The Bugbear is an interesting case. While it's fluff suggests boogeyman-like roots, and an almost horror-esque vibe, what the stats and artwork give us is a fairly standard goblinoid with some decent stealth options.
While I urge you to go for the former, I will try to present options for both paths you can take in the following encounters.
While they are shunned in most of the civilized world, in the northern county of Vladimirsk, bugbears are revered as great bounty hunters. Of those, the most infamous is Plotsk Paleblood, an old and respected, if a bit sadistic hunter.
A rumor says that Plotsk is impossible to find, and that he will only appear to those who use a ritual to summon him, and even then only if he deems the quarry worth it.
While they are passing through the region, on their way to the Crown Of The World, the members of the Royal Northern Expedition make an encampment at the foothills of mount Exoda. As night falls, a pale, bestial bugbear appears in the command tent, demanding to know who summoned him. When everyone pleads ignorance, he threatens to kill every last person in the room one by one until someone speaks.
Grand Inquisitor Thalmir is on the hunt for an escaped goblin, but soon enough, he realizes he is also being hunted. When Bruhk, the goblin merchant, sold The Church Of Commerce's secrets, he threatened the clergy not to go after him. Taking it as empty threats, the church sent Thalmir, who now finds himself on the verge of success, but trailed by two bugbears, who he only occasionally spots in the distance, laughing maniacally as they close in.
Ever since her childhood, princess Iulia has talked about her imaginary friend, a being she met while it lived under her bed. The old king quickly dismissed such tales as childish foolery. At the eve of her sixteenth birthday, when the king told Iulia he will be bringing her suitors to ask for her hand, the princess pleaded him not to do so, because "crackface will get angry".
True enough, the morning after the princes and dukes arrived, they were each found in their room, with their throats neatly slit and no clue as to who could have done it.
While I urge you to go for the former, I will try to present options for both paths you can take in the following encounters.
While they are shunned in most of the civilized world, in the northern county of Vladimirsk, bugbears are revered as great bounty hunters. Of those, the most infamous is Plotsk Paleblood, an old and respected, if a bit sadistic hunter.
A rumor says that Plotsk is impossible to find, and that he will only appear to those who use a ritual to summon him, and even then only if he deems the quarry worth it.
While they are passing through the region, on their way to the Crown Of The World, the members of the Royal Northern Expedition make an encampment at the foothills of mount Exoda. As night falls, a pale, bestial bugbear appears in the command tent, demanding to know who summoned him. When everyone pleads ignorance, he threatens to kill every last person in the room one by one until someone speaks.
Grand Inquisitor Thalmir is on the hunt for an escaped goblin, but soon enough, he realizes he is also being hunted. When Bruhk, the goblin merchant, sold The Church Of Commerce's secrets, he threatened the clergy not to go after him. Taking it as empty threats, the church sent Thalmir, who now finds himself on the verge of success, but trailed by two bugbears, who he only occasionally spots in the distance, laughing maniacally as they close in.
Ever since her childhood, princess Iulia has talked about her imaginary friend, a being she met while it lived under her bed. The old king quickly dismissed such tales as childish foolery. At the eve of her sixteenth birthday, when the king told Iulia he will be bringing her suitors to ask for her hand, the princess pleaded him not to do so, because "crackface will get angry".
True enough, the morning after the princes and dukes arrived, they were each found in their room, with their throats neatly slit and no clue as to who could have done it.
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