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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SiderisAnon" data-source="post: 3260637" data-attributes="member: 44949">How To Kill A Pack of UndeadI have had two different players independently use gravity to kill a group of undead.The first was in a home game a number of years ago back in the days of 2nd Ed. A rogue-type encountered a group of skeletons. He knew they were to much for him, so he went running. He was on the second level of a tower. Rather than run down and outside to the party, he ran up the stairs ... all the way to the roof, all the while with the skeletons at his heels. He reached the roof, ran to the edge, and jumped. He figured the falling damage would be less painful than the skeletons. I made a quick Int check for the skeletons, they failed, and so they chased him off the roof. The rogue just managed to roll out of the way before a dozen skeletons rained down around him. Only one skeleton survived the fall, and the party made short work of it.The second was at the 2005 Game Day. I wasn't running the pregen module because we had more DMs than players and I had players in my group who'd read the module. So I created an on-the-fly adventure using the same miniatures and elements. There was a half-ogre barbarian working for the drow. He had an amulet that let him give commands to some of the zombies the drow had. Unfortunately, the commands were in a language the character didn't speak. (Basically, an order of 'take commands from anyone wearing this amulet'.) One of the characters witnessed the half-ogre giving orders to first group of undead encountered. Later, the part ran into a much bigger group of zombies guarding the lair entrance. The player put on the amulet, walked up to the undead, and repeated the commands as best he could, hoping it would make the undead wander off. Instead, they moved up to him. He retreated, they followed. So, he started leading them away. But he didn't know what to do with the undead. As this was hilly country, he walked them to the edge of a cliff and he began climbing down the cliff. (He was also playing a rogue.) The zombies tried to follow. They began failing climb checks and plummeting to their destruction. (And any that weren't destroyed were certainly well out of guarding the entrance to the cave.)</blockquote>

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