My lvl 17 party are about to arrive in Ysgard to meet Kord. Before they do though they are going to need to complete 3 or 4 challenges in Ysgard in order to get access to the area Kord is in. Kord and Ysgard are all about strength, combat and competition, so I want to create challenges that represent that. I had the idea to create challenges themed for strength, dex, con and charisma or wisdom for will power.
Anyone who dies in Ysgard is brought back to life the next day so combat can be seen as sporting and good natured.
My ideas so far are; something with storm giants, maybe a good aligned dragon, and basically just throwing a Tarrasque at them and seeing what happens.
All 4 encounters could theoretically be combat based, and I doubt my players would mind too much, but I'd like a little variety. So any ideas fitting the themes of sport, competition or combat would be really helpful to me.
Thanks in advance for any help, 2 years into this campaign and my creative juices are running a little low.
The Bardic Competition: the players pick one PC to be storyteller, who either provides thrilling play-by-play or an after-event dramatic retelling (play by play is probably more fun)
If doing encounters, give them something to make them FEEL epic. A swarm of 8-10 lower CR enemies, who will last maybe 2 rounds per foe can result in a chaotic, exciting battle that the party SHOULD prevail in. If not, it was a huge fight and not soon forgotten.
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Rigged contests! In that tale, Thor and his allies try to beat the Giants, but the Giants are not playing fair. They end up attempting to...
Untying a knot (made of iron)
Hammering (a mountain)
Eating (vs fire)
Wrestling (vs old age)
Racing (vs Thought)
Drinking (the ocean)
Lifting a beast (the midgard serpent that circled the world)
For a 17th level party, something along those lines may be more fun than combat in a location where death is irrelevant. I would not use those particular ones, but I would consider something similar.
Get a dragon's tooth without killing it. (this would be a good-aligned dragon that's aware of the challenge, and wouldn't hurt them much since dragons have tons of teeth, are really tough, and perhapse can re-grow them in perpetuity like sharks why not). The party might have to work together to restrain the dragon, either holding onto its wings so it can't fly, or someone climbing onto the dragon up to its maw, combine spells and brawn to figure render it imobile, etc. Up to the party to decide how to do it.
Get a dragon's tooth without killing it. (this would be a good-aligned dragon that's aware of the challenge, and wouldn't hurt them much since dragons have tons of teeth, are really tough, and perhapse can re-grow them in perpetuity like sharks why not). The party might have to work together to restrain the dragon, either holding onto its wings so it can't fly, or someone climbing onto the dragon up to its maw, combine spells and brawn to figure render it imobile, etc. Up to the party to decide how to do it.
Thanks for the ideas, have given sparked a few of my own that could definitely work
Rigged contests! In that tale, Thor and his allies try to beat the Giants, but the Giants are not playing fair. They end up attempting to...
Untying a knot (made of iron)
Hammering (a mountain)
Eating (vs fire)
Wrestling (vs old age)
Racing (vs Thought)
Drinking (the ocean)
Lifting a beast (the midgard serpent that circled the world)
For a 17th level party, something along those lines may be more fun than combat in a location where death is irrelevant. I would not use those particular ones, but I would consider something similar.
Singing vs a Hurricaine
Climbing a Waterfall
Dragging a Boat
Out staring the sun
Or other things you come up with.
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My lvl 17 party are about to arrive in Ysgard to meet Kord. Before they do though they are going to need to complete 3 or 4 challenges in Ysgard in order to get access to the area Kord is in. Kord and Ysgard are all about strength, combat and competition, so I want to create challenges that represent that. I had the idea to create challenges themed for strength, dex, con and charisma or wisdom for will power.
Anyone who dies in Ysgard is brought back to life the next day so combat can be seen as sporting and good natured.
My ideas so far are; something with storm giants, maybe a good aligned dragon, and basically just throwing a Tarrasque at them and seeing what happens.
All 4 encounters could theoretically be combat based, and I doubt my players would mind too much, but I'd like a little variety. So any ideas fitting the themes of sport, competition or combat would be really helpful to me.
Thanks in advance for any help, 2 years into this campaign and my creative juices are running a little low.
The Bardic Competition: the players pick one PC to be storyteller, who either provides thrilling play-by-play or an after-event dramatic retelling (play by play is probably more fun)
If doing encounters, give them something to make them FEEL epic. A swarm of 8-10 lower CR enemies, who will last maybe 2 rounds per foe can result in a chaotic, exciting battle that the party SHOULD prevail in. If not, it was a huge fight and not soon forgotten.
Talk to your Players. Talk to your DM. If more people used this advice, there would be 24.74% fewer threads on Tactics, Rules and DM discussions.
Another idea is to do The Tale of Utgarda-Loki.
Rigged contests! In that tale, Thor and his allies try to beat the Giants, but the Giants are not playing fair. They end up attempting to...
For a 17th level party, something along those lines may be more fun than combat in a location where death is irrelevant. I would not use those particular ones, but I would consider something similar.
Or other things you come up with.
Get a dragon's tooth without killing it. (this would be a good-aligned dragon that's aware of the challenge, and wouldn't hurt them much since dragons have tons of teeth, are really tough, and perhapse can re-grow them in perpetuity like sharks why not). The party might have to work together to restrain the dragon, either holding onto its wings so it can't fly, or someone climbing onto the dragon up to its maw, combine spells and brawn to figure render it imobile, etc. Up to the party to decide how to do it.