My players tend to stop burning everything down after a band of orks burn them out of an abandoned farmhouse. Fire is a two way street.
My players tend to stop burning everything down after a band of orks burn them out of an abandoned farmhouse. Fire is a two way street.
Two half-ogres in shiny pinstripe suits come to visit the PCs: "We is here to investuhgate reports of non-union arson in dis here area. Youse guys know anytin about dis?" Especially effective on lower-level PCs.
edit: I suppose that should be "non-guild" for a fantasy setting rather than "non-union".
The PCs find another house on a steep slope deep in snow. They torch the house and walk down the slope laughing. The snow above starts to melt. They hear a dull rumble and look up to see a wall of ice and snow bearing down on them.
As they roll up new characters the GM leans back with an innocent look on his face "Well if you will torch everything..."
An avalanche might actually make a fun encounter, and it could be a handy and plausible way to separate a PC from troublesome gear.
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Laugh. Sure, but you can only spring so many thieves on a group before they call "foul!" And it's always better when they lose as a result of their own foolish actions (setting fire to things).
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Yes, I ran an encounter in an avalanche once - almost suffocated the dwarven cleric. The rest of the party had to use detect magic to try and find him under the snow before he died. All good fun.
In 3.5 all you need to do is throw one monster against them with the sunder feat and the parties' net worth drops like a stone. The Nightwalker's crush item power is pretty horrible too. And there's always the humble rust monster.
I always loved Mordenkainen's Disjunction completely eveeel spell
I did this to a high level party (2e) (approx26+ lvl) ... we spent about the next six hours on checks for their equipment ... and yes.. I made them roll for every single item right down to individual potions... (all like 99 cure serious the fighter was carrying around in a bag of holding... which was undone... spilling those 99 potions... lol)