Gog The Ogre
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Just as there is no daytime result to roll for ghouls on the Wilderness Encounters table in Chapter 3: The Spider’s Web, there’s also no nighttime result to roll for the ogre. It would appear that ogres are afraid of the dark or, at a minimum, have enough sense to realize they’re at a disadvantage…
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Out of the eight monsters listed on the Wilderness Encounters table (Chapter 3: The Spider’s Web), the ogre is one of my favorites. There’s already an ogre by the name of Gog in Lost Mine of Phandelver. Gog aligns himself with Brughor Axe Biter and his company of orcs at Wyvern Tor. However, if the…
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I thought I’d follow up with another trinket tied to Gnomengarde, since I was just talking about the place yesterday: A sheet of parchment upon which is drawn a mechanical contraption. Like yesterday, this trinket can help nudge players toward the Gnomengarde adventure hook, and can even serve as a bridge between Dragon of Icespire…
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Fifth Edition Dungeons & Dragons has mechanics for improvised weapons, but none for improvised armor. I can have Gog the Ogre beat a first-level character nearly to death with a fish he pulls from a stream dealing 1d4+4 bludgeoning damage with each blow. But if I want to give him a makeshift form of scale…