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New Campaign
« on: August 20, 2009, 05:29:23 PM »
Hey i want to run my own campaign and i have never run one before, are there any premade campaigns you guys suggest. Back in 3.5 i was in a heroes of horror campaign and i would like to run a horror campaign.  So if you have used or seen any horror premade campaigns please tell me and post links.

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Re: New Campaign
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2009, 07:17:19 PM »
I haven't actively browsed for premade campaigns for 4th edition, but I don't think there's a premade horror campaign out yet.

Your best bet is simply using tips and tricks from Heroes of Horror in your 4th ed game, and Open Grave (undead 4e monsters).

As an aside, 4th ed. isn't terribly conducive to horror games.

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Re: New Campaign
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2009, 10:14:08 PM »
Umm ... 4e is The Horror , all by itself (?!)
BG made it 18 days without a 4e post, although I do have some work I could do.

Open Grave 2nd.
Wraiths can come to town and turn everybody into Wraiths, including you.
Adjective-Vampires can come to town and turn everybody into xyz-Vampires, including you.
Become a Lich
Become a Lich early
Use the upgrade in Open Grave for a Lich
Add a Lich graft

Wights, or Wight Claw graft, are hell on the Healing Surges.

It's all very scary.

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Re: New Campaign
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2009, 10:55:25 PM »
Umm ... 4e is The Horror , all by itself (?!)
BG made it 18 days without a 4e post, although I do have some work I could do.

Open Grave 2nd.
Wraiths can come to town and turn everybody into Wraiths, including you.
Adjective-Vampires can come to town and turn everybody into xyz-Vampires, including you.
Become a Lich
Become a Lich early
Use the upgrade in Open Grave for a Lich
Add a Lich graft

Wights, or Wight Claw graft, are hell on the Healing Surges.

It's all very scary.

I'll second the Wraith recommendation. Throw on some diseases, add a dash of atmosphere, and there ya go.

Nothing should scare someone who knows the 4e system more than a monster directly attacking healing surges. Every surge drained is like taking 25% percent of your health. Ouch.
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Re: New Campaign
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2009, 11:28:30 PM »
I might also suggest to add monster that penalize Death Saving Throws, they are fun :) Or even better that got a daily attack that inflict you a Failed Death save (quite scary, these thing don't reset after encounter :P) That requires probably custom mobs but it should scare you players (and be much more interesting than you take 13 damage and Ongoing 5 necrotic Save Ends)

It might be a good idea to lower the amount of damage to die from HP to maybe Surge value instead of Bloodied. 4E PCs are very tough and can hardly be killed without great effort and teamwork by monsters (something that not all monster should be able to do).

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Re: New Campaign
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2009, 03:19:12 PM »
Wights ... hell yeah.

Even better is the Wight Claw Graft from Open Grave.
You can stick it on a monster,
without generating the ~costs, that a PC would get (the penalties in the brown box)
works just like the Wights normal attack (give or take)
and it doesn't increase a monster from standard to elite, or elite to solo, or solo to solo+.
It's free.
Well, you can see it easily, and it looks like a Wight claw, and that can be ID'd by the appropriate Monster Knowledge check.

PCs don't get much out of this.
Monsters have 1, 2, or 3 Healing Surges per Tier.
So you could hit a monster for 20% of it's real hit points, once at heroic.
You could hit a monster for 16.6% of it's real hit points, twice at paragon.
You could hit a monster for 14.3% of it's real hit points, three times at epic.
But this is only useful IF , and it's a big if ...
the monster(s) have Second Winds, or Potions, or Class Templates, or Tricky Items they are the guardians of.
Meh.

Monsters otoh ...
wow, they can really gank a party's hit point and heal surge pool.
Of course, once those Heal surges are gone, a Wight / Wight Claw isn't doing much else.
Still knocking out more than half of your hit points rather easily, is kinda Horror-ific.

Wight Claw + ShakaUVM's Intimidate set-up = I wonder how that works ??