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<blockquote data-quote="Mathew_Freeman" data-source="post: 4595767" data-attributes="member: 1846">I'll start!Best 4e combat - I modified an encounter in Keep on the Shadowfell to make it more dangerous. What ended up happening is that as the party moved through a small maze of corridors, zombies attacked from all sides! Including behind them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />What made it great was that it used several different sorts of monster - a couple of artillery who could weaken those they hit, lots of minions, and several brutes. It also featured a leader who stood right back and actually led the monsters, keeping the players on their toes. He also then ran away so that the party will have to fight him again later!There were also some terror runes on the floor that caused one character to run screaming down the corridor towards another bunch of zombies, and the many corridors meant the players tried some fun stuff with outflanking.A really great fight, showcasing what 4e is good at.I've had some less fun encounters - mostly where I've not properly upscaled an encounter to reflect how many PC's I have (up to 8 if they all turn up!). If it's lots of minions then they normally last only a round or two - very anti-climatic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mathew_Freeman, post: 4595767, member: 1846"] I'll start! Best 4e combat - I modified an encounter in Keep on the Shadowfell to make it more dangerous. What ended up happening is that as the party moved through a small maze of corridors, zombies attacked from all sides! Including behind them. :) What made it great was that it used several different sorts of monster - a couple of artillery who could weaken those they hit, lots of minions, and several brutes. It also featured a leader who stood right back and actually led the monsters, keeping the players on their toes. He also then ran away so that the party will have to fight him again later! There were also some terror runes on the floor that caused one character to run screaming down the corridor towards another bunch of zombies, and the many corridors meant the players tried some fun stuff with outflanking. A really great fight, showcasing what 4e is good at. I've had some less fun encounters - mostly where I've not properly upscaled an encounter to reflect how many PC's I have (up to 8 if they all turn up!). If it's lots of minions then they normally last only a round or two - very anti-climatic. [/QUOTE]

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