Plynkes' Five Leagues Thread

[Plynkes]

Frater Sandro desperately rifled through his medicinal pouch. Was there any left of what he had in mind? Yes! He still had some Silvertree Leaf. Dried out and crumpled, but hopefully still efficacious. Sandro hastily applied it to the little mystic's wounds. All that they could do now was wait and pray.

(Silvertree Leaf is a herb that has near-miraculous properties. It allows you to reroll on the post-battle injury table but you must take the new result, luckily we had some. Thanks to this, Pottler was returned to us virtually unharmed. I just hope we have some left, better go gather some if not.)


After this little scare, the party rested at the county seat of Grimhold. Here they picked up a contract from the town council, to escort a VIP to traveller's encampment, the place on the heath where they hold their horse fayres. That sounded easy enough, right?




Meet Sir Percival, the town council's representative.  No doubt his errand had something to do with squeezing some tax out of the travellers.  He's the fellow we had to escort. Hopefully we would not meet any trouble on the road.


Some hope. We were attacked by goblins en route. Bloody typical, eh?




We were ambushed in camp. I'm thinking either our gang forgot to post a watch or somebody fell asleep on their turn, because the goblins managed to sneak right up on us.





Despite our gang being blind, drunk or stupid, it didn't really help the goblins at all. We made laughably short work of them. Not much else to say, really. It was a very easy fight, which made a nice change after the last one. Here's the highlight reel...












With the goblins seen off, the gang resumed their journey and delivered Sir Percival to his destination. A job well done. Nice.

Once at the encampment we decided to patrol the region to make things a little safer for our travelling friends. That would be a nice easy gig, surely.

[Dean]

Really?!  I don’t believe even Silverleaf can revive someone after you left them dead since the 23rd March!!

Seriously though, great write up and lovely looking game, glad you are still having fun mate.

[Plynkes]

It happened the same afternoon, it's just taken me until now to do the write-up. 


Haven't played our next game yet, hopefully it won't be too long before we do. Been painting a bit, doing monsters and unique characters, so the next post will probably be a rogue's gallery.

[Plynkes]

Unique Foes

When facing an enemy in Five Leagues, you have to roll to see who they are being led by. The table can lead to a variety of officer types (or alpha animals in the case of beasts, etc.), who are basically the normal foes but with their stat lines boosted. But sometimes you get a unique foe leading them, and you have to roll on the Unique Foes table to see what you're up against. We haven't had that happen yet, as the probability isn't that high, but I figured we ought to have some ready just in case. There are loads of them on the table, but here are my first five:







Grim Knight



A heavily-armoured champion of ruin.






Feral Mercenary



The beast-folk often hire out as mercenaries and sell-swords, earning coin for fighting.






Charismatic Leader, Enemy Marshall or Mighty Warrior



I think this one could easily fit into any of the above roles. The charismatic leader can summon reinforcements, the Enemy Marshall provides a combat bonus to nearby troops, and the Mighty Warrior is... um, a Mighty Warrior (hehe his red beard makes it look like he's poking his tongue out like some kind of Milo Cyrus. I may have to repaint it).






Ravening Beast-form



Some say that when a life-prolonging spell goes wrong, this is the outcome: A snarling horror driven mad by blood-lust and agony.






Infernal Spawn



The description of this one reads like something Lovecraftian or from Warhammer's Chaos faction, but seeing as my game-world is a half-assed mishmash of Late Antiquity and the Reformation, I decided to go with something more like a traditional Christian Devil. I mean, who doesn't want to see a big red demon with his red winkie out?







A Handful of Monsters

You can never have too many monsters for the party to hunt down. First a couple of different interpretations of what a Manticore looks like...






Finally a nice big Troll...



Another one of the monsters from the Blood Rage board game. They are so much fun to paint.

[Dean]

Great stuff there mate, looks like you've been having some fun with the lists too!

[Bloggard]

fantastic 

[Little Odo]

Already commented on the manticores on the other thread, but need to say the same for the "boss" figures. These are coming together very nicely.

[FramFramson]

That troll is the nut nut!

[Hammers]

That's the stuff! Excellent PJs Dylan!

[Plynkes]

Thanks, gang. 

[blacksoilbill]

Those are some great additions to your collection. Hopefully they do get to see some action on the table.