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<blockquote data-quote="OnlineDM" data-source="post: 5296631" data-attributes="member: 90804">I'm still a relatively new player and DM, so I don't have quite the bucket of past encounter memories to pull from yet.&nbsp; My favorite encounter so far was my custom modification of the despository scene from the first adventure of War of the Burning Sky.&nbsp; The party is on the third-floor of a four-story round tower with curving staircases connecting the floors and a bunch of metal racks of lockers throughout each floor.&nbsp; A shapeshifter has replaced the person they're supposed to meet, and when this is all revealed the shapeshifter attacks and has his half-orc goons burst through the doors to the balcony from the north, south, east and west.To make things a little more interesting, there's a lightning bolt trap that goes off as soon as anyone uses arcane magic (which the shapeshifter does at the first opportunity).&nbsp; I rolled 2d6 (changing any 12s to 11s) to determine which of the 12 rows of the tower floor would be attacked by lightning, and I gave the bad guys some push abilities to throw PCs into the bolts.&nbsp; The 2d12 made it more likely that it would hit somewhere in the middle.&nbsp; (If I had this to do over again, I would probably have the lightning bolt act on two different initiative counts, just to make it more exciting.)I had the doppelganger make use of the stairs - climbing up and jumping down - to try to save his hide, and I ultimately had him go out onto the balcony and drink a potion to try to teleport to safety, but the Burning Sky effect caused this &quot;escape pod teleport&quot; to kill him off in a burst of flame.&nbsp; It was a lot of fun.The details and the <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6875434/Bank%20Battle.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a> of the custom encounter are <a href="http://onlinedm.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/war-of-the-burning-sky-session/" target="_blank">here on my blog</a> for anyone who's interested.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OnlineDM, post: 5296631, member: 90804"] I'm still a relatively new player and DM, so I don't have quite the bucket of past encounter memories to pull from yet. My favorite encounter so far was my custom modification of the despository scene from the first adventure of War of the Burning Sky. The party is on the third-floor of a four-story round tower with curving staircases connecting the floors and a bunch of metal racks of lockers throughout each floor. A shapeshifter has replaced the person they're supposed to meet, and when this is all revealed the shapeshifter attacks and has his half-orc goons burst through the doors to the balcony from the north, south, east and west. To make things a little more interesting, there's a lightning bolt trap that goes off as soon as anyone uses arcane magic (which the shapeshifter does at the first opportunity). I rolled 2d6 (changing any 12s to 11s) to determine which of the 12 rows of the tower floor would be attacked by lightning, and I gave the bad guys some push abilities to throw PCs into the bolts. The 2d12 made it more likely that it would hit somewhere in the middle. (If I had this to do over again, I would probably have the lightning bolt act on two different initiative counts, just to make it more exciting.) I had the doppelganger make use of the stairs - climbing up and jumping down - to try to save his hide, and I ultimately had him go out onto the balcony and drink a potion to try to teleport to safety, but the Burning Sky effect caused this "escape pod teleport" to kill him off in a burst of flame. It was a lot of fun. The details and the [URL="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6875434/Bank%20Battle.pdf"]PDF[/URL] of the custom encounter are [URL="http://onlinedm.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/war-of-the-burning-sky-session/"]here on my blog[/URL] for anyone who's interested. [/QUOTE]

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