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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NealTS" data-source="post: 3997749" data-attributes="member: 38610">Assuming you don't want to go with the "chaos as radiation" route (which many of these posts, including my own, were predicated on), there are all sorts of other fun, lighter things you can do.Keep in mind that magic can go wrong, too. Here's a perfect opportunity to bring in those living spells from Eberron, especially as applied to weird, rare spells. The living fireball is overdone. Instead, use a living Quench (Could be scary to humans underground) or a Living Plant Growth. The thing is totally invisible, and can only be tracked by the path of grass that's suddenly growing an inch a second. This would admittedly only be able to do slam damage, unless you want to bend the rules a bit and have the elf's bow start twisting away in his hand, growing branches and leaves.Or maybe "mutated" undead. Bring out all those weird tricks you've always imagined a skeleton doing, like throwing his chomping head at you or dispersing into a whirling cloud of bones. Maybe even skeletal "Spiders" consisting of a skull resting on two downward-facing hands. Or a zombie that's completely typical, except that it's intelligent, urbane, and quite vexed at his current predicament. "I say, my hand seems to have fallen off. Most embarassing."A final idea is living places, awakened by the power of chaos. The Genius Loci from the Epic Level Handbook would be perfect for this. It could eat most parties alive if it wanted to, being an epic encounter, so just make it not want to. Maybe it just wants to talk. Maybe it wants to be fed. Maybe it becomes the PCs' patron.</blockquote>

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