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Hopefully a simple answer to a stupid question.
When a weapon has multiple damage dice, for example the Blunt sword (2d8). Do the player knights add the total together or count each dice separately for dealing out damage and gambits etc.
Using the above as an example if a player has a sword (2d8) and a shield (d4) and they roll; sword a 6 and 5, shield a 4. Does the sword deal 11 and the shield 4 or… are the 2 dice from the sword considered as separate so; 6, 5 and 4 to distribute?
Many thanks in advance to the community for your assistance.

Hello everyone,

I'm 6 sessions into running a new slow-burning Mythic Bastionland campaign for 4 players. So far the exploration and factional politics aspects of the game have been great, but last session the players finally got to the end of a myth for the first time.

They were tracking down The Forest (pg41) and fought the Fearmonger. To be honest, the fight was a joke, they killed it while only losing a point or two of guard. Every turn multiple players were denying its attacks and doing so much damage they killed it before fatigue mattered. The fight against the three guardians of the forest previously was much more intense as the players were split up. I could have been harsher with environmental effects not listed on the Fearmonger's stat sheet, but i was hesitant to do so before knowing how easy it would be.

I'm here to ask anyone who has solved this problem how they make singular big monsters more threatening in their games? (has anyone tried giving big monster attacks a close-range blast?)

Thanks in advance for any advice offered.

Venom a'crowning face a'gare

A stony hate, a fateful stare.

1. A young man serenades a statue in a clearing, mourning that his lover didn't meet him here as she promised.
2. A river whose waters are completely still. The whiskered hares around it do not run. A stone tortoise lies in the riverbed, with the ability to still forces of nature.
3. A statue of a behemoth surrounded by herbalists huts. The locals claim it wasn't here before, and must be a curse from the hag who passed through, soliciting her hand in marriage and inquiring after seers. Each hut has a treasured mirror heirloom (see table).
4. Heavy rain pelts everything exposed, turning 7 nearby stones into stone-jaw snakes, usually geovores, now with a taste for flesh.
5. The Gorgon emerges from bathing in a stagnant pool, demanding first that the knights marry her, and if refused, to tell her of the seers who knighted them, complaining even they refuse to look on her. She becomes furious if refused entirely.
6. Stumble on a wedding between the gorgon and a seer of the realm, whose sight is now restricted to the gorgon alone. Everyone attending is jumpy and fears angering the bride.

The Gorgon, Hypatia, hideous and vile

15 VIG 16 CLA 8 SPI 9GD A2 (stony skin, shield)

Tarnished shield (d4, d6 if polished), fanged bites (3d8, lose d6 CLA if wounded) or stony gaze (d10 CLA blast to ALL looking, shatters mirrors, turned to stone if CLA is reduced to 0. Avert eyes on move, running water and rain cures it, being left under a full moon will make it permanent) Seers loathe to look on her

Sparring Behemoth

16 VIG 4 CLA 10 SPI 4GD A1 (crowned head, see table)

Butting crown (2d10), frantic bucking (d8 blast) prefers single combat

Stone-jaw Snakes

3 VIG 3 CLA 5 SPI 2GD

Gaping bite (d6, wounds are dealt to clarity) turn back to stone after their venom is used

	The Behemoth's crown is	Heirloom
1	Horned	Jeweled handle
2	Toothy	Unbreakable silver sheet
3	Clawed	Full length
4	Bald to the skull	Set in a jewelry box
5	Winged	Set in a wardrobe
6	Maned and pinned with a spiny tiara	Double sided and ringed in gold

Let me know what you all think! it doesn't seem evocative without Sorenson's art :(