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<blockquote data-quote="Warforged DK" data-source="post: 7599800" data-attributes="member: 6680531"><p>Here are some of my recent favorite encounters:</p><p></p><p>Party infiltrates a warehouse, eavesdropping on a rival adventuring group and planning on stealing most of the treasure the rivals had gained. The party's necromancer, who had been converting dead enemies into zombies and stuffing them in his portable hole, decided to set the zombies loose in the sewers, with the goal of pushing their rivals towards the sewers as a means of escape. Best laid plans and all, we kind of forgot about the zombies and they ended up setting the warehouse on fire. Six of 7 real time months later, the party returns to the city and ends up at the wharf, near that warehouse when the necromancer says "didn't we leave a bunch of zombies in the sewer here? I wonder what happened to them?" Another player said that a low-level adventuring group was hired to clean them out and thus was born our next campaign. </p><p></p><p>Party is infiltrating an ice dragon's cave. There is a long sloping and twisting tunnel that leads down to a macguffin to move forward in the dungeon. Our heroic fighter tries slowly going down the path and fails every save, sliding down the ice into spikes at each corner. He tries to getup, falls and slides again- 4 curves, went from full HP down to 6. Our Storm cleric yells down "Are you okay?" Then flies down the tunnel, taking no damage at all and asks if the Fighter wants to be carried back up.</p><p></p><p>Later, in that same dungeon, the players fought the White Dragon. I'd given myself enough room to maneuver, but also created a bit of a choke point for the players to get stuck in, so I could breath weapon them all. The cleric had just earned some random loot- Dust of sneezing and choking. He read it over and declared it to be absolutely worthless. Except that he changed his mind and decided to sacrifice himself in the cloud of sneezing dust in the hopes of catching the white dragon off guard. That dang cleric was the only one to make the save. 2 Kobold sorcerers, my white dragon and 3 Kobold dragonshields all succumbed to that dust of sneezing and the party made VERY quick work of them.</p><p></p><p>Another fun encounter was one of the first with a new-ish group. I am converting the Seekers of the Ashen Crown adventure path to 5e for them, and this was the big boss fight towards the beginning of the path, at the end of the first dungeon. Ashurta, legendary warlord, come back to life after 1000 years to slay the tomb robbing PC's. We were using a crit hit/fail chart and wouldn't you know it, Ashurta crit failed his first attack- knocking him prone. He tried attacking from prone and crit-failed again, such that his sword fell out of his hands, landing on his head and knocking him unconscious. The Players, who hadn't even acted yet, all burst out laughing and killed him that round.</p><p></p><p>Gotta love the dice man!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warforged DK, post: 7599800, member: 6680531"] Here are some of my recent favorite encounters: Party infiltrates a warehouse, eavesdropping on a rival adventuring group and planning on stealing most of the treasure the rivals had gained. The party's necromancer, who had been converting dead enemies into zombies and stuffing them in his portable hole, decided to set the zombies loose in the sewers, with the goal of pushing their rivals towards the sewers as a means of escape. Best laid plans and all, we kind of forgot about the zombies and they ended up setting the warehouse on fire. Six of 7 real time months later, the party returns to the city and ends up at the wharf, near that warehouse when the necromancer says "didn't we leave a bunch of zombies in the sewer here? I wonder what happened to them?" Another player said that a low-level adventuring group was hired to clean them out and thus was born our next campaign. Party is infiltrating an ice dragon's cave. There is a long sloping and twisting tunnel that leads down to a macguffin to move forward in the dungeon. Our heroic fighter tries slowly going down the path and fails every save, sliding down the ice into spikes at each corner. He tries to getup, falls and slides again- 4 curves, went from full HP down to 6. Our Storm cleric yells down "Are you okay?" Then flies down the tunnel, taking no damage at all and asks if the Fighter wants to be carried back up. Later, in that same dungeon, the players fought the White Dragon. I'd given myself enough room to maneuver, but also created a bit of a choke point for the players to get stuck in, so I could breath weapon them all. The cleric had just earned some random loot- Dust of sneezing and choking. He read it over and declared it to be absolutely worthless. Except that he changed his mind and decided to sacrifice himself in the cloud of sneezing dust in the hopes of catching the white dragon off guard. That dang cleric was the only one to make the save. 2 Kobold sorcerers, my white dragon and 3 Kobold dragonshields all succumbed to that dust of sneezing and the party made VERY quick work of them. Another fun encounter was one of the first with a new-ish group. I am converting the Seekers of the Ashen Crown adventure path to 5e for them, and this was the big boss fight towards the beginning of the path, at the end of the first dungeon. Ashurta, legendary warlord, come back to life after 1000 years to slay the tomb robbing PC's. We were using a crit hit/fail chart and wouldn't you know it, Ashurta crit failed his first attack- knocking him prone. He tried attacking from prone and crit-failed again, such that his sword fell out of his hands, landing on his head and knocking him unconscious. The Players, who hadn't even acted yet, all burst out laughing and killed him that round. Gotta love the dice man! [/QUOTE]
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