In one of my recent earthdawn games, the party descended into a corrupted kear to gain a powerful artifact. I did not want to throw out one of the standard creatures, so I started looking for something to design an encounter with. I recalled the following image from the new D&D 4ed adventure, The Kingdom of the Ghouls (iirc). Since the kaer was an old dwarven stronghold, this image fit perfectly for my more corrupted inhabitants.
Blight Dwarf
DEX: 6
STR: 9
TOU: 8
PER: 5
WIL: 8
CHA: 4
Initiative: 6
Physical Defense: 9
Spell Defense: 10
Social Defense: 14
Number of Actions: 2
Attack (2): 16
Damage: Claws 19
Physical Armor: 4 (skin)
Mystic Armor: 2
Death Rating: 54
Wound Threshold: 14
Unconsciousness Rating: 46
Recovery Tests: 6
Knockdown: 9
Combat Movement: 5
Description: Blight dwarfs were some of the first dwarfs to be corrupted in Kaer Korinth. Scythan Dwarfs are a proud and honorable people, but they are also known for there love of gold and gems. Yethshg’la exploited this weakness and turned the Korinthians against one another. Blight dwarfs are a mockery of their former lives, hating everything except gold and gems. A single gem, a reminder of their selfish curse, burns within their forehead. Blight dwarfs will fight until slain, but fleeing dwarfs have found that throwing gold and gems will cause them to pause long enough to pick up the treasure.
Legend Points: Journeyman
Equipment: None
Loot: Gem set in forehead worth D6 × 50 silver pieces (counts as treasure worth Legend Points).
Sweet! Nice write-up.
ReplyDeleteThanks Joshua. I was just looking at it and realized there were a huge number of grammatical mistakes (Gah). I think my pluggin for blogs fails at spell-check. I am going to try to post more from the game.
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