Skip Navigation Links
MenuExpand Menu
Rise of the Runelords
Skip Navigation LinksMenu>Adventures>Rise Of The Runelords>Chapter 1>NPCs

Chapter 1 NPC's and Opponents

Goblin Mooks: various goblin mooks for fun and slaying.

Goblin Warchanter: goblin bards, basically.

Goblin Commando: much more deadly than usual goblin champions. Not to be taken lightly, they are dangerous and can kill starting PC's.

Gresgurt: a goblin stranded in Sandpoint after the failed goblin raid, half mad with fear and hunger.

Aldern Foxglove

 Aldern Foxglove 

an aristocrat and dilettante merchant of mixed success. He secretly has a dark past and is a much more complex person than his chummy, foppish exterior suggests, but he is extremely adept at concealing dirty business and playing the role that people expect of him.

Tsuto Kajitsu

 Tsuto Kajitsu 

is an example of one of the oldest stories known to the world. Child of an extra-marital affair, spurned by his mother's cuckolded husband, unloved and abused. It was basically inevitable that he would one day grow up to fall madly in love with a fellow Sandpoint allumni, the fallen aasimar Nualia, who is apparently intent upon pimping herself to Lamashtu the Mother of Demons in return for her own inexplicable thirst for vengeance. The two star-crossed vengeance-fueled soul mates were fated to combine forces to make Sandpoint suffer and to act out their frustrations together. At least that's how Tsuto sees it.

 Koruvus 

a one-time goblin hero who haplessly stumbled across the Catacombs of Wrath and drank from waters polluted by the foulness of Lamashtu. Twisted into an abomination, sprouting an extra arm and undergoing internal alterations as well, Koruvus fell sway to Erylium and now serves her fanatically.

Zombie

Putrescent Ambulatory Corpse, Corporeal Undead, Feeling No Pain, BRAAAAINS!!!!

Good At: Being Scary And Gross (+2), Melee (+2), Resist Damage (+4)

Bad At: Resist Headshots And Burst Damage (-2), Being Quick Or Nimble (-2)

Hits: [1]  

Up to ten (10) zombies will fight as a mob; add one (1) hit boxes per zombie.

+1 attack for every three (3) zombies remaining in the mob.

 Erylium 

a not entirely sane devotee of Lamashtu who has tended the Catacombs of Wrath below Sandpoint for thousands of years. Dangerous, capable of casting Arcane spells, and able to turn invisible if necessary, Erylium poses a real threat to any foolhardy young adventurers daring her lair.

Sinspawn of Wrath

 Sinspawn of Wrath 

mindless aberrations conjured from nothing to embody the Thassilonian 'sin' of Wrath. Disturbing and grotesque, they hint at the madness that was ancient Thassilon.

 Gogmurt 

and Tangletooth are a suprisingly capable duo, particularly in their natural habitat of Thistletop. Despite his Goblin-ish low intellect, Gogmurt is extremely wise and has not been taken in by Nualia and her 'longshank' allies. He counseled against the assault on Sandpoint and knew without doubt that the tall folk reprisal would come swiftly. He can't be reasoned with necessarily, but he's not rabid or suicidal and has reason to want Nualia and her crew well rid of. He can provide quite a lot of privileged information about the Goblins and Chief Ripnugget, and the coming of Nualia, if a more diplomatic approach is taken.

Rigged Rope Bridge

Treacherous And Rickety, Rigged To Collapse Under Weight

Challenge: Collapses if more than 300 lbs is on the bridge. Difficulty to get across unobserved is Fantastic (+6)

Lesser Challenge: Difficulty to get across unobserved while Quickly Focused or Sneakily Primal is only Good (+3)

Warchief Ripnugget

 Warchief Ripnugget 

an imperious little lord of a tiny domain. Nevertheless he has a pet gecko mount, and is quite dangerous when fighting from the back of it.

 Bruthazmus 

a contemptible and vicious way-layer of travellers and a stalker of forest roads. Bruthazmus is currently Nualia's loyal enforcer.