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Friday Night Pathfinder: Goblins

So the party started into the Sword Mountains, leaving Waterdeep behind and following their "new" guide Marlowe and keeping a watchful eye on the map they picked up in the city.  Up into the mountains, Felix, the rogue, spots two goblins and says 'hi'.  They run off.  The group continues on, and with the cavalier out in front on his horse, the rogue is too late in spotting the trap.  A sonic trap goes off all around them.

Then goblins appear... lots of goblins.  72 goblins.  Goblins with crossbows.  Goblin shaman casters.  Goblin dog riders.  Goblin spearmen.  Goblin infantry with swords.  They were crawling out of holes in the ground.  They were appearing on the cliffs and rocks above.

(To simplify tracking of 72 goblins, I had them attack mostly in groups, and I gave them only 1 hp.  If you hit, you kill.  On the board, they were represented by goblin miniatures with a die next to them keeping track of the number left in each group.)



Oh let us count the ways of killing goblins:
  • Corrail used his bow and Arrow eruption to kill groups of 8 in two rounds.
  • Elliot, the cavalier, tramping goblin riders with his horse, and scaring them off a cliff.
  • Don the Magnificent tossing a bead off the necklace of fireballs into a group of them and dominating one of them into getting killed by another.
  • Yuri the winter wolf blasting goblins with his breath weapon.
  • Ally blasting the goblins with fireball and smacking them with a quarterstaff.
  • Felix shooting them with a longbow and stabbing them with blades.
  • Zirul stabbing them with his blade.
It was a massacre of the goblins.  They messed with the wrong party.

Afterwards the group explored nearby estates where Corrail was looking to deliver a message.  The first estate was found burnt to the ground and the occupants killed by some sort of medium creatures.

The second estate was damaged but secured by a woman, to whom Corrail was delivering a letter.  The magical, half-drow woman gave them a new chore -- to go to the Thornhold and drive out a bandit group that had taken it over.  Oh, and they have a Behir.  Oh, and also giants.  
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So for next time I need to have the keep and keep maps ready to go.
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