Publisher's blurb: Been a while since I've posted anything. I've been working on a project with these micro-adventures. Creating a collection of the first batch (I think the first 20 I put out), doing some reworking of the maps to make them more uniform and edits. But enough of that. We're here because of "To Buy or To Bother". I wrote this one in the bookstore cafe (shocking I know). The title came from when I was imaging the nilbog's personality. He's become overconfident through the years because of his special effect. Which also makes it difficult to pull off at the table. Telling the players, that they are doing something else instead of what they intended. Trebor is an interesting character because of his power, but because he also has an obsession with 4s. Gives him a quirkiness beyond a nilbog's write up. If you want to read about nilbogs they can be found in the Fiend Folio pg. 67-68 or where I got my stats specifically, Tome of Horrors Complete pg. 399. This is an odd location. It would most likely be a found location. Unless the GM creates a reason as to why the party would encounter the nilbog, he continues his work. Here are two possible reasons. The goblins are have managed to create a small arsenal of quick, dirty magic items with only a charge or two, but it has increased their effectiveness a great deal. The goblin mages use quartz to channel the magic power. The quartz usually shatters upon use. The quartz they have been getting is from Trebor. The party finds a few goblins walking through the wilderness with sacks of quartz. The tracks can be traced back to the hill or it can be beaten or threatened out of the goblins. One of the gatherers has gone missing. In general a gather is someone who is hired on by herbalist or jewelers or whoever need a lot of a common material. Polly, a young gatherer, hasn't been seen in two days. She was hired on to find quartz by the local jeweler and Polly claimed to know where to get a lot quickly. The jeweler knows the general location she was in. The players find a backpack outside the hill, by the creek.