On top of the material wealth, you also may have overheard the kobold talking about one of the trolls’ leaders, named Hargulka. In addition, you can find some food in a sack to the west of where your enemies were, and under some rocks to the southeast is a Torag’s Pendant.

Should you emerge victorious, loot the trolls for random treasure, and search the Kobold Flame Shaman for a Cloak of Resistance +2 and a Wand of Bless. As for the trolls, concentrate your fire on one of them at a time and finish them off with acid. At this point in the game, one Magic Missile of your own might be enough to take it out, or get awfully close.

Kill the Kobold first if it’s any condition to fight, as you don’t need it pelting you with Magic Missile spells. Worse case scenario, you charge in blindly and end up fighting another Troll, which will appear behind you. The base encounter includes a Kobold Flame Shaman and three Branded Trolls, but depending on your actions you could end up removing one or three Branded Trolls from the battle, or incapacitating the Kobold Flame Shaman. Make what choices you will, after which a fight will ensue. Not only is it directly sub-optimal, but it’ll result in you being ambushed by another troll! In any case, there’s no reason to go into this fight without attempting to skew the odds in your favor, so ignore the option We daringly charged into battle. Alternatively, if you interpreted what you saw, you’ll be able to follow up with a check or a check, the former of which will remove one of the trolls from the fight, while the latter will daze the kobold.

If the Charisma check works, you’ll scare off all three Trolls and begin the fight with an abandoned Kobold Flame Shaman, which is very bad odds for the kobold.

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