Scrooge

Scrooge
Race	Scrooge
Hostile	Yes
Affiliations	None
Abilities	Steal Ray of Frost
Capable of Speech	Scrooge Language
Weakness	Unknown
First Appearance	Kobold Headhunters

Scrooges are large, duck-like creatures that are well known for their tendency to steal and use treasures and items, and first appeared in the Kobold Headhunters campaign.

Characteristics

Scrooges are similar to ducks in their appearance, although are much larger, being up to 4 feet tall, and tend to live near bodies of water. They are quite territorial, attacking those who come to close, and seem to have a fondness of treasure, often stealing the treasures of unwary adventurers.

They dress similarly to bandits or gangsters, wearing bandanas on their heads and chains around their necks.

Abilities

Steal

Scrooges have the ability to attempt to steal the items and treasure of adjacent enemies, and can wield multiple treasures at the same time, meaning they can use each of their stolen items once a turn.

Magic Breath

Scrooges can shoot out a Ray of Frost from their mouths as an Anytime Action.

History

Kobold Headhunters

A flock of six Scrooges were encountered by the party in their search for the Stone Tail. Noxel rampaged through them, killing five in a matter of seconds. However, the sixth was able to steal one of his swords, as well as call for another flock of six to aid it. Despite the Scrooges' attempts to steal their treasures as well as using their Magic Breath, Noxel and Kopie Ren were able to defeat the Scrooges with little effort, but the battle did result in Noxel's Squire dying in a friendly-fire incident.

Notable Examples

• A total of 12 Scrooges were fought by the Kobold Headhunters.

Trivia

• Scrooges speak a different duck-like language.
• The Scrooges' Magic Breath ability was activated by a Supporter Event.
  • The spell that the Scrooges would have access to was drawn from a deck of random spells, but ended up being Ray of Frost.
• There was another Supporter Event that would have caused all of the unconscious Scrooges to lay an egg, that would hatch into another Scrooge, as well as reviving dead Scrooges, but this was not activated.
  • Rob had the option to activate this event using the overflow money, but decided that it would be better to save it for the Supporter Events in the final fight.
• The party in Kobold Headhunters were only supposed to fight 6 Scrooges, but as Roamin's character Noxel managed to kill 5 of them in his first turn, Rob summoned an extra 6 to make the encounter longer and more difficult.