Kreodont: переводы

→SAMPLE ENCOUNTER
Because this trap is ideal for controlling large areas of the battlefield. it works well with groups that lack a controller. Its strange and disturbing nature lends itself well to the lairs of depraved cults, undead tyrants, devils, and Far Realm monstrosities.

→TACTICS
Frequently used by the insane or depraved, these paintings are typically placed in grand audience halls or despicable temples. Since it attacks only the enemies of its maker, the painting allows skirmishers and soldiers to position themselves with debilitating effect, and brutes to strike with impunity.

→Countermeasures
* An entrapped character who is trained in Arcana or Thievery can use a standard action to attempt to disable the palming. A DC 28 success with Arcana or Thievery gains 1 success on a complexity 1 skill challenge (4 successes before 3 failures). After 4 successes, the painting is disabled. After 3 failures, each entrapped character takes 3d8 +10 psychic damage. and the skill challenge must be started again.
* The painting can be attacked. it has AC 20, Reflex 20, Fortitude 30, and hp 300.

→Free Itself (Standard Action): A DC 19 intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma check frees the creature from the entrapment. When a creature frees itself from the prison, it is still dazed until the start of Its next turn.

→Stumble Away (Move Action): The entrapped creature cannot run.
Fight the Painting (Standard Action): The entrapped creature can make any at•will attack against the painting. The attack deals damage to the painting's physical statistics (see Countermeasures).

→Hit: 2d8 + 10 psychic damage, and the target's sanity is entrapped within the painting. While the target's sanity is entrapped, the target is dated and slowed and can spend actions in only the following three ways:

→Trigger
The trap Is triggered when an enemy ends its turn within 10 squares of the painting. The trap's psychic attack then lashes out at the creature In an attempt to snare and devour Its sanity.

→Perception
* No check is needed to notice the painting.
* DC 19: A character more than 10 squares away sees that the images in the painting twist and writhe. Something is definitely strange about the painting

→A seemingly normal landscape is carved into the wall, but the more you look at it, the more you spot strange details. Images of vegetation hide eyes, mouths, and claws, and the shapes themselves start to twist into horrid monstrosities that reach out from the mural, lashing at your sanity.

→SAMPLE ENCOUNTER
These traps work best with controllers and soldiers that can force movement into the starlight motes, or limit the range of movements and actions, making the motes more dangerous. Since they are things of the Far Realm, they commonly are encountered with creatures from beyond the• boundaries ofthe known universe.

→TACTICS
Defeating a Far Realm star trap forces the PCs to split up. take damage, and keep the starlight motes apart. Evil creatures place this trap in areas guarded by lurkers and artillery creatures, where splitting up enemies is optimal.

→* A DC 31 Arcana check made as a standard action by a creature sharing the same space with a mote or adjacent to one can calm it for a short time. With a success, the mote unlatches from a creature (if it Is attached) and does not move or attack until the end of the next turn of the creature that succeeded on the check.

→Countermeasures
* The starlight motes are bound to a particular location, and while that location cars be somewhat large. the motes do not pass its boundaries. if a creature with attached motes leaves the area. the motes unlatch at the boundary.

→Opportunity Action
Close blast 5
Target: Each creature in blast
Attack: +31 vs. Reflex
Hit 4d8 + 10 radiant damage. and the target is knocked prone.
Miss: Half damage.
Effect: All the motes are destroyed

→Athletics check to pull the mote off the target. A mote that is pulled off occupies the target's square, but for every 5 points by which the check result exceeds 20. the creature removing the mote can push the mote 1 square.

→Hit: 1d8 +9 radiant damage, and the mote latches on to the target. While a mote is latched on to a creature, that creature is dazed, and at the start of its turn it takes 1d8 + 9 radiant damage. The mote is removed when it is destroyed (see Countermeasures) or when the target or a creature adjacent to the target succeeds on a DC 20

→There's almost always some kind of twist. surprise, or dynamic element of the encounter.

→In addition to trying to make every encounter have some tidbit of story behind it, I'm also learning how to create more dynamic encounters. This is something I've observed from the way Chris Perkins runs his game.

→Dynamic Encounters

→Reward Sound Tactics: When the thinker concocts a sound plan from the information you provide, let the plan pay off. Without altering a combat encounter significantly, you can give the characters an edge in the fight in a variety of ways.