Exemplars of Evil

FEATURES OF THE AREA
The gatehouse shares some of the structural properties of Gilgirn
(page 118), but differs in the following features.
Doors: The double doors of the gatehouse are carved from
1-foot-thick stone. Each door is 10 feet wide and 15 feet high
and has hardness 8 and 180 hit points.
Rooms: The gatehouse contains two levels and a lookout.
Two fire giants stand outside the open stone doors, two more
are stationed on the second floor to operate the portcullises,
and two more stand atop the gatehouse. The ground level corridor
is 130 feet long and 20 feet wide.
Portcullis: When the encounter begins, both the front gate
portcullis and the back gate portcullis are raised. Each is made
of iron and is 25 feet wide, 25 feet high, and 6 inches thick,
with hardness 8 and 180 hit points. If either portcullis is
dropped, the PCs can raise it by making a successful DC 30
Strength check.
Traps: An area greater dispel magic glyph has been cast on the
area to the north that leads to the inner ward of Gilgirn. The
glyph can be found with a successful DC 31 Search check and
thwarted with a successful DC 31 Disable Device check.
Password: A daily password allows fire giants and invited
guests to pass through the gatehouse without being contested
by the guards.
ENCOUNTER 7-1
A fire giant who successfully grapples with a PC tries
to pin that character down and use an additional attack
to toss him. To do this, the giant must succeed on an
opposed grapple check to pick up the PC (each guard can
lift 3,680 pounds) and then make a Strength check. If the
result is at least 10, the fire giant tosses the character 5
feet over the nearest edge of the bridge into the waiting
lava below (to resolve the effects, see Lava Canals, above).
For every 5 points that the giant’s check result exceeds
10, he tosses the character another 5 feet, to a maximum
of 25 feet.
If the PCs enter the gatehouse, the two fire giants on the
second floor drop portcullises to block the entrance and the
exit, trying to trap the party inside. If successful, the giants
drop hot rocks on the PCs through murder holes in the floor
(attack +22, damage 2d6+10 plus 2d6 fire).
CONCLUSION
The fire giant guards fight to the death to protect Gilgirn
and their queen.
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