Encounter Design

[kaisel]

This is a rather random post, but I've realized I kind of suck at making interesting encounters in D&D. I have one rather trivial puzzle, and one where the players are going to be fighting over rotatable bridges, while trying to get to the other side (kind of like a "why did the chicken cross the road" joke :P). The thing is, while I have this

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[kaisel]

Luckily most of the premade 4th edition ones I've seen make it where there aren't a bunch of cooler people around. In fact, nearly everyone around either sucks, or seems kinda cool then dies.

The encounter actually turned out a bit more interesting than I thought, ended with one of the characters lasso-ing a mechanical flying monkey after being knocked down a floor...

[kaisel]

Yeah it went pretty well, which was good. Still not entirely sure how I feel about the whackiness though, since I'm not exactly the most comic of people :P.