Ruins of Blood and Sand – Dragon Empire Prep Session 5
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Hey friends, it's your pal Mike Shea from Sly Flourish here with another episode of Sly Flourish's Lazy GM Prep. In this weekly show, I go through steps from Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master while preparing for my Sunday role-playing game. In this case, I am running a Midgard campaign using Tales of the Valiant set in the realm of the Dragon Empire called Scourge of the Dragon Empire. This show, like all of the work of Sly Flourish, is brought to you by the patrons of Sly Flourish. Patrons get access to all kinds of tips, tricks, tools, adventures, and other things to help you run your 5e games. You get access to the awesome Lazy GM community over on Discord, and you help me put on shows like this. To the patrons of Sly Flourish, thank you so much for your outstanding support.
so last week we had i i kind of opened up they were going to the to this the ruined city of kukatarma the characters had followed a caravan down to the south hijacked the caravan and established a new trade route a black market trade route for themselves to ride on top of the trade route of the dragon empire And that they kind of got that squared away and they let that go. They really don't like the NPC. It's funny. They just decided they hate him. But there's a particular NPC and I'm trying to make it more likable and they just don't like him. So I guess they accept the fact that they don't like this NPC. But I don't think I'm ever going to have him betray them. He probably will end up dead.
And he seems to be in a state where he's going to be in the most dangerous position. And he kind of told him that he's like, you know, I'm the one that's actually going into the dragon empire with illicit goods one way or the other. And I'm going to be the one that will be the first one killed. And, you know, you don't have to worry about being on the edge of all this stuff, but I'm going to be there. So they're kind of stuck with that. But then they said they picked up a quest to go to the ruined city of Kukatarma. And so they decided to go to Kukatarma. So they traveled to Kukatarma. They found an abandoned druid village where a cursed druid who had been poisoned by the strange poison of a particular...
tribe of gnolls known as the black venom the black venom gnolls had corrupted the whole place and he tried to save it but in doing so ended up corrupting it even more and had these corrupted trends which they bought corrupted awakened trees and holy cow those awakened trees hit like freight trains this is probably i don't know if it's my number one criticism of tales of the valiant so far but one of my big criticisms of tales of the valiant so far is that monsters of a certain challenge rating And I think it's basically like CR one to three hit really, really hard for their CR. And we're going to look at, I think they're down under, I think under animals, which is weird. Yeah. Awakened tree is under animals. That doesn't make a lot of sense. But the awakened tree is a CR two creature with 60 hit points. So that 30 hit points per CR and has one big hit.
That's plus six to hit for 22 damage, which means it's doing 11 damage per challenge rating at CR two, which is a lot. That's a lot of damage on top of being able to entangle and restrain with as a bonus action. There's a pretty easy fix for this, which is for CR 1-3 monsters in the Monster Vault, be prepared to bump them up one challenge rating. So if you're going to run an Awakened Tree, you can simply think of it like it's a CR 3, and now it makes a lot more sense. Now, because a CR 3 is 20 hit points per CR, that's not so bad, and a 22 damage attack at CR 3 is pretty reasonable. So if you treat them as though they're one challenge rating higher than the listed one, you probably don't want to do it across the board.
I don't know that this is true for every single monster in here. But I do notice that some of these monsters, particularly, like I think that when you hit CR4 level monsters, we should, let's go look at a CR4 monster while we're around here. So we have creatures by challenge rating. And we will look at a CR4 monster. Well, look at like a straightforward, like a, a chewel, right?
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