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Skull-strewn Lair & Background Tables

May 2023·pp. 116–119

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The Claws’ cavern encampment improves heroic renown and provides hunts for lesser treasures. Trophies, vines, fangs and skull bolas support melee, movement and punishment of disengaging enemies. Shortened names, origins and leader traits define increasingly bestial identities, from former Sigmarites awakened by daemonic howls to hunters of sorcerers; photographs then contrast the pack with its Askurgan opponents.

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