Nappendixia Campaign Session Report
Session #- 125 Session Date- 3/27/26
Time Passed- 5 days
Roll Call- Stigr- F7
Godhard- C10
2x P5 hench
Boyo- C8
Merv- M/U5
60 H Foot
80 L Foot
20 Cavalry
20 H XBow
Adventure Log- The party decides it is time to do something about the Brigands in the forests to the south. Their Leprechaun ally returns from trying to steal the brigand wizard’s spellbook- unsuccessful but he does give some good intel about the Brigand’s cave complex, and about their numbers and leadership. They bring what they think will be overwhelming numbers, and a detachment of their available PCs and position themselves near the brigands with the use of a hallucinatory terrain spell. They eventually reveal themselves, and the brigands retreat into the caves to mount a last defense. The party starts sending in waves of troops, 10 abreast into the wide caves, choosing their heavy foot to go in first. They cut through wave after wave of leather clad brigands, enduring charges and volleys of arrows. Eventually they fall, just before a large cavern where the next squad is charged by two squads of cavalry and the last squad of bowmen. They resist the charge and slay them in the countercharge. The bowmen surrender and the caves are cleared. Meanwhile, the leadership of the brigands comes out of a secret entrance and mounts a rear attack on the party of PCs while the brigand leader and the brigand wizard escape to fight another day. They use good spell deployment along with fighter’s might to take them down, eliminating the brigands from this land. They liberate them of a large amount of magic items and some treasure, but clearly the leader and wizard have made off with the best treasure. Still quite a haul, they head back to Fort Dawnbreak.
Session Notes- I had such a busy and long week at work and home that by the time Friday had arrived, I was so certain it had been two weeks I went ahead and posted a session announcement even though it’s really an off week from our schedule. 2 players showed up and we decided it was a good time to take on the brigands. I offered to do this on a different night where we could prep up a battle and run it as a minis battle, or we could abstract things a bit and try to grind it out tonight. They chose the second option and I rationalized that the troops they brought could be fed into the cave complex at a 10:1 scale and we would run the troop vs troop combat that way. We used the weapons vs AC table and it was meaningful in a few combinations. We also saw the impact of weapon speed in that we had many rounds of simultaneous initiative. It was a pretty cool and fast way to grind through what could have been a tedious combat. Plate and shield is awesome vs 0 level dudes. After that we ran a second combat of all the PCs vs the brigand leadership. We ran that combat theater of the mind, but as RAW as possible. I do find I hit a fatigue point after about 1 ½ hours of running straight combats RAW, but with more practice I’m getting better. The guys got a nice haul of magic items rolled from the table for leveled NPCs.
Treasure and XP- Monsters- 120 Brigands, Brigand Leaders- 3x F4, 2x F5, 2x F6, C6= 4017xp Treasure- 2000cp, 3000ep, 22 gem 10x 500gp, 12x 50gp, 780gp, 20x arrow +1, Sword +3 Frostbrand, Sword +1, 20x Bolts +2, Splint +4, Xbow of Speed, Ring +1, Hammer +2, Shield +1, Mace +1, Potion- polymorph self, extra heal, 7x prisoners, 40x camp followers, 10x s. bowmen= 18,690= 22,707xp/ 2 players= 11,354 per player. Must share xp evenly among PCs brought, tip out henchmen at least 15%. Add % bonus if appropriate.
Graveyard- 4 Med Cav, 5 Lt Cav- smashed by Hill Giants outside Fort Dawnbreak. Stigr (will be raised by Godhard) and more Med and Lt Cav- Blasted by Fireball from the Brigands M/U outside Fort Dawnbreak. (session 122)
Laurentis of Red Frontier- turned to stone by a Medusa in the Ghost Tower. (session 123) Recovered with a Flesh to Stone scroll.
20x H Foot- Killed clearing out the Brigands cave complex. These brave men defeated over 100 brigands. (session 125) (many will be raised by Godhard over the coming weeks)
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