Ash Mountains Encounters
Good Encounters- 7-8
- Find a mountain path, reduce travel time by 1 day.
- Find a traveler who's cart has been wrecked or has been injured. In exchange for help, he allows them to pick something from his wares.
- The path taken has lead to a sheer cliff. You must back track, adding time to the journey, or you can attempt to climb it. Skill challenge, gaining half a day of travel time on success.
- Find an old mine shaft with a dwarven prospector who is rambling about a tunnel full of gold that he found when lost, but now cant find it again. Skill challenge to navigate the tunnels and find the treasure, possibly have underdark enemies?
- Find a natural rock bride, or a rope bridge. It's totally fine, but present it as ricity and see what they do.
- Encounter a group of stone giants
- Griffin- CR 2, hunts in small packs for herd animals and horses, prefers to ignore people unless attacked, lives on the sides of cliffs, can be trained as mounts. MM pg 174.
- Amethyst Dragon- CR 9, 16, 23. Live in mountain lakes and caves, lair usually has submerged entrances. Seek out knowledge of other planes, and magical items to do with the other planes. FTD pg 162.Emerald Dragon- CR 2, 8, 14, 21. Wield psionic powers, illusion magics, very curious and love gathering information and knowledge. Like warm lava tubes and caverns deep below ground. Dislike fire giants who often compete for living space. FTD pg 196.
- Emerald Dragon- CR 2, 8, 14, 21. Wield psionic powers, illusion magics, very curious and love gathering information and knowledge. Like warm lava tubes and caverns deep below ground. Dislike fire giants who often compete for living space. FTD pg 196.
- Rockslide skill challenge, possibly knocked off the side of the mountain?
- Peryton- Cr 2, flying evil creature of insatiable hunger, eats human hearts, its shadow and voice is that of a human. Live high in mountains or above ravines preying on travelers or nearby villages. MM pg 251.
- Roc- Cr 11, challenged dragons for control of the skies for the giants but now roam free, ignoring towns or forests where prey can hide, fly far and roam alone. MM pg 260.
- Red Dragon- CR 10, 17, 24, arrogant angry and vengeful, forces others into servitude by either dominating them or killing their leaders, obsessed with treasure and gold, has the greatest hoards of all dragons.
- Purple Worm- CR 15, burrows through the earth eating dirt and stone, does not digest precious metals or gems, will come up to the surface to eat cattle and other things. MM pg 255.
