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Gah!  I had issues with my printer, Vista and Adobe last night so I spent 3 hours printing Power Cards for the pre-generated PCs!  I freaking hate that part of Convention Games prep, but it makes the game so much easier!

Last night I completed the play test draft for Scene 3 which is about:

Kobolds have to get into the city. Various ways are made available, including climbing the outside wall at night, Bluffing the City guards (Skill challenge: Disguise, Bluff, Diplomacy) and sneaking into the sewers

Here’s what I have:

Hope’s Point is a city that sits by a Cliff overlooking the Ocean.

It’s a walled community with a pair of competent looking Guards posted on each gate and periodic patrols on the walls, shouting ‘”All’s well” periodically.

A cursory scouting of the City reveals 2 ways to sneak in, both playable by skill challenges.

Convincing guards to let party enter any gate

Skill Challenge (8/3, DC 21)
Primary Skills: Bluff, Diplomacy, Insight

Prerequisite: PCs must hide their features to be allowed to initiate the Challenge

Success: PCs allowed in city

Failure: Rebuffed from gates and threatened with alerting the whole city.  If the city is alerted, stress how guards and adventurers are pouring out of the city to engage the PCs.

Personality traits: The guards are polite but of the dumb and stubborn type.  Meeting everything strange with the fake-idiot cunning of long time police constables.

Fluff Quotes:

• So you guys are those Cloistered Monks that made a Vow of Hiding you Faces huh?  My brother in law is from that Monastery too, you may know him, name’s Jim? Yeah? Fancy that! His name is Bob.
• Careful Jin, they might be monsters in disguise from them Caves!
• Shut up Mort, everyone knows monsters don’t ever leave that place.

Entering through the Sewer:

Visible from the Cliff (Easy DC) , a 4′ Pipe leading to the sewers can be accessed by climbing (Moderate DC). The Pipe leads to a large area inhabited under the city. Populated by a band of 5 Were-Rats , an Otyugh and an Ochre Jelly (+2 level).

They’ll be willing to let the PCs pass if they can be convinced….

Skill Challenge (4/3, DC 17)
Primary Skills: Bluff, Diplomacy, Insight, Dungeoneering, History

Failure without successes: PCs attacked.
Failure with one success: Entry refused
Failure with 2 successes: Rats let PCs pass but forget to mention Otyugh and Ochre Jelly
Failure with 3 successes: “You can pass, provided you manage to feed this Otyugh to it’s heart’s content”

Fluff Quote:

We’d love to help you, but we’re oh so hungry and everyone knows Kobolds taste like Chicken!

Battle Map: Sewer from Wizards of the Coast’s City of Peril Fantastic Location

Stat Adjustments:

Level 4 Ochre Jelly , 400 XP

HP: 122; Bloodied 61
AC:20, Fort 18, Ref 16, Will 16

Slam
+10 vs AC, 2d6+2 and ongoing 5 acid damage (save ends)

Tomorrow: Scene 4!