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-The hobgoblins get an automatic magic-bypassing ambush. -A hobgoblin tries to ambush Throg, but misses. -A hobgoblin ambushes Throg, but its axe bounces off his helmet without harming him. -A hobgoblin ambushes Throg, striking him in the head (16/19). -A hobgoblin ambushes Kelgar, striking him...

Hobgoblins are close relatives of the other green-skinned races, but are quite distinctive in appearance, being taller than goblins, yet not as burly as orcs. They are extremely cowardly and sneaky, much taken with ganging up on their victims in the dark. They are often found in the employ of...

"Me? No, I can't see in the dark. I don't even know for sure if I've been to this room before. All I can tell you is that there were more orcs and goblins when they brought us down here."

In the center of the room at the end of the corridor there is a round well in the floor with a chain dangling down into the darkness. In one corner is a sturdy iron grating, from which a hideous smell exudes. Opposite is a stone chest with wisps of green vapor curling from its lid. There are no...

Kelgar whispers: "I don't think taking them out of here right away is an option. Even if we could easily get past the collapsed ceiling, we'd still have to find a way to get back through the chaos gate. I don't detect any magic on these men. That's no sure indication that they have none, but...

"I don't—no, I don't know. I mean, this has to be Karak Azgal, right? But that's a big place. I assumed you would know better than us. Even if you don't know of a way out, we'd still ask that you let us come along. You have a lantern. We're tired and unarmed and I'm sure we'd all die in here...

"I'm really not sure. It seems like it's been forever. I guess it's really only been a few days at most."

The old man speaks up, "I'm Anton. That's Arcttus [he gestures toward the man you've been speaking to] and this is Avorus. We mostly deal in textiles and pelts. We don't have anything with us. They took everything before they brought us here, wherever here is. I can promise you that if you help...

"If you save us, we can pay you!"

"What? No, we just—that's all we've seen down here. They waylaid us on the road and brought us here. Please get us out."

But not for a while!

Dorgath opens the door, revealing a bent corridor. Three dirty, haggard men in rags are cowering in the corner. They appear to be unarmed. One of them is elderly and is leaning on another, a young man, for support. The third man moves in front of the others and speaks in a weak voice... "Well...

That's great. I've always felt that there was something special about the old cards, even when I was new to the game (late 1990's) I had a fondness for the older sets. There's also some pretty cool stuff that's been coming out more recently, and I'm sure he's seen some of that too. The game is...

Dorgath catches some sounds behind the door. It sounds like breathing and then someone distant saying something, followed by another voice closer to the door. Dorgath only catches the last few words... "...they're coming back!"

The cave-in has covered over a quarter of the room's surface area and left the rest of the floor covered in dust and scattered rocks. Still, Dorgath's search does turn up one item of interest: another one of those magic runes for attaching to a weapon. This one is highly stylized. Dorgath can't...

-Dorgath's Lifestone of Ashraz fully restores him. -Kelgar fails to bless anything. -Carrow holds the lantern out in front of his body like it's a shield. He gets +0 Toughness and monsters are at -0 to hit him. -A cave squig clamps its jaws onto Throg's head (13/19). -A cave squig tries to maul...

Before the squigs have a chance to charge him, Throg deftly moves behind Kelgar for cover while switching weapons and placing the lantern in the corner of the room. -The Power Phase is 2 for this turn. -Kelgar fails to bless anything. -Dorgath throws Flash Powder (1 bag remaining) to disorient...

Hard name to remember, right? She was an Italian neurologist and the longest-living Nobel prize winner (died yesterday at 102). She discovered nerve growth factor and epidermal growth factor. When she was hiding from Nazis, she cooked and ate leftovers from her experiments on chicken embryos in...

Happy new year. Well, not yet. Not for me, anyway. It's 2013 somewhere, though.

Part fungus and part flesh, cave squigs are almost all teeth, easily able to take a man's leg off with a single bite. The goblins that live in the caves and tunnels under the Worlds Edge Mountains hunt wild squigs. When trained (and even when they're not), the squigs are used as guard dogs or...