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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 4593093" data-attributes="member: 14041">It was mainly just flavor (no pun intended).  The party went to the ruins of an inn at the behest of a patron.  There they discovered entrance to a cellar that served as a brewery.  The brewing apparatus had a vat that was filled with zombie torsos (the limbs were removed to keep them stationary) as part of the fermentation process.  I figured that some special kinds of bacteria were present in undead bodies that gave the beer a subtle aura of necromancy. It was called Dead Man's Brew. The cellar further had a secret entrance the lair of the alchemist/necromancer who had been using the Inn as a front before a group of paladin's burned it down. It was pretty fun.  The PC fought skeletons and monsterous vermin at first (they were only 1st or 2nd level) then I had some homebrew lesser bone golems that were essentailly animated objects tied to a trap that triggered when some one intruded on the secret areas.  That confused them.  The place also had a carrion crawler that was trying desperatelly to get into the vault where the necromancer had stored his raw materials, some zombies left animated in said vault, and jars filled with various arcane substances like dragon's urine and tiny elementals.  On the way home they were ambushed by the necromantic sorcerer and his half-flesh golem henchman that wanted the brew without paying them for it.  It was all set up to lead into a larger conspiracy, but it was just a mini-campaign for some in-laws who had played DnD back when and wanted a taste.</blockquote>

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