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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riastlin" data-source="post: 5982698" data-attributes="member: 94022">So in a little while, the party is going to do battle in the tomb of a  long "dead" god.  Depending on how things shake out, its possible that  the god will be "reawakening" during the encounter (PCs are 19th level  btw).  I'm planning this as a capstone encounter in a rather lengthy  adventure and the battle should be pretty huge in its own right.That being said, I also think that dynamic terrain makes for the best  encounters much of the time (as well as dangerous/hindering terrain,  terrain powers, etc.  So what, should be in place in the case of a god's  tomb?The first thought I had is sort of a giant sarcophagus (i.e. large  enough to allow the encounter to start on top of it, with the lid slowly  retracting during the battle.That then opens the encounter up to a more 3D perspective as the fight  starts to happen, in part, on the god.  The god will not be a combatant  per se, but I'm thinking sort of a "restless sleep" idea with his limbs  flailing about, possibly crushing and/or pinning combatants.  Gas clouds  (sorta like a breath weapon) also come to mind, and then you have just  the sheer verticle drops that can accompany something like this (after  all, who knows just how big a god's true body really is?)  I'm also thinking that the god's "reawakening" could bring some  beneficial effects with it to, i.e. creating things like energy nodes  that allow a power to be recharged (i.e. recover an encounter power) or  healing font, etc.But I'm still looking for something to make this really memorable, so I  come to you all for ideas (as well as advice on the above suggestions)  for making this truly great.  The main opponent btw will be a solo  dragon (Calastryx) that has previously given the party fits, which is one of the  reasons why I want to make the terrain particularly interesting.</blockquote>

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