubt in Grond and his church's teaching this strains your relationship with much of the church in general, but improves it with those who too doubt it, for good or ill. Additionally, instead of rolling for divine intervention you roll for (un)Heroic second wind in case of an emergency.
>>44500
Forces: 200 freed slaves of variety of races
Lieutenants: Mari'll, Elven Rogue
Abilities: Na
Skills: Basic swordsmanship, Basic Evocation, Basic tactics,
Reputation: Up and comer and Drow hater
Bonus: Firebrand- Something about your words runs deeply into the hearts of the downtrodden and oppressed, you gain minions and lower level followers more easily, at the expense of higher level ones typically not wanting to deal with your shit.
>>44511
Forces: 300 goblins, 50 Orcs
Lieutenants: none
Abilities: Natural Magic, Great strength and endurance
Skills: Skilled Evocation, Skilled Macemanship
Reputation: Mutant Brute
Bonus: Knightslayer - Gain bonus enemies ranked knight or higher, however if one is on the field and is fighting you, you MUST fight them back tot he best of your ability, expect your troops to suffer without a leader.
>>44512
Forces: 150 Goblins
Elites 10 Ogres
Lieutenants: Stabsquee, Goblin engineer.
Abilities: Great strength and endurance.
Skills: Basic siege, Basic tactics, Basic Smushing things
Reputation: It can Think?!?!
Bonus: It can Think?!?! - Gain bonuses on coming up with and training your brethren on simple tactics. Complicated ones still hurt your brain.
>>44520
Forces: 50 zombies, 10 Basic abominations
Lieutenants: none
Abilities: unnatural vigor, Natural weapons, night vision
Skills: Skilled biomancy, skilled necromancy
Reputation: Freaky mad scientist the boneheads like to attract
Bonus: Thinker, not a fighter: You are brilliant! this allows you to make and create new monsters more easily, at the expense of all that book learning making you kinda shit at fighting in general.
>>44521
Forces: 150 Drow Women at arms
Lieutenants: None
Abilities: Night vision, stealthy step
Skills: Skilled stealth, Basic daggering, basic tactics
Reputation: Who?
Bonus: Listen, and learn- You're a nonentity among the drow making it hard for you to attract new troops, but you listen so very well, schemes and plots against you suffer for it greatly.
>>44527
Forces: 200 Skeletons 100 Zombies
Lieutenants: Granth: Human Necromancer
Abilities: Superior senses, smoke form, Call creatures of the night, natural weapons, Flight, breath weapons
Skills: Basic tactics, Basic necromancy, basic combat
Reputation: That thrall of Tarkand's.
Bonus: Vampire dragon- You are a Dragon Vampire, this costs you a lot of face with your former racial associates, but makes you very impressive to your new allies of the dead.
>>44530
Forces: 300 Kobold Zealots
Lieutenants: none
Abilities: Superior senses, Breath weapons, natural weapons, flight
Skills: Basic combat, Basic diplomacy, Basic Tactics
Reputation: Aren't they supposed to be on the other side?
Bonus: Treacherous words: You're good at getting into people's heads and dang regal to boot, bonus to talking to others, assuming you can get past their guards given your coloration…
>>44531
Forces: 100 Drow women at arms
Lieutenants: Syrena, Drow Spellblade, Morena, Drow Cleric
Abilities: Night visions, stealthy stride
Skills: Skilled Archery, basic tactics, basic Diplomacy, basic daggery
Reputation: I didn't even know they had male Drow nobles….
Bonus- I am a MAN! - As a man in Drow society your are much more likely to suffer attempts to usurp your command, but they also have the atrocious habit of underestimating you.
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51536b No.44552
>>44551
Still working on opener so gimme a few and do not post
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51536b No.44567
>>44552
Everyone of you as well as quite a few other Junior officers are brought to the Main hall of the keep of Steadfast, the only city of Clarent the Seventh still holds. You see within a rather large campaign maps on the main table as well as one Knight Commander Kerad. Leader of the Nightmare Calvary for the church of Grond, and one of the few senior officers still extent in the campaign. He turns to his rapidly assembled audience.
"You lot are all here, good. Long and short of it no help is coming from the Empire. We had this campaign in the palm of our hands until we cocked it up with be too fucking impatient, so now we're to clean up this mess on our own or die trying." He levels a steely stare at all of you, and none yet try to take him to task for it.
He then grabs some documents by hiss ide and waves his hand. An imp of Grond takes them and begins to pas them out to the audience. "Because of that I've been made acting General of this Gronddamned shit show, and my first order is giving you sorry lots commissions as captains. We need more officer and more men. The only reason the Clarentians have not come to clean our clock is because of the number we did on them coming in and they still think we have support. If we don't have our situation unfucked by the time they've gotten themselves unfucked we're all dead. or redead in the case of the corpsefuckers," he adds as several undead bristle noticeably.
"So what I want you lot to do is take your commands and secure supplies by any means necessary from the hills of Crassack or from The city of Grentel and it surrounding towns. We need more of everything and we left a lot of units, supplies an d other sundry things behind as they booted our asses back here. Gather them together and put the hurt on those light fearing lickspittles. I want you to delay their counterstrike as long as possible." He commands.
He turns around and starts walking away, "I expect most of you to be ashes by the end of the month, but those of you who survive and manage not to shit this up will be rewards. Get the fuck out of my office, dismissed."
Campaign Goals:
-Acquire Supplies
-Acquire personnel
-Dismantle and delay the recovering Clarent War industry
-Survive
You are currently at Steadfast.
Action's are 2d100
You can go solo or group up as you see fit. Remember, Smaller bands are less noticeable but much easier to destroy.
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6f1f7b No.44568
 | Rolled 82, 1 = 83 (2d100) |
>>44567
Name: Karadun Knightburner
Faction: Great Horde
Race: Ogre Magi
Class: Warrior/Sorcerer
History: Ogres are the biggest and dumbest of the orckin races, prone to being used as little more then cannon fodder by the smaller but smarter races, however one in every ten thousand is born a ogre magi, one blessed with magic. Karadun is one such ogre and has grown in rank within the Horde by a combination of martial prowess and raw magical power. His favored tactic is luring in the elite knights of enemy armies before igniting a large area with magic burning the knights in their armor and any of his army caught fighting them.
Forces: 300 goblins, 50 Orcs
Lieutenants: none
Abilities: Natural Magic, Great strength and endurance
Skills: Skilled Evocation, Skilled Macemanship
Reputation: Mutant Brute
Bonus: Knightslayer - Gain bonus enemies ranked knight or higher, however if one is on the field and is fighting you, you MUST fight them back to the best of your ability, expect your troops to suffer without a leader.
—–
1-2. Karadun will head into the hills with his band of miscreants, among the hills he would search for the harsh tribes that dwelt there no matter the race before murdering their chieftains and press ganging their warriors in his service. For villages that had no warriors they would have one choice, hand over the majority of their foods stocks or die.
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b67d1e No.44569
| Rolled 27, 89 = 116 (2d100) |
Name: Dr. Bartholomew Fenkelstein
Faction: Undead of the Archlich
Race: Formerly human, now undead/necropolitan
Class: Mad scientist/necromancer
History: Dr. Bartholomew Fenkelstein, more commonly known as just Dr. Fenkelstein, was once a respected wizard and scholar amongst the people of Clarent, devising many magical potions and spells and authoring many mystical tomes explaining the mysteries of the world. However, everything changed when the Empire attacked. He was killed in the initial raids and brought back to life by the powers of the Archlich. His mind was warped and twisted by the necromantic powers, leading him to become much more sadistic and deranged than he he ever could have been in life. Instead of making miracle cures, he now stitches together undead monstrosities using his necromantic powers and great intellect. Now he has joined the ranks of the Seventh Legion, eager to begin collecting "test subjects" to be slain and revived as horrific abominations to torment the lands of Clarent and gather ever more subjects so that Dr. Fenkelstein can create even more monstrosities to add to his horde.
Forces: 50 zombies, 10 Basic abominations
Lieutenants: none
Abilities: unnatural vigor, Natural weapons, night vision
Skills: Skilled biomancy, skilled necromancy
Reputation: Freaky mad scientist the boneheads like to attract
Bonus: Thinker, not a fighter: You are brilliant! this allows you to make and create new monsters more easily, at the expense of all that book learning making you kinda shit at fighting in general.
Oh yeeeees, very good, I finally got all the damn paperwork out of the way and now I can conduct my research! The great Dr. Bartholomew Fenkelstein can now work his miracles once more! MWAHAHAHAHA!
1. But wait, what kind of GREAT SCIENTIST doesn't have an assistant!? I should go find myself a great scholar of these lands, almost as brilliant as myself, and turn him over to the side of EVIL! Or, failing that, I can always just make one.
2. I'm also running dreadfully low on parts and specimens, I'll need more if I want to do my research…plus this gives the perfect chance for me to test drive my new creations..I'll just go ahead and let them loose for a bit…oh, but I should be sure to tell them to bring me the corpses, they should be able to follow a simple order as playing fetch, after all I was the one who stitched them back together!
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d61580 No.44570
| Rolled 19, 73 = 92 (2d100) |
>>44551
Name: Brittany
Faction: Drow of Mandozelan
Race: Drow
Class: Questionmark?
History:
It's complicated.
Forces:
+ 150 Drow Women at Arms
Lieutenants: None
Abilities: Night Vision, Stealthy Step
Skills: Skilled Stealth, Basic Daggering, Basic Tactics
Reputation: Who?
Bonus: Listen, and learn- You're a nonentity among the drow making it hard for you to attract new troops, but you listen so very well, schemes and plots against you suffer for it greatly.
1-2. Brittany would head West towards the nearby city. Laying siege to it would be more than pointless with her less than sufficient forces. Surely someone must have noticed that the city was closest to the remains of the Empire's forces and they would either be fleeing the city or bringing in more supplies for a prolongued siege. Either way Brittany would use her Drow at Arms to lay ambush to any supply caravans or refugees. They would take whatever they could grab, including the people and vanish into the night. With a bit of luck the Clarent would be distracted by some of the less clandestine 7th Army forces.
If they ran out of luck and only managed to nab refugees Brittany was certain someone in this moloch of an army would be willing to trade more useful goods for humans. Whether it be as slaves or food.
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b67d1e No.44571
>>44569
Do this OUTSIDE the city, preferably in less-defended areas
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b67d1e No.44572
>>44569
>>44571
LESS DEFENDED ENEMY SETTLEMENTS TO THE WEST
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e55e52 No.44576
| Rolled 76, 32 = 108 (2d100) |
>>44567
Name: Vangelis the "firebrand"
Faction: Church of Grond (formerly drow)
Race: Human
Class: Spellblade (desires to become a blackguard)
History: Vangelis was a lowly slave soldier for the drow where he used his skill with both blade and evocation to destroy their foes. Unsurprisingly Vangelis did not find this arrangement satisfying and throughout the Clarent campaign used his secret talents in enchantment and his powerful personality to slowly subvert the slaves against their masters. During the mass route after the capital had revealed their trap, Vangelis used this opportunity to rally the rebellion leaders against the drow while they were vulnerable. During the ensuing conflict all the leaders were "tragically" killed in their fight for freedom with Vangelis appearing to be a hero to the former slaves. With no rivals to contest him for leadership he immediately took over the army and pledged his allegiance to the Church of Grond for protection against the drow and to gain legitimacy.
As a sign of his aspirations of becoming a true blackguard his closest ally, a cleric of Grond named Amatus who rallied to Vangelis after his declaration of faith, bequeathed unto him a consecrated set of armor and weaponry that shall grow in power as he gains more favor. Vangelis shall gain this favor by subjugating both the drow and the Clarent along with their slaves and hostages respectively. Under the guise of freedom Vangelis shall bind all to his will.
Forces: 200 freed slaves of variety of races
Lieutenants: Mari'll, Elven Rogue
Abilities: Na
Skills: Basic swordsmanship, Basic Evocation, Basic tactics,
Reputation: Up and comer and Drow hater
Bonus: Firebrand- Something about your words runs deeply into the hearts of the downtrodden and oppressed, you gain minions and lower level followers more easily, at the expense of higher level ones typically not wanting to deal with your shit.
1. Recruit the city folk into the army
Firebrand
2. train the freemen into something more respectable and bring them closer to Grond
basic tactics, Firebrand
"Hear me people of Steadfast! Grond gives you the opportunity to slacken the shackles of destiny and be able to rule your own fate! Those who have dared to make trespasses against you shall tremble when you take up axe and spear for they know that you will show no mercy and will suffer dearly for it! Through conquest the heathens shall bow down and beg for succor showing where true power lies! If you are a man enough to accept this gift than join us on our grand crusade!"
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2e23d7 No.44577
>>44567
Name: Reynauld - The Hammer of Grond, The Apostate
Faction: The Church
Race: Human
Class: Frontline General and Shock Troop
History: Reynauld was born in the Empire, far from the once vibrant hills of Clarent. He was raised in small hamlet on the outer edges of a vast wood in one of the empires many territories, and it was on this same patch of land that he would build his own family. A loving wife and a young son, only a babe when his father left. As is wont in the Empire who venerates a god of conquest, a crusade was declared on some trivial nation in the east, and Reynauld was one of many who answered the call. With only a pair of leather bracers, a tunic, and a long sword, he set out to join the newly formed crusade. For years he fought in the army to subdue foreign lands and throw down the idols of weaker gods. He burned strange people (and things that weren't even people) out of their homes, salted their fields, and destroyed their livelihoods just like all those beside him. Yet unlike these men, Reynauld was different. He possessed that most uncanny abilities of the fodder that composed the crusader armies; He was good. Good with his sword, good with his tactics, and when the time came to "discuss" matters with his superiors, good with his words. It was this skill that saw him rise in the ranks, until he was the commander of a small army of several hundred men in one of the more recent campaigns of the Empire. It was here that he earned one of his monikers, the one spoken aloud by those who both know and do not know Reynauld. "The Hammer of Grond" Reynauld thought the name egregious, and in line with his other moniker, trivial. It was in a valiant action, where he and several dozen of his best men, brought down a section of a vast fortress's reputedly impenetrable gate with a battering ram in the visage of the hand of Grond himself. A sally sent out to stop the ram saw most of Reynauld's men slaughtered, but it was he alone who managed to swing the final blow that cracked the gates, allowing the rest of the army to flow into the city like a malignant flood of steel and blood, sacking it like so many before, and so many after.
It was also on this day that Reynauld gained his second moniker, "The Apostate", though this was spoken only to himself in hushed whispers. Why had he and his men had to have been the ones to bash in the gates of this infernal city, why in the midst of battle did the god of conquest and rule send mortals and demonic servants in his stead? Why would a being of unimaginable power rely on beings of limited life to do his bidding? Reynauld did not question the existence of Grond, he merely no longer subscribed to the teachings of the Church. He still kept up appearances by all means, which is why he ended up in Clarent instead of in the Imperial Capital on a pyre; albiet in a much reduced role as a leader of a cavalry wing. It was also this that allowed him to survive the uprising and subsequent purge of Imperial forces in the now rebellious province of Clarent, as while the slaves of Grond and his "church" were busy observing their daily benefactions to the God of Rule, Reynauld was already checking his gear and polishing his faithful longsword. So when the rebels burst into the barracks with their long knives and swords, while his peers fell to them Reynauld was able to fight his way out and make for the countryside, rallying with other survivors in the city of Karagan. News of the lack of further Imperial support did not surprise Reynauld, as he at this point had already realized that the supposed "strength" of the Empire of Grond was just as real as that of the strength of Grond himself. It was the men beside him who won these battles, not Grond. It was the brave souls dying in droves to beat down the doors of impenetrable keeps that they wrote songs about, not religion, not the Church, and damn well not Grond. The Seventh would win back the land of Clarent, and just as every other time Reynauld marched off to war, he would do it without the support of some incorporeal "god". Grond had never helped Reynauld, or anyone else for that matter, in the past, and he bloody well wasn't going to start now.
Forces: 150 Men At Arms
Lieutenants: Durax, Wizard
Abilities: N/a
Skills: Skilled swordsmanship, Skilled tactics
Reputation: Someone to watch carefully, for many reasons
Bonus: Fuck you, I'll do it myself - You doubt in Grond and his church's teaching. This strains your relationship with much of the church in general, but improves it with those who too doubt it, for good or ill. Additionally, instead of rolling for divine intervention you roll for (un)Heroic second wind in case of an emergency.
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2e23d7 No.44578
| Rolled 98, 51 = 149 (2d100) |
1. The enemy will no doubt be eager to test our strength after that fight, and most likely already have scouting parties out searching for our army or any signs of what we're up too. Reynauld had dealt with this issue before, and would handle it the same way then as he did now. Well armed parties of his best men, laying in ambush around the country side and scouting on their own, after crushing the feeble men of this land we would hang their corpses from the trees along the paths, or failing that crucify them. Doing so would have a twofold result; Keep the enemy blind to our actions,
And make them fear…
2. After that, Reynauld would venture the countryside with his retinue, offering the men of the villages a new life in the service of the empire, with the promise that men such as them may rise from a lowly peasant to one such as myself, commander of armies and razer of cities. Those that join will join us in the return to the city to train into proper men, those that decline shall either give tribute, or face the consequences…
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fd461f No.44580
| Rolled 84, 85 = 169 (2d100) |
>>44567
Name: Givad Gul'ried
Faction: Scions of the Dragon Queen
Race: Dragon (Gold)
Class: Warrior? Dragon Warrior?
History: Givad Gul'ried is a young, golden dragon of purer blood than some of the other hatchlings of his generation, born from a nest that did not accept anything less but peak performance and loyalty to the Queen. Givad, though a fervent follower of his Queen, is sometimes regarded by his brothers as being a bit more underhanded and sly for a dragon. Though he has yet to prove himself in the fields of battle, he's already done good work making a small following for himself within the Scions, speaking with a golden tongue and keeping in good communication with those who would further his ambitions - ambitions that may one day shift the balances of power within the draconic hordes. He has a natural charisma , majesty and nobility to him that beguiles the dark intent he has for his race.
But what could such a young whelp do? Only time will tell.
Forces: 300 Kobold Zealots
Lieutenants: none
Abilities: Superior senses, Breath weapons, natural weapons, flight
Skills: Basic combat, Basic diplomacy, Basic Tactics
Reputation: Aren't they supposed to be on the other side?
Bonus: Treacherous Words: You're good at getting into people's heads and dang regal to boot, bonus to talking to others, assuming you can get past their guards given your coloration…
1. Givad was amused, if not somewhat pleased with the forwardness of the other warbands as they moved and scrambled to kick off a campaign against the steadily regrowing Clarent. It signed them off as. . .predictable, but also paved the way into the very heart of the land for which Givad was eager to claim. However, the golden dragon was no fool. As the lesser creatures scramble to carve out new territory, being caught razing villages in their petty lands was bad for business. Better to bide his time, and build his draconic horde in service of the Queen. He and his zealous army took flight to the hills, mountains and highlands to rally more desperate kobolds to the cause of the Queen. Though Givad's treacherous golden scales made things hard enough, he made for a good public speaker.
2. During his time in the mountains, Givad himself would take some time to practice his flight patterns and combat skills. In the eyes of a dragon, faceless mountains made for good target practice. And Givad, as opposed to some his other kin, is perceptive enough to not accidentally slaughter half of his warband in process.
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d3e8c8 No.44585
| Rolled 50, 73 = 123 (2d100) |
Name: "General" Ugluck-Rokk Smasha
Faction: Great Horde
Race: Mountain Ogre
Class: "General of da Arty'"
Forces: 150 Goblins
Elites 10 Ogres
Lieutenants: Stabsquee, Goblin engineer.
Abilities: Great strength and endurance.
Skills: Basic siege, Basic tactics, Basic Smushing things
Reputation: It can Think?!?!
Bonus: It can Think?!?! - Gain bonuses on coming up with and training your brethren on simple tactics. Complicated ones still hurt your brain.
1. Da first thing we needs is Roks. All kindsa Roks. Big roks dat take two hands to throw, and little roks dat take one hand to throw. Gather the Roks boyz!
2. Where's my little un? Da shouty goblin. He's good at shoutin' my orders when I ain't there to do the shoutin'. Runs pretty fast too. Find 'im and bring 'im to me!
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8de1bb No.44586
| Rolled 15, 83 = 98 (2d100) |
>>44551
Name: Gal'golath
Faction: Scions of the Dragon Queen
Race: Young Green Dragon
Class: Dragon/Wizard
History: Gal'golath is a young green dragon, and the runt of the clutch to boot. Thankfully like many green dragons he had a sharp mind, and he used this to his advantage. He rapidly learned the ways of magic and strategy. Due to this he was given a chance to serve the queen in Clarent despite being young and untested.
Gal'golath is as greedy and prideful as his brethren, but he is much more of a show off. Where other dragons would hide their horde in swamps or caves filled with traps Gal'golath plans to take over a city and make it into his horde. He will make a gem of one of these cities and it will forever be his.
Forces: 300 Kobold zealots
Lieutenants: None
Abilities: Flight, Breath weapons, natural weapons, superior senses
Skills: Basic evocation, Skilled tactics
Reputation: Up and comer
Bonus: Ostentation of Opulence: You like gold and show it off, this boosts your chance to recruit minions and improves relations with others of your faction, but also increases the chance of someone nicking your stuff.
1. Head toward the mountains with Azaak.
2. Cast invisibility on myself and Azaak and set off scouting for mining villages in and around the mountains that have yet to fall to the empire.
+Flight
+Enhanced Senses
+Basic Evocation
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bada9f No.44587
| Rolled 62, 44 = 106 (2d100) |
>>44551
Forces: 200 Skeletons 100 Zombies
Lieutenants: Granth: Human Necromancer
Abilities: Superior senses, smoke form, Call creatures of the night, natural weapons, Flight, breath weapons
Skills: Basic tactics, Basic necromancy, basic combat
Reputation: That thrall of Tarkand's.
Bonus: Vampire dragon- You are a Dragon Vampire, this costs you a lot of face with your former racial associates, but makes you very impressive to your new allies of the dead.
1) move out to the Hills with gal’golath.
2) scout for villages and settlements while invisible from the air to find places with supplies, people and graveyards with bodies (places with lots of one should have a lot of the others too)
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8de1bb No.44588
>>44586
addendum, I'm talking about the brown blob to the north.
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bada9f No.44589
| Rolled 58, 24 = 82 (2d100) |
”Felloooooow officeersss of darknessssss. I knowww that glory and plunderssss iss tempting to sssseek out on your own. But I imploreee that you all partneeeer up with an appropriiate officer to ssssafely and more powerfully ssssack and sssubjugate thessse landsss”
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b67d1e No.44590
>>44589
A letter returns to the dragon, with the following written on it.
"Eheheheh, yesss….bring me corpses and I'll cooperate with you as much as you want."
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d3e8c8 No.44592
>>44585
Evidently messengers are already part of the package. So just have the Ogres start ripping up trees from the ground for wood. We'll need for uh. .. things. Lotsa things.
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b1f725 No.44596
| Rolled 55, 78 = 133 (2d100) |
Name: Dipirahc Kenath
Faction: Drow
Race: Drow
Class:? Primarily a bow sometimes a bastard sword
Forces: 100 Drow women at arms
Lieutenants: Syrena, Drow Spellblade, Morena, Drow Cleric
Abilities: Night visions, stealthy stride
Skills: Skilled Archery, basic tactics, basic Diplomacy, basic daggery
Reputation: I didn't even know they had male Drow nobles….
Bonus- I am a MAN! - As a man in Drow society your are much more likely to suffer attempts to usurp your command, but they also have the atrocious habit of underestimating you.
1.2..move into the hills enslaving and looting the small villages we come across.
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51536b No.45318
>>44569
1.You seek out a great mind, someone who shares you passion and could coherently add too your brilliance. The only candidates are either already working for the various paltry "lords" that have sprung up in the absence of true leaders, or have fled to the resurgent Clarent front. You do have ideas to build an assistant, but that take time and supplies you lack.
2. You and your abominations head west towards Grentel. Not too far though, as you find a most charming cave complex on the outskirts of it's reach. Even more lucky you find some legion deserters, who you turn into research specimens with your abominations in short order.
+Cave
+3 human cadavers.
>>44570
1.Brittany's force move west towards Grentel but their progress is slowed by the sun and it's infernal light. still they get within range of the city. However they will need to find shelter soon lest they be caught out in the open.
2.The Drow commander's forces come upon a small farming caravan filled with food and a few young boys and women.
+2 wagons of food
+3 slaves
>>44576
1. You recruit a few young men who are probably too young to fight of yet, and some women to your army. Most of them lost everything when the seventh came in, and the join in desperation more than anything else. You can see a handful who might make a handful of themselves though. More welcome are the various men who lacking a proper over officer look to you now for leadership.
+150 Clarentian Paupers
+25 Trained Men at arms
2.However the training has very poor results, mostly because you're trying to train a large amount of new people who've never held a weapon before. You've made progress but only the new regulars and your lieutenant are any good.
>>44578
1. Reynauld's men are spoiling for blood after the drubbing the seventh took. They fall upon Clarentian scouts with horrible abandon, hacking them up. Often to the point it's dismembered limbs strung up instead of whole bodies.
This campaign while gruesome in the extreme is certainly effective. no more scouts are sent into Steadhold's sphere, at least for now. That will likely change as they solidify their control and mobilize to march, however.
2.Before he can make the rounds towards the villages, he's approach by a quartermaster, one wearing the livery of the Grondite Church.
"You've got a lot of supplies just sitting in my warehouse, and your steeds are stinking up the stables.Come and pick em up!"
You do so perplexed, and find that someone allotted you with enough mounts to mount all you men and have them eating like chiefs for a couple of weeks.
The only thing you find of note on the best steed of the lot whose name is "Brimhoof" meaning there was probably s nightmare a few generation back in his ancestry, was a note. "Good work , K"
Upgrade all men at arms to cavalry
Morale is HIGH
Gain Steed "Brimhoof"
>>44580
1.Givad went to the hills and he found himself a nice Hills with a good overlook of the area. It also was attached to a series of small caves, good enough for his underlings.
2.Givad took to the skies, practicing his fighting and flying abilities. He made some good headway and got a stellar view. in the Distance he saw some of his kin flying about, and his superior senses made out the sounds of battle.
>>44585
1. You pick up some of the now ruined rubble of Steadhold. The Knight commander even pays you and yours a small stipend for cleaning the mess up!
+Roks lots
+50 gold
2. You find a bunch of trees. You got hardwood for days.
+Woods Lots n lots.
>>44586
1.You manage to make your way to the hills, but you and your forces have not found a good place to stay.
2.To fix that end you take tot he skies and try to cloak your presence. You gain a familiarity with the area, and could easily point out the duke's castle or the keeps of the major lords, as well as any of the major towns. You even find a Mining complex suited to your needs!
+Abandoned Mine (no veins discovered)
+Area knowledge
You also while scouting notice there is a lot of fighting going on, as the lords are already on notice and fighting. You've seen one band of undead already reduced to ash by a Paladin and decide to steer clear of his force lest the take issue with your presence. not far from that ended battle do you see a greenskin band led by an ogre set upon by archers, pikemen and spellcasters.
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51536b No.45319
>>44587
1.You find a nice abandoned graveyard for you and your companions to share.
+abandoned graveyard.
2. You scout around under the cover of the clouds, learning the lay of the land and seeing the lords are already mobilized.
+Area Knowledge
Sadly a Paladin and his clerics atomized a band of fellow undead and you cannot get near for fear of them destroying you alone. You see a greenskin bands fighting perilously close to the undead slayers now free army now.
>>44596
1. Your forces march into the hills and move on the attack instantly!
2. Only to find most of the easily picked off villages have been ransacked. You find some stragglers and supplies but the real kicker is you found a path to the underdark! Great no more sunlight for you!
+1 month of food
+10 slaves
+Underdark road
Qm note: Any time you do two rolls on the same action I take best of barring crits. however, if the action you took is far more than actually one aka do everything at once syndrome, I will simply break it into 2 and then parse it as best I can. You may lose out on things you want this way.
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51536b No.45320
>>44568
You charge into the hills with Reckless abandon, attack empty village after empty village. Most of the sparse spoils that could be gained you burn in frustration. NOTHING. Determined to get something out of your rapid assault you press on, straight into the hills, and a trap.
AS your forces enter are halfway through two particularly steep hills several rocks fly down the slops, cutting off retreat. before any of your forces can realize what is going on arrow fall down onto them like a dozen angry hornets, felling many. Pikemen form up directly in front of you and on your sides, with archer behind them. There are mages and clerics already casting spells or preparing too in the main group in front of you as well.
You can see what is obviously a human lord amongst the group in front of you. He has a bow that is massive for a human, more suited to an ogre than a man. Still he draws it with ease as he fits a black shaft onto it and looses it at you!
-45 Goblins
- 5 orcs
It's a fight! Roll 1 d100 for your goblins, 1 1d100 for your orcs and 2d100 for yourself (one to not die from arrow of ogre slaying and 1 for fighting in general.
List your strategy.
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51536b No.45321
Campaign notices
Roughly half of the new officers are attacking the Hills. (Cw, Random, DIngus, Shadowrise, Tansen and various npcs)
The remaining half is split between still preparing in Steadhold and skirmishing and raiding around Grentel.
The lords of the Hills are mobilizing and have many fresh forces.
The Clarentian scouts around Steadhold are destroyed, the enemy is effectively blind around your one stronghold for now, barring divination magics.
Several Warbands have already seen contact with the enemy and at least one is confirmed destroyed.
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b27d27 No.45322
| Rolled 47, 35, 73, 38 = 193 (4d100) |
>>45320
Name: Karadun Knightburner
Faction: Great Horde
Race: Ogre Magi
Class: Warrior/Sorcerer
History: Ogres are the biggest and dumbest of the orckin races, prone to being used as little more then cannon fodder by the smaller but smarter races, however one in every ten thousand is born a ogre magi, one blessed with magic. Karadun is one such ogre and has grown in rank within the Horde by a combination of martial prowess and raw magical power. His favored tactic is luring in the elite knights of enemy armies before igniting a large area with magic burning the knights in their armor and any of his army caught fighting them.
Forces: 255 goblins, 45 Orcs
Lieutenants: none
Abilities: Natural Magic, Great strength and endurance
Skills: Skilled Evocation, Skilled Macemanship
Reputation: Mutant Brute
Bonus: Knightslayer - Gain bonus enemies ranked knight or higher, however if one is on the field and is fighting you, you MUST fight them back to the best of your ability, expect your troops to suffer without a leader.
—–
Goblins: Fight and try not to die.
Orcs: Use goblins as shields, fight and try not to die.
Karadun: Call upon an inferno of fire swarming around the ogre bashing into the enemy army and attempting to carve his way towards the bowfucker.
Dice 1: not die
Dice 2: Fire and fight
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2e23d7 No.45323
| Rolled 17, 33 = 50 (2d100) |
Name: Reynauld - The Hammer of Grond, The Apostate
Faction: The Church
Race: Human
Class: Frontline General and Shock Troop
History: https://pastebin.com/8ALBfTBy
Inventory:
+ [Brimhoof] - "Shall we give them mercy my umber steed?" NEIGH
Forces: 150 Men on Horses, High Morale
Lieutenants: Durax, Wizard
Abilities: N/a
Skills: Skilled swordsmanship, Skilled tactics
Reputation: Someone to watch carefully, for many reasons
Bonus: Fuck you, I'll do it myself - You doubt in Grond and his church's teaching. This strains your relationship with much of the church in general, but improves it with those who too doubt it, for good or ill. Additionally, instead of rolling for divine intervention you roll for (un)Heroic second wind in case of an emergency.
1. With these new steeds we are even more mobile and able to strike then before, and therefore we must make use of these horses. We leave at first light and scout out the position of the enemy forces, they might be blind but there is no excuse for us to be.
2. As well we shall sabotage some of the passes around Steadhold so as to impair the enemies ability to reach us. This may be their land, but we can turn it against them. I'm sure that Durax would like an excuse to whip out his staff and make something explode.
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b67d1e No.45324
| Rolled 98, 84 = 182 (2d100) |
Name: Dr. Bartholomew Fenkelstein
Faction: Undead of the Archlich
Race: Formerly human, now undead/necropolitan
Class: Mad scientist/necromancer
History: Dr. Bartholomew Fenkelstein, more commonly known as just Dr. Fenkelstein, was once a respected wizard and scholar amongst the people of Clarent, devising many magical potions and spells and authoring many mystical tomes explaining the mysteries of the world. However, everything changed when the Empire attacked. He was killed in the initial raids and brought back to life by the powers of the Archlich. His mind was warped and twisted by the necromantic powers, leading him to become much more sadistic and deranged than he he ever could have been in life. Instead of making miracle cures, he now stitches together undead monstrosities using his necromantic powers and great intellect. Now he has joined the ranks of the Seventh Legion, eager to begin collecting "test subjects" to be slain and revived as horrific abominations to torment the lands of Clarent and gather ever more subjects so that Dr. Fenkelstein can create even more monstrosities to add to his horde.
Forces: 50 zombies, 10 Basic abominations
Lieutenants: none
Abilities: unnatural vigor, Natural weapons, night vision
Skills: Skilled biomancy, skilled necromancy
Reputation: Freaky mad scientist the boneheads like to attract
Bonus: Thinker, not a fighter: You are brilliant! this allows you to make and create new monsters more easily, at the expense of all that book learning making you kinda shit at fighting in general.
Other stuff: Cave, 3 corpses
1. Walk walk walk, that's all I do. I'm a genius and yet I have to babysit my creations all the time. Guess I'll be going back to Steadhold.
2. I need subjects! But not human ones, no. I'll find some animals from the woods surrounding here and get some of the zombies out and about to snatch 'em all up! I can do it on the way back to Steadhold too. What a diabolical idea!
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e55e52 No.45328
| Rolled 32, 26 = 58 (2d100) |
>>45321
Name: Vangelis the "firebrand"
Faction: Church of Grond (formerly drow)
Race: Human
Class: Spellblade (desires to become a blackguard)
History: Vangelis was a lowly slave soldier for the drow where he used his skill with both blade and evocation to destroy their foes. Unsurprisingly Vangelis did not find this arrangement satisfying and throughout the Clarent campaign used his secret talents in enchantment and his powerful personality to slowly subvert the slaves against their masters. During the mass route after the capital had revealed their trap, Vangelis used this opportunity to rally the rebellion leaders against the drow while they were vulnerable. During the ensuing conflict all the leaders were "tragically" killed in their fight for freedom with Vangelis appearing to be a hero to the former slaves. With no rivals to contest him for leadership he immediately took over the army and pledged his allegiance to the Church of Grond for protection against the drow and to gain legitimacy.
As a sign of his aspirations of becoming a true blackguard his closest ally, a cleric of Grond named Amatus who rallied to Vangelis after his declaration of faith, bequeathed unto him a consecrated set of armor and weaponry that shall grow in power as he gains more favor. Vangelis shall gain this favor by subjugating both the drow and the Clarent along with their slaves and hostages respectively. Under the guise of freedom Vangelis shall bind all to his will.
Forces:
200 freed slaves of variety of races
150 Clarentian Paupers
25 Trained Men at arms
Lieutenants: Mari'll, Elven Rogue
Abilities: Na
Skills: Basic swordsmanship, Basic Evocation, Basic tactics,
Reputation: Up and comer and Drow hater
Bonus: Firebrand- Something about your words runs deeply into the hearts of the downtrodden and oppressed, you gain minions and lower level followers more easily, at the expense of higher level ones typically not wanting to deal with your shit.
1. Each man at arms shall become a sergeant with 14 soldiers under their command and shall be responsible for their training and discipline. Training should now go more smoothly.
2. As captain it behooves me to get to know everyone to ensure their dedication and to see who might have talents that could be beneficial towards the cause. Unsurprisingly many of the paupers seemed to have resorted to thievery in order to survive. Mari'll shall give them more specialized training so we may have agents that could enlighten us towards future opportunities.
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8de1bb No.45330
| Rolled 22, 6 = 28 (2d100) |
>>45318
Name: Gal'golath
Faction: Scions of the Dragon Queen
Race: Young Green Dragon
Class: Dragon/Wizard
History: Gal'golath is a young green dragon, and the runt of the clutch to boot. Thankfully like many green dragons he had a sharp mind, and he used this to his advantage. He rapidly learned the ways of magic and strategy. Due to this he was given a chance to serve the queen in Clarent despite being young and untested.
Gal'golath is as greedy and prideful as his brethren, but he is much more of a show off. Where other dragons would hide their horde in swamps or caves filled with traps Gal'golath plans to take over a city and make it into his horde. He will make a gem of one of these cities and it will forever be his.
Forces: 300 Kobold zealots
Lieutenants: None
Abilities: Flight, Breath weapons, natural weapons, superior senses
Skills: Basic evocation, Skilled tactics
Reputation: Up and comer
Bonus: Ostentation of Opulence: You like gold and show it off, this boosts your chance to recruit minions and improves relations with others of your faction, but also increases the chance of someone nicking your stuff.
1. Minion! Secure that abandoned mine and set a defended warren with the other kobolds. I expect it to be ready by the time I get back.
2. Head to aid the ogre ally currently in combat. Cast Strength, Invisibility, and Protection From Normal Missiles on myself on the way. Circle around to the rear of the army to minimize the chance of any of them spotting me from luck. Strike the casters with an opening breath attack then proceed to strike in flyby claw, bite, and tail attacks on the survivors. Take extreme prejudice on the clerics so that Azaak may come in to aid.
+Basic Evocation
+Skilled Tactics
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51536b No.45331
| Rolled 86, 51, 26, 25, 47, 59 = 294 (6d100) |
>>45322
>>45330
Left Flank
Center Flank
Right Flank
Clerics
Mages
Lord x2
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51536b No.45332
| Rolled 91 (1d100) |
>>45331
Lord's Second roll
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51536b No.45334
| Rolled 65, 60, 12 = 137 (3d100) |
>>45332
??? Response
??? Response
??? Response
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d3e8c8 No.45337
| Rolled 66, 13 = 79 (2d100) |
>>45318
Name: "General" Ugluck-Rokk Smasha
Faction: Great Horde
Race: Mountain Ogre
Class: "General of da Arty'"
Forces: 150 Goblins
Elites 10 Ogres
Lieutenants: Stabsquee, Goblin engineer.
Abilities: Great strength and endurance.
Skills: Basic siege, Basic tactics, Basic Smushing things
Reputation: It can Think?!?!
Bonus: It can Think?!?! - Gain bonuses on coming up with and training your brethren on simple tactics. Complicated ones still hurt your brain.
+Roks lots
+50 gold
+Woods Lots n lots.
1. "Gold? Wot am I supposed to do wif this?"
I know, I'll 'ave my little'un engineer use it ta buy things 'e needs like little metal tools. We need to get ourselves a throwy arty piece after all.
2. 'ave the gobbins start building me a throwy piece! I wanna watch roks fly!
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bada9f No.45338
| Rolled 46, 12 = 58 (2d100) |
>>45330
>>44527 (You)
Forces: 200 Skeletons 100 Zombies
Lieutenants: Granth: Human Necromancer
Abilities: Superior senses, smoke form, Call creatures of the night, natural weapons, Flight, breath weapons
Skills: Basic tactics, Basic necromancy, basic combat
Reputation: That thrall of Tarkand's.
Bonus: Vampire dragon- You are a Dragon Vampire, this costs you a lot of face with your former racial associates, but makes you very impressive to your new allies of the dead.
+Area Knowledge
+abandoned graveyard.
1) Call creatures of the night to swarm and distract the enemy to give the ogre a chance. prio 1 is toSwarm the lords face and bow with rats and bats. attacking eyes, bowstring and carrying arrows away while prio two is to go after mages and priests with wolves and smaller ones and lastly the archers.
+Basic tactics, Call creatures of the night, Superior senses
2) Send undeads to the expected path any fleeing hillfolks will take. either for when they desert or when larger parts flee to hide in underbrush and under dirt to pop up in groups to kill anyone that flees by them and then hide again.
+Basic tactics, Superior senses, Basic necromancy
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6b195a No.45341
| Rolled 6, 4 = 10 (2d10) |
>>45319
Name: Dipirahc Kenath
Faction: Drow
Race: Drow
Class:? Primarily a bow sometimes a bastard sword
Forces: 100 Drow women at arms
Lieutenants: Syrena, Drow Spellblade, Morena, Drow Cleric
Abilities: Night visions, stealthy stride
Skills: Skilled Archery, basic tactics, basic Diplomacy, basic daggery
Reputation: I didn't even know they had male Drow nobles….
Bonus- I am a MAN! - As a man in Drow society your are much more likely to suffer attempts to usurp your command, but they also have the atrocious habit of underestimating you.
Stuff:
+1 month of food
+10 slaves
+Underdark road
1. Scout out the underdark road and all openings it moves to within a short period of time and look for a good cavern to setup base in.
2. Secure the area around the opening. Make sure its hidden and that any villages too close to it can be removed.
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6b195a No.45342
| Rolled 11, 41 = 52 (2d100) |
>>45341
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c0d2d9 No.45529
| Rolled 45, 49 = 94 (2d100) |
>>45318
Name: Brittany
Faction: Drow of Mandozelan
Race: Drow
Class: Questionmark?
History:
It's complicated.
Forces:
+ 150 Drow Women at Arms
Lieutenants: None
Abilities: Night Vision, Stealthy Step
Skills: Skilled Stealth, Basic Daggering, Basic Tactics
Reputation: Who?
Bonus: Listen, and learn- You're a nonentity among the drow making it hard for you to attract new troops, but you listen so very well, schemes and plots against you suffer for it greatly.
Other:
+ 2 Wagons of Food
+ 3 Slaves
1. Seek out a place void of sunlight.
2. Continue raiding the caravans. Prepare ambushes for any forces which might be sent to investigate the disappearance assuming that the caravans were expected to arrive.
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51536b No.46039
>>45323
1-2. Unfortunately you get stuck in parade duty to try and bolster the spirits of the seventh. Mostly you get insulted and vegetables thrown at you when you back is turned. Needless to say the men have no real time to try and sabotage the passes with the practice and event taking up all their time. At least no one tried to blow you up during the parade.
>>45324
1. You head back to the city, and low and behold you fine some nice rotten limbs hanging in the tress along your route. how thoughtful of the locals to butcher their own and save you the trouble!
+ 15 Butchered bodies
2.Youre abominations happens upon a warg den. You slaughter them all for use as your creations! Then you keep on going and find a medley of elk, deer and other horned creatures to use!
+5 Warg Corpses
+15 elk corpses
>>45328
1-2. Training was an absolute train wreck still and before you could go and fix it you men were voluntold to march in a parade. The practice eating up your time and doing fuck all for your people.
>>45337
1. You have Stabsquee buy some tools. They are not the best but still pretty good. You think he might have stolen a few of them instead of bought them though.
-50 gold
+ Average machining tools
2.Unfortunately the goblins are too busy playing around with them to do any work. Better them than your ogres though. Your ogres always end up breaking the tools.
>>45341
>>45342
Unfortunately there are a pair Illithids who set up shop further into the cave system. They ate one of your drow and are demanding more for tribute to pass through their home.
-1 woman at arms
2.You do a good job of hiding the outer care entrance though.
+Make Underdark road hidden
>>45529
1. You find a burnt out village you can idle in while the sun is out. not great in the way of defenses but it has a good look out at least.
+Burnt out village lair
2. You manage to snag another cart, but the man in it goes down fighting. The cart is filled a bunch of rusted sword and armor from the looks of it.
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51536b No.46042
>>45322
The blackshafted arrow hits you and you stumble to your knees, feeling vaguely ill before it passes and you stand back up with a furious roar of triumph and defiance.
You goblins and orc throw themselves desperately at the men while you roar and charge lighting yourself on fire. This promptly get you shot with several more massive arrows in short order. Still you lumber forward into the lines, and try to break through.
Your charge breaks the right flank of the line and your minions use that chink to try and flee while you continue to chase the lordling with the bow. At least you try. Suddenly a great pain floors you as you feel a shaft in the ruin of what one was your eye, the eye juice sizzling in your flaming cloak. You see a dragon under fire extreme spell and bow fire, the casters and lord attacking your would be rescuer once you fell. You are in no shape to keep fighting, do you try to flee or press the attack and hope for a miracle?
>>45330
1. The minions are too busy fighting about how to best do your command to get your command done.
2. You try to sneak up on the clerics and get exactly nowhere before the lord looks straight at you and hits you side with an arrow. It stings but really the worse part is that your invisibility fizzled and now all the casters are targeting you. Oh and the stupid ogre is on the ground looks like he's pretty badly hurt.
>>45338
1.The vermin make some minor distraction only to pushed away by a clerical spell. Worse your ally is now under heavy fire by the enemy, seems he was seen somehow.
2.Your troops march but there is a source of holy energy coming on their flank, possibly allies of the archer coming to reinforce. You will need to pull back quickly lest your forces get caught and pinned. The greenskins are starting to break out though, small mercies.
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16f7ae No.46046
| Rolled 32, 3, 38 = 73 (3d100) |
>>46042
Name: Karadun Knightburner
Faction: Great Horde
Race: Ogre Magi
Class: Warrior/Sorcerer
History: Ogres are the biggest and dumbest of the orckin races, prone to being used as little more then cannon fodder by the smaller but smarter races, however one in every ten thousand is born a ogre magi, one blessed with magic. Karadun is one such ogre and has grown in rank within the Horde by a combination of martial prowess and raw magical power. His favored tactic is luring in the elite knights of enemy armies before igniting a large area with magic burning the knights in their armor and any of his army caught fighting them.
Forces: 255 goblins, 45 Orcs
Lieutenants: none
Abilities: Natural Magic, Great strength and endurance
Skills: Skilled Evocation, Skilled Macemanship
Reputation: Mutant Brute
Bonus: Knightslayer - Gain bonus enemies ranked knight or higher, however if one is on the field and is fighting you, you MUST fight them back to the best of your ability, expect your troops to suffer without a leader.
—–
1-3.Yolo, burn the arrows outta my body and then burn the lordling.
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8de1bb No.46052
| Rolled 34, 3 = 37 (2d100) |
>>46042
Name: Gal'golath
Faction: Scions of the Dragon Queen
Race: Young Green Dragon
Class: Dragon/Wizard
History: Gal'golath is a young green dragon, and the runt of the clutch to boot. Thankfully like many green dragons he had a sharp mind, and he used this to his advantage. He rapidly learned the ways of magic and strategy. Due to this he was given a chance to serve the queen in Clarent despite being young and untested.
Gal'golath is as greedy and prideful as his brethren, but he is much more of a show off. Where other dragons would hide their horde in swamps or caves filled with traps Gal'golath plans to take over a city and make it into his horde. He will make a gem of one of these cities and it will forever be his.
Forces: 300 Kobold zealots
Lieutenants: None
Abilities: Flight, Breath weapons, natural weapons, superior senses
Skills: Basic evocation, Skilled tactics
Reputation: Up and comer
Bonus: Ostentation of Opulence: You like gold and show it off, this boosts your chance to recruit minions and improves relations with others of your faction, but also increases the chance of someone nicking your stuff.
1&2. With the greenskins having a way out my job here is mostly done. Now is the time for payback. Prepare to cast shield to deflect the next arrow from the lord and give a flyby breath attack on the casters before flying away.
+Basic Evocation
+Skilled Tactics
+Flight
+Breath weapons
+Natural weapons
+Superior senses
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44558b No.46057
| Rolled 50, 97 = 147 (2d100) |
>>46039
Name: Brittany
Faction: Drow of Mandozelan
Race: Drow
Class: Questionmark?
History:
It's complicated.
Forces:
+ 150 Drow Women at Arms
Lieutenants: None
Abilities: Night Vision, Stealthy Step
Skills: Skilled Stealth, Basic Daggering, Basic Tactics
Reputation: Who?
Bonus: Listen, and learn- You're a nonentity among the drow making it hard for you to attract new troops, but you listen so very well, schemes and plots against you suffer for it greatly.
Other:
+ 2 Wagons of Food
+ 3 Slaves
+ Burnt out village lair
1. Rummage through the rusted swords and armor in search for anything more interesting, surely no sane man would have died fighting for rusted weapons and armor.
2. Travel out further raiding roads in order not to endanger the village lair more than necessary. Attempt to rack up some more slaves and food before returning to Clarent.
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e55e52 No.46061
| Rolled 18, 64 = 82 (2d100) |
>>46039
>>46042
Name: Vangelis the "firebrand"
Faction: Church of Grond (formerly drow)
Race: Human
Class: Spellblade (desires to become a blackguard)
History: Vangelis was a lowly slave soldier for the drow where he used his skill with both blade and evocation to destroy their foes. Unsurprisingly Vangelis did not find this arrangement satisfying and throughout the Clarent campaign used his secret talents in enchantment and his powerful personality to slowly subvert the slaves against their masters. During the mass route after the capital had revealed their trap, Vangelis used this opportunity to rally the rebellion leaders against the drow while they were vulnerable. During the ensuing conflict all the leaders were "tragically" killed in their fight for freedom with Vangelis appearing to be a hero to the former slaves. With no rivals to contest him for leadership he immediately took over the army and pledged his allegiance to the Church of Grond for protection against the drow and to gain legitimacy.
As a sign of his aspirations of becoming a true blackguard his closest ally, a cleric of Grond named Amatus who rallied to Vangelis after his declaration of faith, bequeathed unto him a consecrated set of armor and weaponry that shall grow in power as he gains more favor. Vangelis shall gain this favor by subjugating both the drow and the Clarent along with their slaves and hostages respectively. Under the guise of freedom Vangelis shall bind all to his will.
Forces:
200 freed slaves of variety of races
150 Clarentian Paupers
25 Trained Men at arms
Lieutenants: Mari'll, Elven Rogue
Abilities: Na
Skills: Basic swordsmanship, Basic Evocation, Basic tactics,
Reputation: Up and comer and Drow hater
Bonus: Firebrand- Something about your words runs deeply into the hearts of the downtrodden and oppressed, you gain minions and lower level followers more easily, at the expense of higher level ones typically not wanting to deal with your shit.
1. Each man at arms shall become a sergeant with 14 soldiers under their command and shall be responsible for their training and discipline. Training should now go more smoothly.
Basic swordsmanship, Basic tactics, 25 Trained Men at arms
2. As captain it behooves me to get to know everyone to ensure their dedication and to see who might have talents that could be beneficial towards the cause. Unsurprisingly many of the paupers seemed to have resorted to thievery in order to survive. Mari'll shall give them more specialized training so we may have agents that could enlighten us towards future opportunities.
Basic swordsmanship, Basic tactics, 25 Trained Men at arms, Mari'll
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b67d1e No.46069
| Rolled 19, 3 = 22 (2d100) |
Name: Dr. Bartholomew Fenkelstein
Faction: Undead of the Archlich
Race: Formerly human, now undead/necropolitan
Class: Mad scientist/necromancer
History: Dr. Bartholomew Fenkelstein, more commonly known as just Dr. Fenkelstein, was once a respected wizard and scholar amongst the people of Clarent, devising many magical potions and spells and authoring many mystical tomes explaining the mysteries of the world. However, everything changed when the Empire attacked. He was killed in the initial raids and brought back to life by the powers of the Archlich. His mind was warped and twisted by the necromantic powers, leading him to become much more sadistic and deranged than he he ever could have been in life. Instead of making miracle cures, he now stitches together undead monstrosities using his necromantic powers and great intellect. Now he has joined the ranks of the Seventh Legion, eager to begin collecting "test subjects" to be slain and revived as horrific abominations to torment the lands of Clarent and gather ever more subjects so that Dr. Fenkelstein can create even more monstrosities to add to his horde.
Forces: 50 zombies, 10 Basic abominations
Lieutenants: none
Abilities: unnatural vigor, Natural weapons, night vision
Skills: Skilled biomancy, skilled necromancy
Reputation: Freaky mad scientist the boneheads like to attract
Bonus: Thinker, not a fighter: You are brilliant! this allows you to make and create new monsters more easily, at the expense of all that book learning making you kinda shit at fighting in general.
Other stuff: Cave, 18 corpses, 5 warg corpses, 15 elk corpses
1. Excellent, I now have plenty of fresh corpses to use in creating my new assistant. He shall be big, strong, and have a capacity for learning far above any ordinary zombie, almost as much as myself…
2. Then I will need a lab. A lab! What mad scientist doesn't have a lab!? I'll invest in some mobile lab equipment.
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51536b No.46077
| Rolled 98, 3, 33, 19, 93, 30, 100 = 376 (7d100) |
>>46052
>>46046
Left Flank
Center Flank
Right Flank
Clerics
Mages
Lord x2
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2e23d7 No.46084
| Rolled 68, 35 = 103 (2d100) |
Name: Reynauld - The Hammer of Grond, The Apostate
Faction: The Church
Race: Human
Class: Frontline General and Shock Troop
History: https://pastebin.com/8ALBfTBy
Inventory:
+ [Brimhoof] - "Shall we give them mercy my umber steed?" NEIGH
Forces: 150 Men on Horses, High Morale
Lieutenants: Durax, Wizard
Abilities: N/a
Skills: Skilled swordsmanship, Skilled tactics
Reputation: Someone to watch carefully, for many reasons
Bonus: Fuck you, I'll do it myself - You doubt in Grond and his church's teaching. This strains your relationship with much of the church in general, but improves it with those who too doubt it, for good or ill. Additionally, instead of rolling for divine intervention you roll for (un)Heroic second wind in case of an emergency.
1/2. All this parading was tiresome and quite boring, and the people here won't stand for show and pomp. They must be shown power, and this shall be demonstrated by Reynauld and his men, as they ride out to quickly crush and decimate any enemy force they happen to find in the field, tactical sense used to spar up against a evenly sized, moderately even;y equipped force, for Reynauld was no fool.
>>46061
Before leaving the city Reynald would stop by the camp of the other Gronnate in the city, and offer his welcome and invitation to train their men together, as well as cooperate in the future towards a common goal.
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d3e8c8 No.46085
| Rolled 7, 23 = 30 (2d100) |
Name: "General" Ugluck-Rokk Smasha
Faction: Great Horde
Race: Mountain Ogre
Class: "General of da Arty'"
Forces: 150 Goblins
Elites 10 Ogres
Lieutenants: Stabsquee, Goblin engineer.
Abilities: Great strength and endurance.
Skills: Basic siege, Basic tactics, Basic Smushing things
Reputation: It can Think?!?!
Bonus: It can Think?!?! - Gain bonuses on coming up with and training your brethren on simple tactics. Complicated ones still hurt your brain.
+Roks lots
+50 gold
+Woods Lots n lots.
+ Average machining tools
1. Good job Stabsquee, now make me some o' dose fine 'frowing machines me and me ogres can use. I want em big, and I want em mean and fast! Be sure ta paint em red too so deyz go fastah.
2. My boyz are dumb as da rocks dey be throwing. Da only cure is practice. Dey learn better by 'muscle mem'ry'. Get some o da boys ta start practisin throwin' da rocks at some targets. Dey need to be fast!
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e55e52 No.46093
>>46084
Vangelis readily accepts the offer of cooperation and makes mention of another in the city who may be willing to join us.
>>46069
Reaching the "laboratory" of the infamous Dr. Bartholomew Fenkelstein, Vangelis offers an opportunity to claim the bodies of the heathens so that they may repent the blasphemy they had in life. Such an opportunity would allow Dr. Fenkelstein to focus on his work while he lets the Grondites dictate tactics and have the fruit of his genius shown to all.
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1b8a2d No.46299
| Rolled 21, 54 = 75 (2d100) |
>>45341
Name: Dipirahc Kenath
Faction: Drow
Race: Drow
Class:? Primarily a bow sometimes a bastard sword
Forces: 99 Drow women at arms
Lieutenants: Syrena, Drow Spellblade, Morena, Drow Cleric
Abilities: Night visions, stealthy stride
Skills: Skilled Archery, basic tactics, basic Diplomacy, basic daggery
Reputation: I didn't even know they had male Drow nobles….
Bonus- I am a MAN! - As a man in Drow society your are much more likely to suffer attempts to usurp your command, but they also have the atrocious habit of underestimating you.
Stuff:
+1 month of food
+10 slaves
+Underdark road (hidden)
1. How about instead you illithids come work for me. And in doing so provide great service to the underdark and the Seventh. But of course more importantly a chance to earn great riches and slaves from the upper world.
2. If the two illithids join us then resume construction of a base here in the underdark. If not then beat them into submission.
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