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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 5777408" data-attributes="member: 20323">What if the temple was defiled by the "Beast" (or whatever entity fits in your campaign world), of which the demon white bear is an incarnation? Until the temple is cleansed the Beast haunts the temple and can do all sorts of nasty things. So the challenge becomes an exorcism.This kind of challenge could easily be treated as LTWDI (Let The Wizard Do It) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />To keep the whole party engaged and to keep the action moving once the ritual is begun they have 3 rounds by which they must succeed or the spirit manifests with a nasty curse (or summons another demon bear).Going the HeroQuet route you might require the PCs take on different ritual roles (eg. Hunter, Maiden, Trickster) in a reenactment. Or you could have any PC who fails a check get sucked into the spirit world where they have to work on the skill challenge "from the other side" while contending with hostile spirits/incorporeal demons.You could include a bit of a temptation to less scrupulous PCs by dropping hints of a way to yoke the demon bear's power so they can summon it later. Play up the risk vs. reward.Dungeoneering could be used to unearth different areas or stone circle wards (a la Indiana Jones), to envision what demolished areas of the temple used to look like (eg. Determining that walls were brightly painted with casein paints), or identifying key supports which need to be destroyed to collapse the lower level on a portal to the Abyss.</blockquote>

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