Challenging my high-lvl group (NPCs and monsters; my players shouldn't read this!)
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PC I dont know if this thought has come to you or if you'd even care to try it but.....
While looking throught Traps & Treachery I I came across the old classic shoots and ladder trap that spits you out into a 10 ft. by 10 ft. chamber filled with neck deep water in the water a number of zombies lie in wait for the unlucky adventurer who just so happens to trip the spot....
On to thought two a large water creature with your true ghoul template (say a Kraken) in a larger room filled with more water (mayhaps even an underground grotto that leads into some endless expanse of underdark ocean....
Next lose the shoot and ladder and make it a teleport with out error trap or any number of instant there traps (such as a mass teleport keyed to a 10ft area directly in front of a door handle for instance) anyway the possibilities are extremely endless
While looking throught Traps & Treachery I I came across the old classic shoots and ladder trap that spits you out into a 10 ft. by 10 ft. chamber filled with neck deep water in the water a number of zombies lie in wait for the unlucky adventurer who just so happens to trip the spot....
On to thought two a large water creature with your true ghoul template (say a Kraken) in a larger room filled with more water (mayhaps even an underground grotto that leads into some endless expanse of underdark ocean....
Next lose the shoot and ladder and make it a teleport with out error trap or any number of instant there traps (such as a mass teleport keyed to a 10ft area directly in front of a door handle for instance) anyway the possibilities are extremely endless
Lots of good stuff here. I really like the extra-planar art, the merchants catching drift from the surface, the keepers singing to the eggs to program them, and the areas that are partially submerged.
I'd suggest a pillar-like structure, with there being both stairs and water filled chutes. Walk up the stairs, swim down the chute, like an escalator.
Oh, and if any of your players have young kids, you *have* to include kuo-toa going out with nets to go jellyfishing....
Edit - almost forgot. The merchant/scavengers could be hotly debating how much a small statue of a surface holy man would be worth. Surely its a holy relic of some kind
I'd suggest a pillar-like structure, with there being both stairs and water filled chutes. Walk up the stairs, swim down the chute, like an escalator.
Oh, and if any of your players have young kids, you *have* to include kuo-toa going out with nets to go jellyfishing....
Edit - almost forgot. The merchant/scavengers could be hotly debating how much a small statue of a surface holy man would be worth. Surely its a holy relic of some kind
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Eccles
Ragged idiot in a trilby.
PC,
I just had a thought, which wouldn't work with my players, but I'm sure will do great with yours...
You've mentioned in the past that the Defenders have been watched in combat. Is it not also fair to say that they've probably been watched at other times, too?
In which case, when the ghouls actually attack, they're most likely to capitalise on the Defenders' psychological weaknesses. (And you just know your players would play along and make it so much more amusing).
For instance Agar's aversion to insects; if either a swarm of beetles preceded the attack, or if each enemy was coated with beetles, then Agar wouldn't have a clue who to attack (as they'd all be equally terrifying)...
The simplest Legend Lore about Nolin would provide his phoenix background, together with plenty of detail of his past indiscretions. Result? Either cold-based attacks, telekinesis to make the most of it when he explodes, or all the attacking ghouls polymorphed to look like his past lovers.
Malachite's obsession with slaying the undead is a weakness in itself. Galthia could be distracted with visions of Illithids backed with a few psionic attacks.
Just a few suggestions (which you've probably already considered) to make it look like the White Kingdom's been doing its research!
I just had a thought, which wouldn't work with my players, but I'm sure will do great with yours...
You've mentioned in the past that the Defenders have been watched in combat. Is it not also fair to say that they've probably been watched at other times, too?
In which case, when the ghouls actually attack, they're most likely to capitalise on the Defenders' psychological weaknesses. (And you just know your players would play along and make it so much more amusing).
For instance Agar's aversion to insects; if either a swarm of beetles preceded the attack, or if each enemy was coated with beetles, then Agar wouldn't have a clue who to attack (as they'd all be equally terrifying)...
The simplest Legend Lore about Nolin would provide his phoenix background, together with plenty of detail of his past indiscretions. Result? Either cold-based attacks, telekinesis to make the most of it when he explodes, or all the attacking ghouls polymorphed to look like his past lovers.
Malachite's obsession with slaying the undead is a weakness in itself. Galthia could be distracted with visions of Illithids backed with a few psionic attacks.
Just a few suggestions (which you've probably already considered) to make it look like the White Kingdom's been doing its research!
Capellan
Explorer
Hmm. From the tenor of recent posts in the story hour, I'm wondering if someone is planning a 'requiem for a god' ...
Though given this is Piratecat's game, it could be something far more inventive
Note to self: must remember to add Piratecat to list of personalities to stalk at GenCon ...
Though given this is Piratecat's game, it could be something far more inventive
Note to self: must remember to add Piratecat to list of personalities to stalk at GenCon ...
Bronz Dragon
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please, Please, PLEASE! let them have to go back in time!!
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