The Endless Fighter [Ideas] My Players Out!

[Quartz]

Equally, the figure could only appear to be taking hits - it might be a ghost or some other undead that the zombies are unable to affect.

 

[stonegod]

And of course, most of his levels besides the WJ prc should be in Crusader, from Tome of Battle: Book of Nine Swords.

Ah, but not all of us have/use the ToB, while in an Eberron game, the two sources I used are generally open play.

 

[Bloosquig]

Have him followed by some living spells. Spells like true res / heal / restoration etc. If he's followed by his own little group of super heals and raises he could always come back and it would also kinda explain why he doesn't leave the Mournlands.

 

[pbd]

This is a perfect situation for DM fiat.

You want a guy standing and endlessly fighting undead? Poof you got a guy standing there endlessly fighting undead. Don't worry about mechanics if it's gonna make it less cool.

 

[Solarious]

Agree with pbd. This is the Mournland we're talking about, there are stranger things than a tragically trapped figure endlessly fighting undead.

Like the herds of geletanous decadons that roll along, grazing on the unrotting bodies of the dead before moving on for unscrutable reasons, corpses regenerating in their wake. Or the patches where the ground has become living flesh and sprouts hair. Or a literal rain of arrows. Or that barn where the voice of an ordinary farmer (and the accompanying animials) continues to carry out her daily chores in a folksy accent ("Come 'ere now Betsy, time to relieve yer' udders." "Moo."). Or perhaps the dead, untouched remains of friends and comrades past, reflecting the losses of the Last War and the Mourning itself.

The Mournlands is a DM's playground for creating any effect they wish to create. It's a combination of the bizzare, frightening, mad, and loss all mixed up with a whole lot of lethality: it is the Mournlands. It needs no other introduction; or purpose.

 

[Wik]

It's been mentioned already, but it turns out what I was thinking of is a specific stance, for the devoted spirit tree. It's got a picture of a dwarf on the same page, which is what caused the connection.

Fits perfectly for what you're looking for.

 

[Particle_Man]

Alternatively, they could be stuck in a timeloop, and having some sort of "Groundhog Day Battle".