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L4D and Shadows of the Colossus in D&D
Feygor
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I'm trying to think up some special encounters for 4e to run on my characters. I was hoping to get some feedback on this one that I themed off of L4D.
The players know that at night the dead around them are going to rise so they have been running all day. I am going to have each character make three endurance checks and each one they fail will give them a minus 1 to actions to simulate how exhausted they have all become. The characters will start on one end of a battle mat set up with tons of zombie minions with the objective of reaching the other side to safety. Each turn additional zombies will randomly pop out of the ground. The zombies will have a grapple power similar to that of the Keep on the Shadowfell adventure as they try to pile on the PCs. The PCs can either use their move action together to stay as a unit, giving benefits to each other to avoid being pulled down by the zombie minions, or they can run off on their own and see how they will fair. If they use the move action together I will allow them to use hold actions during the move, so as they move forwards they can react to the zombies they move into. I was thinking about trying to use the Boomer or Smoker in some way but I feel like that is just too much to throw at the group.
I also want to run a Shadows of the Colossus encounter with the PCs trying to climb up and take down one of the Colossus. I could really use some ideas on how this might be accomplished.
Please feedback or other people's ideas on special RPG encounters.
The players know that at night the dead around them are going to rise so they have been running all day. I am going to have each character make three endurance checks and each one they fail will give them a minus 1 to actions to simulate how exhausted they have all become. The characters will start on one end of a battle mat set up with tons of zombie minions with the objective of reaching the other side to safety. Each turn additional zombies will randomly pop out of the ground. The zombies will have a grapple power similar to that of the Keep on the Shadowfell adventure as they try to pile on the PCs. The PCs can either use their move action together to stay as a unit, giving benefits to each other to avoid being pulled down by the zombie minions, or they can run off on their own and see how they will fair. If they use the move action together I will allow them to use hold actions during the move, so as they move forwards they can react to the zombies they move into. I was thinking about trying to use the Boomer or Smoker in some way but I feel like that is just too much to throw at the group.
I also want to run a Shadows of the Colossus encounter with the PCs trying to climb up and take down one of the Colossus. I could really use some ideas on how this might be accomplished.
Please feedback or other people's ideas on special RPG encounters.
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