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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trip" data-source="post: 652653" data-attributes="member: 8612">I have not had a chance to read much past the second page of this yet, but felt a bit compelled to reply. A lot of great and evil idea's here! Back in the beginning there was a lot of talk about undead, so I figured I would add in a quick bit.I recently ran adventure where the PC's were heading through some pretty big caves and had a run in with some cave trolls. This was more of a setup, as later on they learned that they were actually tracking down an annoying goblin shaman that was giving them a bit of grief.The shaman was actually a necromancer in most cases, and was able to gather up a few trolls that died to more "natural" causes, rather than hacked into pieces, or flamed to death.He "dissected" the trolls insides, actually creating a hollowed shell, the filled it with high amounts of oil and flasks of alchemists fire. Really a dangerous job. But in the end he had 3 of these fellows. Using a bit of magic he animated the corpses as simple zombies, and posted them along one tunnel, each of them along a small cliff a bit higher than the PC's. As the PC's happened by, the zombie trolls would leap from their purches down onto the PC's. Creating a rather large inferno of alchemists fire and oil.Alternatively, in another campaign I used the same basic idea and had a human body that was filled with oil, tied to the cieiling in a crypt. The necromancer knew the cleric PC was highly against undead, and looked to end their suffering at every cost. So he loaded the human corpse up with oil & alchemist. fire. Then tied it to the cieling. When the PC's entered (through a small trapdoor in one corner) I mentioned the heavy smell of oil so they quickly doused the torches. The cleric, spotting the agonized human tied to the cieling quickly shot an arrow through it, hiting the alchemist fire, and setting the whole thing into a nice little explosion, with a big glob of flaming oil raining down. Imagine five people in a small 15' / 15' room, with fire raining down, and only a tiny trap door in one corner to escape from . . .<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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