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<blockquote data-quote="Camelot" data-source="post: 5051860" data-attributes="member: 82617"><p>The terrain powers on page 62 of the DMG2 are really useful at encouraging the players to use the environment to their benefit. For example, if you have a stairway with a banister and you want to encourage the players to use that, write up this terrain power.</p><p> </p><p><span style="color: darkred"><strong>Banister Slide -</strong> At-Will Terrain</span></p><p><em><span style="color: white">You slide down the banister, slice at the enemy at the bottom, and roll out of the way before it can attack you back.</span></em></p><p><strong>Standard Action</strong></p><p><strong>Requirement:</strong> You must be standing at the top of the staircase, adjacent to a banister.</p><p><strong>Check:</strong> Acrobatics check (moderate DC) to slide down the banister.</p><p><strong>Success:</strong> Move to the bottom of the banister and make a melee basic attack or a bull rush attack with a +2 bonus to the attack roll. After the attack, you can shift 2 squares.</p><p><strong>Failure:</strong> You do not move, and your standard action ends.</p><p> </p><p>If you want the players to come up with ideas themselves, terrain powers are not hard to make up on the fly and you can hide the ones you've created in preparation behind the screen. If your players need a little push, write the powers on power cards similar to the ones the players use and give them to the players at the beginning of the encounter so they know they have more options.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Camelot, post: 5051860, member: 82617"] The terrain powers on page 62 of the DMG2 are really useful at encouraging the players to use the environment to their benefit. For example, if you have a stairway with a banister and you want to encourage the players to use that, write up this terrain power. [COLOR=darkred][B]Banister Slide -[/B] At-Will Terrain[/COLOR] [I][COLOR=white]You slide down the banister, slice at the enemy at the bottom, and roll out of the way before it can attack you back.[/COLOR][/I] [B]Standard Action[/B] [B]Requirement:[/B] You must be standing at the top of the staircase, adjacent to a banister. [B]Check:[/B] Acrobatics check (moderate DC) to slide down the banister. [B]Success:[/B] Move to the bottom of the banister and make a melee basic attack or a bull rush attack with a +2 bonus to the attack roll. After the attack, you can shift 2 squares. [B]Failure:[/B] You do not move, and your standard action ends. If you want the players to come up with ideas themselves, terrain powers are not hard to make up on the fly and you can hide the ones you've created in preparation behind the screen. If your players need a little push, write the powers on power cards similar to the ones the players use and give them to the players at the beginning of the encounter so they know they have more options. [/QUOTE]
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