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<blockquote data-quote="Vayden" data-source="post: 4595889" data-attributes="member: 57791"><p>Hehe. I loved it. If you ask my players, that may actually be their 3rd or 4th favorite fight from that campaign. Other good ones from there:</p><p></p><p>4th level - the monastery siege:</p><p></p><p>The party was trying to take over a ruined monastery as a safe point for a bunch of villagers from Winterhaven who they'd evacuated ahead of the undead apocalypse. They found the monastery was occupied by goblins and besieged by skeletons - they rode their horses into the midst of the skeletons (4 boneshards and 25 minions) and had their first big fight with the new post-TPK party. It was an absolutely huge melee with minions dying left and right, and the boneshard's explosion effects chaining off of each other. Loads of fun. </p><p></p><p>6th level - Well of Demons </p><p></p><p>I pulled the Well of Demons mini-dungeon out of Thunderspire and re-skinned it as an extra-planar dungeon in a pocket dimension. When they got to the big set piece fight with the dragon and the rolling spiked ball of doom they just cut loose - they ended up bull-rushing and sliding the dragon into the path of the spiked ball multiple times. Poor dragon never stood a chance. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/cry.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":.-(" title="Cry :.-(" data-shortname=":.-(" /></p><p></p><p>7th level - The Battle for Fallcrest </p><p></p><p>They used the delay from the bridge fight to go recruit an army of gnolls (retrieved a gnoll artifact I made up from the Well of Demons) and came back to smash into the rear of the undead army in the middle of the town. After a series of punishing melees and a skill challenge to keep the gnolls disciplined instead of falling into unorganized blood-lust, they finally cornered the undead general in the Square of the Fountains. I went all out no holds barred at them - one level 8 elite controller (general), 3 level 6 soldiers (Eaters of Knowledge from Pyramid of Shadows), 2 level 7 artillery on the roofs (trog. impaler re-skinned and another different Eater of Knowledge), a zombie hulk (level 8 brute) and a tomb guardian skeleton (level 10 brute that I dropped to level 9). The fight surged back and forth across the courtyard, people switching positions multiple times - at one point I had the entire party bloodied, the cleric was dying 2 or 3 different times, and I think most of them were in single digit hitpoints when they finally won. <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 :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> That one was a lot of fun too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vayden, post: 4595889, member: 57791"] Hehe. I loved it. If you ask my players, that may actually be their 3rd or 4th favorite fight from that campaign. Other good ones from there: 4th level - the monastery siege: The party was trying to take over a ruined monastery as a safe point for a bunch of villagers from Winterhaven who they'd evacuated ahead of the undead apocalypse. They found the monastery was occupied by goblins and besieged by skeletons - they rode their horses into the midst of the skeletons (4 boneshards and 25 minions) and had their first big fight with the new post-TPK party. It was an absolutely huge melee with minions dying left and right, and the boneshard's explosion effects chaining off of each other. Loads of fun. 6th level - Well of Demons I pulled the Well of Demons mini-dungeon out of Thunderspire and re-skinned it as an extra-planar dungeon in a pocket dimension. When they got to the big set piece fight with the dragon and the rolling spiked ball of doom they just cut loose - they ended up bull-rushing and sliding the dragon into the path of the spiked ball multiple times. Poor dragon never stood a chance. :.-( 7th level - The Battle for Fallcrest They used the delay from the bridge fight to go recruit an army of gnolls (retrieved a gnoll artifact I made up from the Well of Demons) and came back to smash into the rear of the undead army in the middle of the town. After a series of punishing melees and a skill challenge to keep the gnolls disciplined instead of falling into unorganized blood-lust, they finally cornered the undead general in the Square of the Fountains. I went all out no holds barred at them - one level 8 elite controller (general), 3 level 6 soldiers (Eaters of Knowledge from Pyramid of Shadows), 2 level 7 artillery on the roofs (trog. impaler re-skinned and another different Eater of Knowledge), a zombie hulk (level 8 brute) and a tomb guardian skeleton (level 10 brute that I dropped to level 9). The fight surged back and forth across the courtyard, people switching positions multiple times - at one point I had the entire party bloodied, the cleric was dying 2 or 3 different times, and I think most of them were in single digit hitpoints when they finally won. :) That one was a lot of fun too. [/QUOTE]
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