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by waysoftheearth » Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:58 am
waysoftheearth wrote:
For those that are interested in a bit of meta-gaming information...
Our bold company of adventurers have just had a run in with a modestly sized lair of 80 Orcs. The 80 were rolled up fair and square according to Monsters & Treasure with 3d10 x10... it could easily have been so many more!
Only 20 of them were initially encountered inside the mines, but seeing as 6 survived that encounter and passed word back to the lair, a further 50 (the bulk of their strength) sought the company by night... and it was well for the company that they did not have any additional Ogres or Trolls to use.
Considering the situation, the company was rather blase about how they set up their camp... perhaps thinking the Orcs would not come?
However, come they did, and they won a surprise round too, which very nearly dispatched Soval before it had even begun (that would have been very bad).
Most of the company was disadvantaged by not wearing their regular armour, and many of them (the Men) were also penalised for fighting in the dark.
The Orcs initially had the greater numbers, but I (perhaps too generously?) randomised how many of them could come to blows in the first few rounds.
From there it was a slug-fest, with each side trading blow for blow, until at last the Orcs were beaten off.
By the time it was over, 36 Orcs were slain and the remaining 14 routed.
On the players' side, 2 PCs, 11 NPCs and a dog, a mule and a horse were slain.
In all, it were a rather brutal affair ~!
[f=32]
Golgildir the Elf Medium (MV 12", AC 9, HD 1, hp 1/1, AL N) great cloak,
lantern; spells: color spray; scrolls: sleep, sleep, charm person
Hirelings: Georges;
torch[/f]