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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Varianor Abroad" data-source="post: 4996476" data-attributes="member: 12425">First off, terrain of any variety spices up the fight a lot more than a static battlemta, or a dungeon that's always level and flat with just some walls. 1) A mix that changes from fight to fight based upon the environment. Mud is a fun, lowlevel hazard. A pile of bodies also hamper movement and provide slight cover. Floating walls that the PCs can attempt to manuever to provide cover are fun. Having to hop across levitating blocks to get to the other side of a room are a challenge. (Particularly if the levitating blocks are actually traps, illusions and a few "enhanced" gelatinous cubes.) Turn your imagination loose and describe a scene. Terrain will suggest itself. Example: You want the PCs to confront a clockwork golem with a "fire in it's belly". It's weakness is that if you open the boiler and douse it's fire, it goes out. Where do they find it? Inside of a massive clock? Well how about moving and malfunctioning clock parts that cover the area? Perhaps loose cogs the size of wagons and rotating/moving  rods and pistons that PCs have to charge through?2) Any combination of terrain is interesting. What you don't want is to hamper the players too much. If the enemy sits behind force walls while the PCs fall down an enormous, endless shaft, then it's a great visual with a sucky combat once the enemy fires arrows, ballistae and fireballs down upon their falling foe. However, a massive fight on a giant platform winching upwards in that same shaft? Interesting. What if the PCs or the enemy target the chains holding it up? Will it tilt? Can people climb the chains? There's so much you can do.</blockquote>

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