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Encounter table

Bhakashal wilderness encounters are differentiated by terrain type, the mix of humanoids, animals, monstrous plants and monsters varies.

Mount table

Mounts are a central part of the Bhakashal experience, in a searing hot tropical setting, moving around on foot is a challenge. Bhakashal has urban and wilderness pursuit rules and a range of different mounts.

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Bhakashal ghost

Bhakashal has a number of ghosts/spirits that haunt various wards. Every ghost has “trigger conditions”, and if a regular encounter is indicated and those conditions prevail, the ghost will appear.

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Tim Truman Grimjack

Next session the bandits and the rest of the party will join in, and it will be a barn burner for sure, todays session was just a reminder that any time you engage in close combat with a group of armed warriors death is at your back.

Plan accordingly.

Going in without you fellow PCs is also a foolhardy move. He will likely survive the combat as he chose to flee, but that only worked out as the initiative roll was kind. Another round and it could have been the end.

Combat should always hold the possibility of death, even for high level PCs

Bhakashal's combat system reduces overall HP, and in a situation where you are outnumbered, it is possible for a high level PC (the Spartan is 9th level) to be at risk, depending on rolls and strategy.

Taking on a group of 14 with a spell caster should give anyone pause.

He took out two soldiers handily, but there were more on the barge to take their place, and the spell caster managed to get a Magic Missile off (it never misses so is handy in friendly fire situations), suddenly he realized he was in jeopardy, and he bailed, diving back into the water.

He had to haul himself up on to the barge and take out his weapon (why he didn't opt for open hand combat is beyond me, he's a spartan!) which made him slower. The lower level soldiers needed high rolls to hit, and only two were successful. The leader had good bonuses, and hit as well.

He didn't get surprise though.

When he dragged himself up on to the barge he was right beside their leader, and surrounded by 3 other soldiers.

What he had forgotten was that having 4 separate opponents meant 4 attacks per round against him, one from behind with a bonus.

He also lost initiative

... out to one of the barges. He planned on surprising the patrol troops on the barge and teaching them a lesson. There are 14 combatants on a patrol barge:
Leader
Spellcaster
(4) Mid-level soldiers
(8) Low-level soldiers

It was night, and he managed to swim out undetected and get on to the barge

They could have dispatched underlings to do this, but they wanted to flex a bit. They met the bandits and offered to deal with the patrol barges from House Tairn when the next target ship sailed down the Sklar river from the coast.

The bandits waited in a cove while the party Spartan (monk) swam...

Sailing ship

My Thursday group got a bit of a wakeup call. They are now running the Bhakashal Thieves Guild. The guild had been bankrolling bandits that were attacking ships coming into the city. Patrols from House Tairn were interfering. They decided to go out and give the House Tairn patrols a bloody nose.

Strange Adventures cover

Mike Kaluta Strange Adventures cover.

This is my favorite Kaluta piece

If I had the dosh for original art, I’d try to buy this

The Dungeons of Death by Justin Gerard

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Carlos Pacheco Fantastic Four cover

That’s the stuff

The Coming of the Terrans

The Coming of the Terrans

Go hit up a used bookstore and find this gem, you’ll thank me later.

Brackett was top shelf pulp.

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Ballard

JG Ballard writes terrific, atmospheric short stories, six pages packs more of a punch than many books I’ve read.

Book cover for THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES by Ray Bradbury, published by Bantam Spectra

Cover illustration for THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES by Ray Bradbury (Bantam Spectra) 4/4

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The Voruun are very powerful enemies, and the party has no idea what to expect, when they meet their first patrol I suspect that things are going to get real pretty fast.

I’ve been wanting to run these modules for decades.

Bring it on!

They will have to follow the trail and discover the city of the Voruun at the end of it, and decide how they want to handle things, given that this was the first of many potential incursions, and the first threat to their newfound authority in the underworld

In exchange for giving her preferred access to their circle and their city, Zvalas agreed to protect the circle in the underworld while they were gone. She will show them the body of a dead Voruun warrior and point them in the direction of the warriors who fled

The voruun party sent in slayed many of the chitin (insect folk) guards that protected the circle, but the purple worm guardians managed to defeat them. The party will arrive at their circle and be summoned by the high priestess Zvalas

The set up was easy, a Voruun raiding party made it from their remote part of the underworld to the caves where the party set up their teleportation circle. They were sent to destroy it, as it would allow incursions from the surface world