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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 4780784" data-attributes="member: 99">I've had a few recently that were pretty dynamic and fun.Fights on an Airship:  First one had some of the bad guys land (on Griffons) on top of the gas bag and some land on the deck of the ship.  The PC's were fine fighting the latter until they started seeing ropes snap loose from above as the the foes up there began cutting the lines.  That certainly gave them a sense of urgency to get up top and do something about it.  Also the big bad guy in that fight had a lot of Push effects.  Scary stuff when you are thousands of feet off the ground.Later they ran into some Harpies.  Harpies Pull and a couple of characters got dragged overboard and fell onto the rocky ledge below where the Harpy nests were.  In retrospect I really wish that I'd had some young harpies down there to feast on the bodies of the fallen.  Because tumbling 30 feet onto rocks for a bunch of damage and then being attacked by babies would have made that scene pop even more.  I'll know next time.I also had a fun battle where the enemy spellcaster was doing a ritual to summon a demon.  So disrupting the ritual was an objective in the fight.  As it turned out the demon got summoned but wasn't controlled or bound.  So it ended up killing the summoner before attacking the party.I'm also a big fan of fights that change significantly part way through.  The PC's were fighting some Ettercaps and their "spider queen" in her lair.  They had a couple of regular Ettercaps to fight and each round the spider queen would rip open an egg sack and add another Ettercap minion to the fight.  The PC's finally finished off the Ettercaps and turned on the queen spider.  When she'd take a certain amount of damage her huge abdomen ripped open and a swarm of tiny spiders spilled out.  This completely changed the nature of the fight and required the players to use totally different tactics than they had been so it made for a fun finish to the fight.</blockquote>

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