Saturday 2nd September: monolith Conan and Temple of Elemental Evil.

Saturday 2nd September: monolith Conan and Temple of Elemental Evil. Leave a comment

An Evening of Dark Fortresses and Perilous Dungeons:

Mike, Phil, Alex, Darryl and Bruce.

First up was Conan. The Cursed Shape Shifting Sorcerer Scenario for 5. Phil as Overlord. This was a tricky one for the Heroes but the time pressure is on the Overlord which is a nice twist. 7 turns to break the Curse by sacrificing 3 pirates on 3 altars.

: The Fortress with the Undead minions of the evil Sorcerer in the centre.

: 3 of our Heroes; Conan (Mike), Savage Belit (Alex) and Amboola (Darryl). Bruce’s Prince plans to sneak up the rear wall.

: Darryl holds the centre, suffering wounds being hampered by the Mummies Curse (and rolling blanks).

: Cona aided by Savage belit attempts to save the first Pirate but the Mummy Guards against his blows and sacrifices the hapless victim.

: Meanwhile the Prince has been held up by hordes of Undead coming at him from both directions.

: The Camel (Sorcerer) flees the Prince in readiness for the arrival of the Second Pirate at the next Altar.

: It is the final seventh turn and the third and last pirate has been dragged to the third altar by the Camel. There is just enough gems for the Overlord to move one Mummy into position to attack the Pirate. With a blank rolled it is down to the last gem and the last possible re-roll to get at least one hit for the Mummy to slay the Pirate and break the Curse. Success for the Overlord. That was close!

Next up: The Temple of Elemental Evil. Everyone plays. An odd scenario as it turned out. Everyone took lots of hits at the beginning exhausting the Cleric’s Healing and themselves. In the middle, no Monsters at all but Bruce got his Ranger killed by failing to disarm a Trap. Then as the roof was about to fall in and knock out Phil and Mike plus Alex, Alex was able to deliver the killing blow on the Ettin for the heroes to win a partial Victory (one surge used). Also odd was that we only drew gold coins as the treasure cards ended up clustered at the bottom of the treasure deck just out of reach. Onwards as we get closer to the final showdown before the next expansion arrives hopefully!