{"id":190,"date":"2009-01-28T20:09:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T20:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2009-02-03T13:57:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T13:57:03","slug":"pile-on-this-undead-are-taking-over-what-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/pile-on-this-undead-are-taking-over-what-happens\/","title":{"rendered":"Pile On This: Undead are Taking Over. What happens?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Help! In my Carnus D&amp;D 4E campaign the PCs failed to stop a permanent rift to the Shadowfell opening. Now undead are pouring out like hallelujahs at a Pelor rave. So, what are the consequences? Got any ideas?<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few I&#8217;ve thought of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wildlife flee in the path of undead. Most animals will sense the danger and make haste. They won&#8217;t migrate or permanently move out though. Not yet, at least. This means I can use fleeing flocks, herds, and swarms to add creepy drama, create sudden danger, or warn the PCs that something nasty is coming.<\/li>\n<li>Shake up the ecosystem. The new danger will dislodge powerful creatures from their lairs and territories. This gives me a good way to bump the PCs up against critters too powerful for them. If the characters choose wisely they can avoid conflict. I&#8217;ll leave it up to them.<\/li>\n<li>Disease. Where the undead travel or congregate I can introduce interesting diseases to the region and to afflict PCs with.<\/li>\n<li>Patches of mist and darkness and magical evil. The rift might be warping reality a bit, which is slowly spreading. This is an opportunity to make combats interesting with various hazards.<\/li>\n<li>Villages are freaking out. Garlic and silver sells out at the markets. Churches fill up. Con men start selling false blessings and protections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, have any other ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help! In my Carnus D&amp;D 4E campaign the PCs failed to stop a permanent rift to the Shadowfell opening. Now undead are pouring out like hallelujahs at a Pelor rave. So, what are the consequences? Got any ideas? Here are a few I&#8217;ve thought of: Wildlife flee in the path of undead. Most animals will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65,69,71,89,72],"tags":[99,103,107,108,111,113],"series":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-creation","category-dnd-4e","category-johnn","category-npcs-etc","category-carnus","tag-4e","tag-at-the-table","tag-campaign-setting","tag-campaigns","tag-encounter-design","tag-feedback"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1toiD-34","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}