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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 395291" data-attributes="member: 7177">Here's a trick I used recently: There is a powerful demonic entity that wants something from the party - perhaps a specific magic item. But while it is powerful, it can be driven away by even the dimmest light.Smart PCs will soon wise up to it - when it attacks a lonely party member or pack animal, and the rest of the party hear screams, they will investigate. Naturally, they will use light sources to invastigate - which drives the creature away.Emphasize that the creature seems to be too powerful to be attacked directly (and how well can they fight in the dark, anyway?) Now the party will keep fires or lanterns burning all night (which will draw other unwanted attention...), which means the creature can't get at them. So it needs to put the light sources out somehow...I gave the creature the power to create zombies. These zombies were made of any dead creatures in the vincity (in my case, they were killed by the monster in the first place...) - since the party was in an inn at the moment, I used zombie horses, zombie cows, zombie pigs, and even zombie chicken! (And before anyone s<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />s at the idea of zombie chicken, these are pretty fast and thus ideal for running through the PCs' legs and knocking over lanterns and torches...). If you need to put out a large camp fire, use a zombie made out of a large animal and let it "drink" water. Thus, when the PCs cut it up, it spills water all over the campfire...Play this throughout the wilderness, and the PCs will be kept up all night to defend their light sources from zombie attacks, and watching their precious storage of firewood dwindling...   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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