As the designer of the encounters for
4e WotBS - here's what you can expect from the 1st adventure.
Imagine a warehouse with boxes piled high that tip and fall if you climb them while an artillerist and a few soldiers harry you. Oh, yeah - and a lurker or two rounds out the crew as you navigate the maze of alleys and dead ends created by countless crates.
Fighting with brutes and skirmishers in a burning building while the ceiling and walls collapse around you.
Finding yourself against artillerists and brutes in a doormaker's shop where you can run in and out of a bunch of standing doors (closing and opening them to make your own maze).
A magical shop where every push, slide and missed attack may trigger a magical backlash.
A sophisticated bank that has more than just humanoid guards.
A magically-dampened encounter where wits may just be the way to survive.
A gauntlet with dropping boulders, twisty paths and ruthless highwaymen of varying types.
And more...
And wait till the second adventure...
Strange creatures that swap places with one of your allies just as he is struck (by a third party!) Yes - there is a 3-way battle.
Swarms of critters that attack while you are on a collapsing bridge.
Cute and lovable puppies that are just bursting with energy.
How about fighting on a battlefield where you can easily slip on the blood and gore of those who went before, or potentially (depending on how you do things) run a battle while deafened and with heavily obscuring mist. Can you hope to rely on your controllers and strikers in the party to help you out?
Can you outrun sheets of flame or clouds of flaming cinders that waft over a battlefield?
In both adventures, though, the combat is only the tip of the iceberg. Skill challenges abound as well, and mysteries of all kinds are mixed in with colorful and strange characters. What goes on behind the adventure is just as important as the encounters within. The
WotBS is really something special.
Boy, I wish I get paid for that Ad Copy!!!
Truthfully, I'm an old-style gamer (like from '76) who likes surprises and these encounters and the adventures themselves are full of them.
See this thread for some battlemap previews
http://www.enworld.org/forum/e-n-pub...ew-thread.html
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