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THREE PILLARS...................... 349 COMMON ELEMENTS .......... 349 ONE LIKELY PATH ................ 350 SETUP........................................ 350 THE GOBLIN FIGHT .............. 351 Customization ..............................351 Goblin Scum .................................352 Goblin Grunt ................................352 Goblin Shaman .............................352 Messenger Imp .............................353 Pathetic Goblin Zombie .............. 353 AT BOLTSTRIKE PILLAR ....... 353 First Impressions ......................... 353 NPCs at Boltstrike Pillar ............. 354 Discussions & Deceptions .......... 354 MISSION TO GREENSTAND 355 Approaching the Ruins .............. 355 Late to the Massacre ................... 355 Grim Wisdom .............................. 356 Notifications ................................ 356 DRAGON ATTACK ................. 356 Dragon vs. Pillar: A Narrative ... 357 Fighting the Dragon .................... 357 Crippled Blue Dragon................. 357 Fighting the Traitor ..................... 358 Lizardman Magician ................... 359 Lizardman Savage ....................... 359 The Traitor ................................... 359 Transformed Dragon-Thing ....... 359 AFTERMATH ........................... 360 © 2012 Fire Opal Media. All rights reserved. 6
INTRODUCTION STARTING 13 TH AGE We have targeted the game toward experienced Gamemasters and players who may or may not be experienced roleplayers. Use the chapter summary and quick glossary below as a guide to the rules. The roleplaying . . . 13 th Age is an OGL d20 game that’s built to help your campaign generate good stories. As a 13 th Age Gamemaster (GM), use the icons and other story features presented in these rules to help set up and drive the campaign. It used to be that if you wanted to play a game that intentionally engaged the players at the level of character and story, you had to play a non-d20 game. Other games had vampire clans or heroic cults to connect the characters to the campaign. Other games redefined dice rolling as not merely simulation but also as drama. Other games gave GMs the tools to customize their campaigns. They gave players creative flexibility and dramatic authority. With 13 th Age, you can play an OGL campaign that uses story-oriented tricks that other games have used for years. The rollplaying . . . Once your players take over driving the story by playing through their characters’ unique features, take advantage of the game’s relative ease of generating adventure content to give the player characters (PCs) the confrontations their stories demand. To customize new challenges, traps, and skill check obstacles, use Chapter 6: Running the Game and its guidelines for setting Difficulty Check (DC) targets at different levels as the PCs move between forgiving and unforgiving environments. 13th Age offers straightforward rules that make combat exciting and encounters balanced. The rules are designed to be a dramatic experience at the game table rather than an accurate simulation. Along these lines, a few character classes, including the fighter, bard, and wizard, aim to capture the feel of what everyone knows these classes should be capable of via new mechanics. If you’re new to d20, you might not notice anything that unusual about these characters. If you’re an old hand with d20, you’ll want to take a look at the fighter’s flexible maneuvers that let you roll to hit first and then choose and narrate your attack, the bard’s songs and ballads, and the wizard’s spell-improvisation abilities with the Cantrip Mastery and Vance’s Polysyllabic Verbalizations talents. ABOUT THAT ROLEPLAYING: WHAT ARE ICONS AND HOW CAN THEY BE USED? Lots of fantasy campaigns have High Druids. In 13th Age, she is an icon, one of the most powerful NPCs in the world. Chapter 1 introduces the thirteen icons of the game setting. Chapter 2 explains how player characters establish relationships with icons like the High Druid. In addition, we have described each icon in dramatic opposition to the other icons, such as the Emperor and the Lich King. The dramatic tension among these icons defines the campaign. The icons also define the written setting, but more importantly they help define events played out in your campaign. The world is in motion, driven by the icons. Icons work like the clans or factions in other roleplaying games. They give characters real grounding in the setting and help bring the setting to life. Gamemaster Use plots involving the icons or their agents to define specific story arcs within your campaign. Use your personal twists on the icons, or even your invention of a new icon, to make your game different from any other campaign. Players © 2012 Fire Opal Media. All rights reserved. 7
Page 1 and 2: 13 th Age A fantasy roleplaying gam
Page 3 and 4: 9 th Level Songs & Spells .........
Page 5: MINOTAUR ..........................
Page 9 and 10: 4E took the game forward in terms o
Page 11 and 12: feats: Characters gain one each lev
Page 13 and 14: power: Powers are things a characte
Page 15 and 16: Chapter 1: ICONS Most d20 games h
Page 17 and 18: ARCHMAGE The Archmage has preserve
Page 19 and 20: CRUSADER The Crusader is the armore
Page 21 and 22: The True Danger Everything will be
Page 23 and 24: ELF QUEEN The Elf Queen rules the C
Page 25 and 26: GREAT GOLD WYRM The Great Gold Wyrm
Page 27 and 28: LICH KING The Lich King is the lord
Page 29 and 30: PRIESTESS The Priestess hears all t
Page 31 and 32: THE THREE The Three were among the
Page 33 and 34: Chapter 2: Character Rules CHARACTE
Page 35 and 36: Players who roll their ability scor
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Page 39 and 40: Players Creating the Story The worl
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Page 43 and 44: Relationship Points At 1 st level,
Page 45 and 46: Conflicted Relationship with Villai
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Domain: Healing Talent A: Allies yo
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Defensive Fighting Maneuver C: Bonu
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against you with a melee attack. 2-
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Metallic Heritage Talent A: Gain re
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In 13th Age, we cut to the chase an
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General Goods Item Price Standard t
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Fine for impeding Imperial officia
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Chapter 3: Races Our art doesn’t
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Lethal (Racial Power) Once per batt
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What elves know: The perfect elven
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and that the earliest halflings liv
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aren’t just game mechanics and da
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over and over—when a spell starts
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BARBARIAN Striding out of the wilde
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Barbarian 1 st Level Stats Level mo
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Adventurer Feat: Add one recovery t
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BARD If the gods didn’t create th
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Bard Melee Weapons One-Handed Two-H
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Bard 1 st Level Stats Level modifie
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Throat-Destroying Tribute to the Or
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We expect you to name each of your
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Obviously you’ll be rephrasing it
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The Overworld Two-Step Close-quarte
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The gods may have walked the world
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Cleric 1 st Level Stats Level modif
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can let them use one of your recove
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Champion Feat: Your trick die can b
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Hit by 8+: Holy damage equal to hal
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Effect: Choose a defense: AC, PD, o
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FIGHTER The grit and guts it takes
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Fighter Level Progression Fighter w
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Fighter Class Features Fighters hav
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Deadly Assault Flexible melee or ra
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Spinning Charge Flexible melee atta
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your paladin isn’t wearing much a
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Paladin 1 st Level Stats Level modi
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means that you will not take the on
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RANGER Some rangers get their train
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10 mod) x 24 3 champion 3 epic abil
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Ranger Class Talents Choose three r
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Tracker You have the Tracker backgr
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Champion Feat: The ongoing damage i
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ROGUE Rogues are a mixed bag. Some
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Rogue Melee Weapons One-Handed Two-
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Rogue Class Features All rogues fig
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of onrushing orcs, or cutting open
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it, and then use a quick action to
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allies, but you see through it and
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Sorcerer Weapons Lacking any specia
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Sorcerer 1 st Level Stats Level mod
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Gather power: When a sorcerer gathe
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elationship points but you can’t
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Breath of the White Dragon Close-qu
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Target: You; breath weapon Effect:
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to make recharge rolls for your exp
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WIZARD Wizards are the masters of a
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Wizard Level Progression Wizard Lev
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Wizard Class Features Wizards have
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Unlike normal wizards, who use a st
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Free action to cast Trigger: You ca
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5 th level spell You can now target
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Players Yes, if someone is scrying
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9 th level spell 4d6 damage. Advent
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9 th level spell 10d10 damage. Cham
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Target: One nearby enemy Attack: In
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portion of damage increases based o
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stack with each other. The exceptio
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Actions On your turn, you can take
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standard action either to move, tak
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hasty and successful retreat, carry
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Most fighter attacks are flexible a
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Make death saves while down: At the
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COMBAT MODIFIERS In general, if you
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words, when you attack a creature g
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weapons. And magic daggers? They’
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aises his eyebrows archly while Wes
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Chapter 6: Running the Game This ch
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Icon Relations Story-Guide Results
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the character’s agenda but doesn
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might be delayed, and it might be n
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scythe traps were expected to kill
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counts as half a monster of the PC
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on a “per day” basis. If you’
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Transcendent Moments Moments that s
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GP Per Full Heal-Up 1 st Level PCs:
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mighty magic than it would first ap
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Visitors from Other Worlds It’s a
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Chapter 7: Monsters The monsters in
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Failure indicates that the creature
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Monster Roles Dividing monsters int
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Monster Equivalents Monster Level c
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dragon 5 sahuagin normal wrecker 5
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Limited use: 2/round, each requirin
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ANKHEG Ankhegs love to burrow into
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CHIMERA In illustrated bestiaries c
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Imp Imps are batwinged balls of cha
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penalty unless the creature hit the
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[Special trigger] Abyssal curse +15
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DERRO Derro are dwarves who have mi
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7: Now I’m mad!—The first time
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[Special trigger] Bite +9 vs. AC—
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[Special trigger] C: Poison breath
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C: Far slashing lightning breath +1
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GARGOYLE Gargoyles are either mons
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GIANT Giants are the original peopl
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Fire Giant Warlord You know what’
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GNOLL According to some, gnolls rul
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Icons PD 17 HP 55 MD 12 Bugbears co
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GOLEM Golems’ occasional spontane
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Poison gas: The first time the iron
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HARPY The harpies sing pieces and s
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HUMAN Humans are the nicest and bes
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HYDRA Hydras instinctively split th
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KOBOLD Kobolds are the shameful spa
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MEDUSA These snake-haired, reptilia
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MINOTAUR Minotaurs are unholy monst
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OOZE Evil masterminds, spellcasters
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ORC Not all orcs are born. Some spr
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OTYUGH When the trash-heap pushes o
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PHASE SPIDER Phase spiders reported
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RAKSHASA Rakshasas blend savagery a
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SKELETON The most dangerous skeleto
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TROGLODYTE The stories say that tro
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VAMPIRE There are basically two sor
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WRAITH Some wraiths recall their fo
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ZOMBIE Near the end of a past age,
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dragon and the ettin. Or use condit
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Baseline Stats for Normal Monsters
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Chapter 8: The Dragon Empire This c
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allowed powerful fiends to tear thr
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passageways that lead to the overwo
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compunction about eliminating some
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garrisoning his fortresses. The pre
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inhabitants have a soul of their ow
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towns often sprout up where newcome
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people (if any) who live on its bac
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have learned that the great island
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the Midland Sea, including the road
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going on, because pride couldn’t
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your potion will blow through your
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longer running the show; instead, t
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a way to help the beloved (or simpl
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Tome of the Divinities and their De
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Necklaces, Pendants Default bonus:
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Default bonus: Attack and damage wi
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items, lore bottles can often be fo
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Chapter 10: Blood & Lightning This
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icon may have loaned the PC an adve
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Shifty bugger: Goblins only need to
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place to hide and prepare for the a
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achieves monstrous levels of power,
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of PCs Magician Savage 3 1 2 1 4 1
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