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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5665730" data-attributes="member: 54846">For me:The players were in Eberron's Demon Wastes, a magic-blasted, demon-infested desert. They were tasked with cleaning out an abandoned colony. The tone was supposed to be tense and spooky (as it was a demon-tainted and tainted locale), but the PCs had smashed through everything they came to and were acting fairly cocky. I wanted to strike some paranoid fear into them, and was suddenly inspired on the fly. I had them all make fort saves. Two failed.Those two characters began to vomit black sludge. And it kept coming, like a river of the stuff had just opened up in their stomach. They threw up until there were broad puddles of the stuff.As the two PCs lay prone, trying to get their wits about them... the puddles gathered together, rose up, and attacked. The players were floored. They laughed, they flinched, and they fought. And fought hard. I used basic ochre jelly stats. It just so happened that those things like to split apart when hit by sharp objects and the barbarian let fly with his axe. Needless to say the players got surrounded, fast, and two nearly died. After the fight, I'd periodically ask for fort saves, just to make everyone cringe and worry. But man, they were talking about that encounter for days, and one or two told me it was the most memorable encounter they had ever been in. Since then, I try to use the vomit-monster setup with every new group. Maybe it's a demonic monster-summoning ward, or the effect of the Far Realms bleeding over, a weird biomancer's spell, or something else.</blockquote>

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