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Ruins of Blood and Sand – Dragon Empire Prep Session 5
Fri, 13 Dec 2024
Mike prepares the next session of his Tales of the Valiant Dragon Empire campaign. Visit the Sly Flourish Blog Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Podcast Support Sly Flourish on Patreon Buy Sly Flourish Books: Midgard Worldbook Tales of the Valiant Obsidian for TTRPGs
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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.
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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.
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