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Dear players,

Well, it is not every encounter that I hand over 25K+ in XP in one big lump!

[The fight]

The battle was epic, I chose not to pull any punches with my Ogrekins, then again, considering their D20 rolls they were already sufficiently emasculated as it was. The "brothers" reacted logically, eagerness to swat some human flies on their own at the start, then calling for reinforcements.
When the other three brothers came in, I thought the party was toast. All I needed was for one of them to get two rounds of successful hits on the split party (two members where three rounds away from the others at one time).

The trapped homestead was the surprise, it had to be, and my "secret" roll for Marcus' "spot trap all the time" ability was indeed a failure.

Good point about the choice of starting with the house and not the barn though... It makes for a livelier adventure.
I have obviously upgraded the encounter, changed the map, gave the farm an additional barn, kennel and more fields on the side.

The spread did not call for all the fields to be use as tactical terrain, but you used at least once, which was good enough to make the combat more memorable.

It is pretty obvious that the first encounter should have involved STEALTH, I had expected the party to spot the new member, make contact, recruit him and decide upon a sneaksie plan... well, since the Gnome decided to shout, Crawfood and Pumpkin had no real choice but start the two hours encounter (yep, that long, we started the farm proper around twenty past nine).

[Goodie-two-shoes... or not]
Hexagalamere, the "child killer" Paladin should bound pretty well with the party after all. They are known, especially Elswyn, for murdering a poor guy suffering from Ghoul fever, while said innocent was confined in a straightjacket. Add to that the gruesome murder of commoners strapped to crosses and made to look like scarecrows in cornfields (near Sandpoint), and Hexagalamere should feel at home with that bunch of murderous scumbags also known as "The Dirty Half-Dozen".

Hexagalamere killed "Lucky" and "Maulgro", the two sons of Mammy Graul, they were also the sons and brothers of the rest of the Grauls.
Lucky was the one who looked most human, he was despised by Mammy Graul, hence his soiled and hardly ever changed clothes.
Maulgro was loved by Mammy because of the stumps he had for legs. She enjoyed watching the wretched creature crawl and fall every time he tried to dance.

[Next week]
Onwards to talk to Mammy Graul!

[Update]
The event is up for next week.
I have updated the Rise of the Runelords game page.

Laurent,