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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 7559695" data-attributes="member: 6696971"><p>Is this Heroic Tier? I'm just going to assume so. If you could provide the Character Themes, I could come up with some specific stuff based off off that. </p><p></p><p>Heroic Tier generically:</p><p></p><p><strong>Hopelessly Lost! </strong></p><p></p><p>Perhaps wicked fey constructed an illusory road so they took a wrong turn at Albequerque and stumbled through a Crossroads into some terrible parallel (and very dangerous place in the Feywild. Level +2, C3 SC to find their way back.</p><p></p><p><strong>Sinkhole Shenanigans!</strong></p><p></p><p>Like the above except the earth opens up abruptly, swallows them into the pitch black Underdark, and completely immovable rubble has them stuck. They have to find another way out. Level +2, C3 SC to find a way back to the surface.</p><p></p><p><strong>Stumble Upon a Lair</strong></p><p></p><p>Oops. Very difficult Solo encounter with lots of Challenging Terrain, Minion Parasites that feed on the creature's leftovers, and Hazards that the creature is immune to.</p><p></p><p><strong>Flash Flood!</strong></p><p></p><p>Maybe they're adjacent to a river. A 100 year storm erupts and the river floods horrifically. Animals panic and stampede upon the PCs. They're separated. The trees in the forest are surly, living things...and don't appreciate being climbed upon...especially when they're soggy from the rain. Level +0, C1 SC and failure means being half-drown and attacked by Pneumonia (Level +2 Disease).</p><p></p><p><strong>A Dire Bear's Favorite Meal</strong></p><p></p><p>A Satyr (Minion - make that clear) is under attack by a Dire Bear and her cubs who are especially excited by Satyr flesh. He probably has an Encounter Power Recharge 6 that lets him use his pipes to get a +4 bonus to Defenses. If the good guys can keep him alive, they can have a Companion Character (Leader - with some kind of Trait that Buffs, an At-Will Rider that Buffs, an Encounter Power Minor Action that Heals).</p><p></p><p><strong>Uncover an Unwanted Truth</strong></p><p></p><p>Something relevant to one of the PCs' Themes. </p><p></p><p>Someone precious is captured and there is a terse ransom letter. </p><p></p><p>Someone they thought they could trust is implicated in something terrible. </p><p></p><p>An ancient, terrible omen is scrawled on a moss-covered rock right before their eyes. The Elder Primal Spirits have been betrayed by the people of the region. For 1 year, verdant, fertile lands will yield a crop that only kills...the creatures of the forest will thirst for human and demihuman blood.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 7559695, member: 6696971"] Is this Heroic Tier? I'm just going to assume so. If you could provide the Character Themes, I could come up with some specific stuff based off off that. Heroic Tier generically: [B]Hopelessly Lost! [/B] Perhaps wicked fey constructed an illusory road so they took a wrong turn at Albequerque and stumbled through a Crossroads into some terrible parallel (and very dangerous place in the Feywild. Level +2, C3 SC to find their way back. [B]Sinkhole Shenanigans![/B] Like the above except the earth opens up abruptly, swallows them into the pitch black Underdark, and completely immovable rubble has them stuck. They have to find another way out. Level +2, C3 SC to find a way back to the surface. [B]Stumble Upon a Lair[/B] Oops. Very difficult Solo encounter with lots of Challenging Terrain, Minion Parasites that feed on the creature's leftovers, and Hazards that the creature is immune to. [B]Flash Flood![/B] Maybe they're adjacent to a river. A 100 year storm erupts and the river floods horrifically. Animals panic and stampede upon the PCs. They're separated. The trees in the forest are surly, living things...and don't appreciate being climbed upon...especially when they're soggy from the rain. Level +0, C1 SC and failure means being half-drown and attacked by Pneumonia (Level +2 Disease). [B]A Dire Bear's Favorite Meal[/B] A Satyr (Minion - make that clear) is under attack by a Dire Bear and her cubs who are especially excited by Satyr flesh. He probably has an Encounter Power Recharge 6 that lets him use his pipes to get a +4 bonus to Defenses. If the good guys can keep him alive, they can have a Companion Character (Leader - with some kind of Trait that Buffs, an At-Will Rider that Buffs, an Encounter Power Minor Action that Heals). [B]Uncover an Unwanted Truth[/B] Something relevant to one of the PCs' Themes. Someone precious is captured and there is a terse ransom letter. Someone they thought they could trust is implicated in something terrible. An ancient, terrible omen is scrawled on a moss-covered rock right before their eyes. The Elder Primal Spirits have been betrayed by the people of the region. For 1 year, verdant, fertile lands will yield a crop that only kills...the creatures of the forest will thirst for human and demihuman blood. [/QUOTE]
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