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Planning a GenCon one-shot using D&D Next. Help me polish things up a bit, please?
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<blockquote data-quote="Unwise" data-source="post: 6164178" data-attributes="member: 98008"><p>Cool ideas man, if I can throw some ideas around:</p><p></p><p>1 -<span style="color: #333333"> When the PCs go past the witches Scrying Pools (of blood?) the Amielle sees on the "TV" screen troops from Risur ready to launch a treacherous sneak attack on the leaders who are meeting to discuss peace. It is happening on live TV in front of her, how will she react? Was she a fool to trust them? Are the visions real or lying? For added drama, the King knows they are true, but his next-in-line is sure they are not and that the king would never stoop to that. Maybe they had nothing to do with it, but the king fears it may be true, his general hates the other nation with such a passion he may have 'showed initiative' in this regard.</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333">2 - Soon after, there is a communications room that the witches use to send messages to their followers. There are magic rituals all set up, ready to go. All you need to do is spill the blood of one of hte captives in this room into the scrying bowl and you can send a message. Will the paladin stoop to blood magic to warn her lords of the impending attack? Will the King of Risur call off the attack now he is sprung?</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333">3 - A fun and creepy idea for combat. Whenever a creature is bloodied, 1-2 rounds later, if that creature is still alive, their pool of blood on the ground erupts into a living manifestation of the witches. A blood-golem-witch appears from the pool and starts casting very nasty spells on people. This manifestation is quick enough to kill, but very damaging. This adds some interesting bits to the combat. When they PCs get bloodied, they better watch out because a witch will appear soon. When the enemies get bloodied, the PCs want to kill them ASAP or else there is about to be a nasty surprise appear. The cultists are also likely to bloody their own guys in order to summon a witch to help. So they might turn on the weakest guy, cut him open but keep him alive, then guard him from the PCs until the witch manifests.</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333">4 - Harkovers apprentice is actually one of the witches. She has been using his library to help perfect this ritual.</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333">5 - What Sir Tomas knows about the witches is that they can only be finally killed by the blood of a martyr. Only a martyr's blood can harm them once they are at 25% HP. He brought a bottle of it with him, a holy relic from a saint in his homeland. The problem is, he has lost it. (The archmage apprentice stole it) He is beyond ashamed to have lost it. If the apprentices treachery is found out, PCs have a chance to find it in the witches hideout. Otherwise, somebody needs to die a selfless death in order to provide the material to finish the witches.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Unwise, post: 6164178, member: 98008"] Cool ideas man, if I can throw some ideas around: 1 -[COLOR=#333333] When the PCs go past the witches Scrying Pools (of blood?) the Amielle sees on the "TV" screen troops from Risur ready to launch a treacherous sneak attack on the leaders who are meeting to discuss peace. It is happening on live TV in front of her, how will she react? Was she a fool to trust them? Are the visions real or lying? For added drama, the King knows they are true, but his next-in-line is sure they are not and that the king would never stoop to that. Maybe they had nothing to do with it, but the king fears it may be true, his general hates the other nation with such a passion he may have 'showed initiative' in this regard. 2 - Soon after, there is a communications room that the witches use to send messages to their followers. There are magic rituals all set up, ready to go. All you need to do is spill the blood of one of hte captives in this room into the scrying bowl and you can send a message. Will the paladin stoop to blood magic to warn her lords of the impending attack? Will the King of Risur call off the attack now he is sprung? 3 - A fun and creepy idea for combat. Whenever a creature is bloodied, 1-2 rounds later, if that creature is still alive, their pool of blood on the ground erupts into a living manifestation of the witches. A blood-golem-witch appears from the pool and starts casting very nasty spells on people. This manifestation is quick enough to kill, but very damaging. This adds some interesting bits to the combat. When they PCs get bloodied, they better watch out because a witch will appear soon. When the enemies get bloodied, the PCs want to kill them ASAP or else there is about to be a nasty surprise appear. The cultists are also likely to bloody their own guys in order to summon a witch to help. So they might turn on the weakest guy, cut him open but keep him alive, then guard him from the PCs until the witch manifests. 4 - Harkovers apprentice is actually one of the witches. She has been using his library to help perfect this ritual. 5 - What Sir Tomas knows about the witches is that they can only be finally killed by the blood of a martyr. Only a martyr's blood can harm them once they are at 25% HP. He brought a bottle of it with him, a holy relic from a saint in his homeland. The problem is, he has lost it. (The archmage apprentice stole it) He is beyond ashamed to have lost it. If the apprentices treachery is found out, PCs have a chance to find it in the witches hideout. Otherwise, somebody needs to die a selfless death in order to provide the material to finish the witches.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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