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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tormyr" data-source="post: 6458346" data-attributes="member: 6776887">It depends on how tightly you are holding to the timetable in the adventure.  The dwarven valley is over by the end of act 1 as written.  What I did was have them encounter a group of dwarven refugees as they were pursuing the wizard.  The dwarves explained that they were evacuating their home in the dwarven valley because it had been taken over by zombies. As they parted ways, a little dwarf girl near the back of the group is tugging at her mother to slow down while her mother is trying to get her to hurry up.  The exchange went something like:Girl: Slow down, Mommy.  I think I saw daddy!Mother: Honey, your father has been missing for almost 2 weeks.Girl: No, Mommy, I see him there. (Points back up the road).Mother: Run!At this point, a single zombie comes around the bend in the road.  One of the PCs took it down at range and went to investigate.  As he did so, dozens of zombies come out of the forest and around the bend in the road.  This was back in D&D Next and I had 5 5th level characters, so encounter building had something like 50 or 60 zombies.  I ran it theater of the mind and had each of them decide on an attack, figure out how much space that took up, and roll dice to see how many zombies their attack would affect.  So a fireball is 20' radius 20 * 20 * 3.14 = about 120 sq. ft.  I had the wizard roll a d12 to determine how many zombies were in the blast radius, and then roll up the damage and do saves like normal.  A fighter could swing his weapon through 5 squares, so I had him roll a d10/2 and then roll his d20 to hit and roll damage.  A hit meant it did the damage to d10/2 zombies. They had fun doing something "different" (we normally play with minis) and wading quickly through hordes of zombies felt suitably epic.  I am not sure how well it would work with the final version of the zombies.  You probably couldn't use more than about 20 in my scenario.This tied in the story but kept them from investigating in that direction.  We were playing in Encounters, and we had to get the adventure wrapped up within 3 or 4 weeks.  I had to get them to the next town, stop the pirates, rescue granddaughter, defeat the cult and stop the ice queen. The first two Sundering adventures were great, but there was not enough time in an Encounters season to do it properly.</blockquote>

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