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    Need seasonal effects for a special encounter

    An additional thought: Have a penultimate encounter, with guards or enslaved beasts, range across four caverns/rooms/areas, each of which is constantly subjected to one of the above seasonal effects. So enemy archers are hanging out at the edge of the Spring Rains, allowing them to benefit from...
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    Need seasonal effects for a special encounter

    Spring - Driving rains make all squares obscured. One Flowering Minion appears next to each non-flying PC at the beginning of the round and tries to use a non-damaging Reflex restrain attack (restrain ends at start of next round, as the flowering minions wither away in the dryness). Escape DC is...
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    Need some allies for an evil fey controller

    You need an Owlbear Swarm.
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    Beholder allies

    Take an Earth Titan and reskin it as a "huge headless stone construct." Its body is covered with aberrant mystical runes, carved with impossibly fine tools - an expert eye can tell you that the entire construct was carved from a single gigantic chunk of rock with disintegration beams. Each...
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    I'm playing a pixie! What class should I be?

    You are correct, sir. Though thematically it could perhaps be bloodstone. Some kind of... magical translucent bloodstone. One-way bloodstone mirrors! EDIT: Or blood diamonds!
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    I'm playing a pixie! What class should I be?

    This idea makes sense for almost any of the suggested classes, actually. Lazy Warlord: The lantern contains a tiny study with a comfy chair, bookshelves stuffed to bursting with reference works on the history of combat, one of those ashtrays on a fancy pedestal, a clawed footstool, and another...
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    I'm playing a pixie! What class should I be?

    The One-Ear speaks truth. A selfish Leader might be especially good. You might consider the always-hilarious Lazy Warlord setup, described as the Pixie bossing everyone around like a child who thinks the world revolves around him. You could even describe your Daily powers as "Tantrums!"
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    A Motive for this Villain?

    Randomly riffing... He spent his first year of exile learning new ways to hate. This city didn't like him, and worse, it didn't fear him. Formerly a power to be reckoned in his own little pond, he was barely more than a joke to Gloomwrought. He spent his second year of exile learning to let go...
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    Need some encounters for plains/wilderness

    Perhaps they rise up every night. Two armies are locked in a strange, oddly formalized re-enactment of their final day. Every night, one hour after the sun sets, the skeletons claw their way up to the surface to resume their ancient battle. They don't fight right away- first there's the...
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    Who makes the Coolest Evil Noble Family?

    Shardminds. Hmm. Most shardminds are individual fragments of the Living Gate. These, however, all calved from the same great splinter of the Gate. They fell in a great cluster like a meteor shower and were embedded in a mountainside like a vein of precious minerals. One was near the surface...
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    Your d20...an inny or outy?

    When I DM, I roll in the open unless I have enough notes/stats to require a DM screen, in which case I roll behind the screen because it's easier. Laziness always wins. When I play, I prefer the DM's rolls to be secret, but only because That's How We Did It In 1980, not for any logical reason.
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    What is a Kord related hook?

    Anyone can lead a war. To get Kord's attention you need to fight a war. To be clear, I mean "fight the war" the way you would say "wrestle the crocodile." You beat that damn war into submission with your bare hands. Subdue both sides and send them home through the sheer force of your...
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    Does anyone use the flip-mats?

    It's hard to go wrong with the flipmats. Groups I play in have used the ship, the marketplace, and especially the blank ones. I like to use a big Chessex Megamat, but a folded flipmat is much easier to transport.
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    D&D 4E How Are You Preparing to End Your 4E Campaign?

    Coincidentally, the final session of our campaign was last night. Another member of the group will start a new 4e campaign in a few weeks. It'll probably be wrapping up about when 5e comes out, at which point we'll decide what to do next. I expect to playtest 5e, but I also expect that will...
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