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<blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 8019753" data-attributes="member: 6788736">As a DM?Your best course of action is to include environmental things in encounters that can be interacted with.Levers to pull. Statues to topple. Cauldrons to tip over. Vats of acid to shatter. Ropes to swing from. Platforms to leap from. Ritual books to activate. Strange potions to drink. Pits to activate or shove enemies into. Magic items linked to the BBEG that when messed with, weaken him. Horns to blow. Arbelests to man. Etc etc etc.I love including these in big set piece battles (without over using them) and in smaller encounters as well.I once staged a super deadly fight vs some vampires in a run down town (post apocalyptic style). The plumbing had broken leaving a river of water across the back third of the room, there was ruined debris everywhere, magical darkness and a hole in one wall that led to an adjoining house.The PCs didnt think to use the water or the neighbouring house to their advantage vs the Vampires.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Flamestrike, post: 8019753, member: 6788736"] As a DM? Your best course of action is to include environmental things in encounters that can be interacted with. Levers to pull. Statues to topple. Cauldrons to tip over. Vats of acid to shatter. Ropes to swing from. Platforms to leap from. Ritual books to activate. Strange potions to drink. Pits to activate or shove enemies into. Magic items linked to the BBEG that when messed with, weaken him. Horns to blow. Arbelests to man. Etc etc etc. I love including these in big set piece battles (without over using them) and in smaller encounters as well. I once staged a super deadly fight vs some vampires in a run down town (post apocalyptic style). The plumbing had broken leaving a river of water across the back third of the room, there was ruined debris everywhere, magical darkness and a hole in one wall that led to an adjoining house. The PCs didnt think to use the water or the neighbouring house to their advantage vs the Vampires. [/QUOTE]

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