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Keep the fish crate from being stolen - AI-generated fantasy Encounter

Keep the fish crate from being stolen

Encounters
Protect · Low · 1 players, level 5

Keep the fish crate from being stolen

The fish crate feeds the dock workers through the next shift; the thieves are trying to sell it before the morning boats arrive.

Run the fight

Round
1
2 to 3 rounds
Creatures
2
Low

This round

Nothing planned.

Win The goblins flee or are stopped before they free the crate

Lose The goblins cut the rope and get away with the crate

Party 1 players, level 5

System D&D 2024

Cheat sheet

Protect

Keep the goblins from cutting loose the last fish crate and escaping with it.

Win

The goblins flee or are stopped before they free the crate.

Lose

The goblins cut the rope and get away with the crate, or the crate is destroyed.

If it goes badly: They flee through the crate lane, leaving the crate behind if either goblin is badly hurt.

Forces

  • 2 × Goblin fish thievesAC 15 · HP 7 · CR 1/4

Rounds

  • 2The pulley rope snaps; the fish crate drops into the east lane.

Read aloud

Say this

Two goblins yank at the pulley rope, trying to free a crate of fish from the loading platform. One spots you, barks a warning, and looses an arrow. The other ducks behind the crates with a knife ready.

Forces

1

  • Goblin fish thieves

    Skirmisher

    2 of them
    AC
    15
    HP each
    7
    CR
    1/4

    Nimble Escape · Scimitar · Shortbow

    Opens
    The goblin with the shortbow fires from behind the crates; the other uses Nimble Escape to close on the pulley rope.
    Targets
    The nearest creature threatening the pulley or blocking the goblins' escape.
    Flees
    Both flee if either is reduced to 2 HP or fewer; they abandon the crate.

What happens

2 to 3 rounds
  1. 2

    Round 2, at initiative count 10.

    The pulley rope snaps; the fish crate drops into the east lane. Creatures there make a Dexterity save or take bludgeoning damage and fall prone.

The battlefield

Zones

  1. 1

    Crate lane25 ft

    A narrow lane between stacked fish crates; half cover behind the stacks.

  2. 2

    Gutting trough25 ft

    Wet boards surround a shallow trough; the floor is difficult terrain.

  3. 3

    Loading platform25 ft

    A low platform with a hand-cranked pulley and a suspended fish crate.

What the party can use

Kick the drying rack over: it creates half cover and blocks the lane beneath it.
Cut the pulley rope: the hanging fish crate drops into the east lane; creatures there make a DC 12 Dexterity save or take 1d6 bludgeoning damage and fall prone.

Scaling

XP budget100 of 1,100 XP
Weaker

Low

One fewer Goblin fish thieves

Use one goblin; it flees as soon as it takes damage.
As written

Low

Stronger

Low

One more Goblin fish thieves

Add one goblin, arriving from the crate lane at the start of round 2.

Treasure

The goblins carry 8 gp and a silver fish hook worth 2 gp.

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