Came across this little tidbit in The Castle Guide recently:
Quote:
after some initial success based on tactical brilliance, Furyondy's forces were beaten back by the sheer numbers of the gnoll army. The human forces fought courageously, but were finally overrun, and slaughtered almost to a man. Thus ended the Battle of High Horn."
-DMGR2 p109
Anyone used this before? Any suggestions for placement? Vesve, Gnarley, Yatils, High Vale? The gnolls could be connected to Iuz or the Horned Society, but I like the idea of troublesome, independent gnolls near Furyondy. Published in 1990, the equivalent GH year could be 580-581.
The quote is just made up for illustrative purposes, but Iuz does forcibly recruit gnolls from the Northern Vesve Forest. To wipe out a Furyondian force nearly to the man, the gnolls would have to trap them either against a river or lake, or surround them on an open plain or in badlands. The first three options seem the most likely. Looking at the map, the gnolls might have pinned the Furyondians against the west bank of the Whyestil after the Furyondians pushed a bit too far north (one downside of zeal). Then they were cut off and cut down. Something like this could be set up to happen at any time- before, during, or after the Greyhawk Wars. _________________ - Moderator/Admin (in some areas)/Member -
Came across this little tidbit in The Castle Guide recently:
Quote:
after some initial success based on tactical brilliance, Furyondy's forces were beaten back by the sheer numbers of the gnoll army. The human forces fought courageously, but were finally overrun, and slaughtered almost to a man. Thus ended the Battle of High Horn."
-DMGR2 p109
Anyone used this before? Any suggestions for placement? Vesve, Gnarley, Yatils, High Vale? The gnolls could be connected to Iuz or the Horned Society, but I like the idea of troublesome, independent gnolls near Furyondy. Published in 1990, the equivalent GH year could be 580-581.
-I don't have DMGR2 (one more thing to look for one of these days, I guess).
Does it give anything about the size of the "battle"? The Furyondians could have been fewer than 100 men who ran into gnoll army. By Furyondian standards, losing 100 men would be bad, but it might not hit the "history" books.
Any chance that the Furyondian commander was Sir Kuster of the Yellow Hair?
There are no details, as it is just literally an off-hand comment on how to explain what happens after having rolled dice to see what the outcome of a battle is. It is a DM rolls dice, finds out what happens in the battle, and tells the players "...and so the Furyondians were all killed by gnolls." type of thing. That is the kind of example it is. It is not an account of anything, just an example of what a DM could say regarding the outcome of a battle, like the DM rolls some dice and says "...and then Iuz drank the Belvor's blood from a cup made from Elminster's skull, as he sat sprawled atop the piled corpses of the Circle of Eight and their servants.", and that is it.
It is an "...and that's what happened." sort of example, nothing more. _________________ - Moderator/Admin (in some areas)/Member -
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