Ironnipple
First Post
Hey guys, so I'm pretty new to d&d (about 6 months off and on). And my group alternates between 2 campaigns every week. This week, one of the Dm's can't do it and asked me to make up a campaign to start in on and maybe carry it out for a while.
So I'm brand new to being a Dm and I'm trying to formulate a good couple of possible encounters.
One idea I had is the big boss warlock guy (who is an actual built pc by me just in case the story flows that he joins their party as an NPC). So I made him an infernal warlock, and I got an idea of when (and if) they face off against him, he has a few prisoners in the room where they will fight, and basically have them beaten to 1 hp, and chained up, I just don't know yet if they will be hidden behind a wall from the PCs or out in the open.
So I figure it would make for an interesting twist on the encounter to have a guard by each prisoner, and if the warlock told the gaurd to, the guard would then kill the prisoner, and having been a "cursed enemy" by the warlock, he then regains some temporary hitpoints.
Now he's only going to have 4 prisoners, so it's not like he will have unlimited health possibilities. But I recently read about a bag of rats trick, that made me think this was not a good idea, so I came to ask what you guys think, is it too close to that cheap trick, or is it just a cool encounter twist?
Thanks in advance for the feedback.
So I'm brand new to being a Dm and I'm trying to formulate a good couple of possible encounters.
One idea I had is the big boss warlock guy (who is an actual built pc by me just in case the story flows that he joins their party as an NPC). So I made him an infernal warlock, and I got an idea of when (and if) they face off against him, he has a few prisoners in the room where they will fight, and basically have them beaten to 1 hp, and chained up, I just don't know yet if they will be hidden behind a wall from the PCs or out in the open.
So I figure it would make for an interesting twist on the encounter to have a guard by each prisoner, and if the warlock told the gaurd to, the guard would then kill the prisoner, and having been a "cursed enemy" by the warlock, he then regains some temporary hitpoints.
Now he's only going to have 4 prisoners, so it's not like he will have unlimited health possibilities. But I recently read about a bag of rats trick, that made me think this was not a good idea, so I came to ask what you guys think, is it too close to that cheap trick, or is it just a cool encounter twist?
Thanks in advance for the feedback.
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