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"Orcwort" and its "Wortlings" for a Campaign
« on: December 10, 2011, 10:39:27 PM »
Orcwort / Wortling - Monster Manual 2 pg. 165



Orcworts have a challenge rating of 20! I'm running a game for characters who are currently just 4th level, but it's a game where we all take turns DM'ing and they're en route to a town, but still a week away and headed through some thick forest. Good time to bring this baby out. I absolutely love the flavor of this creature, but I have no idea how to tone it down "correctly". Any thoughts?

I'm not sure if I can post the stats or not, but I'm pretty sure we could discuss stats that have been modified. Thanks in advance to anyone who helps me with this.
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Re: "Orcwort" and its "Wortlings" for a Campaign
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2011, 11:04:25 PM »
You you be satisfied with a yellow musk creeper (Fiend Folio)? 

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Re: "Orcwort" and its "Wortlings" for a Campaign
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2011, 11:09:05 PM »
And aren't the wortlings something like a CR 2?

I agree, the Yellow Musk Creeper is a much better monster to use for your level, and with the yellow musk zombie template, you can alter how hard the progeny are based upon what you use as the base creatures.

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Re: "Orcwort" and its "Wortlings" for a Campaign
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2011, 11:21:19 PM »
Can you set orcworts on fire?
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Re: "Orcwort" and its "Wortlings" for a Campaign
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2011, 07:29:23 AM »
Yellow musk creeper is a decent solution.

Alternatively, you can just make a normal tree that spawns humanoid-plants (creatures with either the wildling or the greenbound template depending on what CR you need). Those humanoid-plants then walk out and try to drag creatures back to the tree that created them so more humanoid-plants can be created and the tree can potentially pollenate one of them.
The tree could be completely unable to do combat, and only able to make those humanoid-plants at a rate of 1-2 per day.
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Re: "Orcwort" and its "Wortlings" for a Campaign
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2011, 06:43:59 PM »
Whoa! Thanks for the Musk Creeper suggestion. That thing is nasty!

The party minus me is a conjurer 4, tipper barbarian/totemist 4, really crappy archer 4.

Hopefully they can take the thing down!  :lol

New questions:

Is there any way for a level 4 cleric to send a message long distance? Like 5 miles or so?
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Re: "Orcwort" and its "Wortlings" for a Campaign
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2011, 08:45:31 AM »
Is there any way for a level 4 cleric to send a message long distance? Like 5 miles or so?

You can always hire a commoner to walk 5 miles.  Somehow, I don't think that's what you meant though.

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Re: "Orcwort" and its "Wortlings" for a Campaign
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2011, 08:58:17 AM »
A scroll of sending?

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Re: "Orcwort" and its "Wortlings" for a Campaign
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2011, 01:41:23 PM »
Whoa! Thanks for the Musk Creeper suggestion. That thing is nasty!

The party minus me is a conjurer 4, tipper barbarian/totemist 4, really crappy archer 4.

Hopefully they can take the thing down!  :lol

New questions:

Is there any way for a level 4 cleric to send a message long distance? Like 5 miles or so?
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Re: "Orcwort" and its "Wortlings" for a Campaign
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2011, 06:01:28 PM »
Is there any way for a level 4 cleric to send a message long distance? Like 5 miles or so?

Burning arrows fired far into the air on a cloudless night and an intricate system of messaging with them?

Smoke Signals?
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Re: "Orcwort" and its "Wortlings" for a Campaign
« Reply #10 on: December 14, 2011, 12:07:18 AM »
The hook to get them to go there will be that my character is in the conversion process. But before he got nabbed he sent out a message. Oh well, I'll just have to use NPCs to tell them.
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