Winter farmhouse battlemap

[GlennZilla]

An avalanche might actually make a fun encounter, and it could be a handy and plausible way to separate a PC from troublesome gear.

Two words, "Bogart Rogue". You'll have PC's buying castles to protect thier precious items soon enough.

[Midgardsormr]

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).

[torstan]

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.

[Badger]

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.

The sunder feat is GREAT and EVIL and JOYFUL

[Badger]

Two words, "Bogart Rogue". You'll have PC's buying castles to protect thier precious items soon enough.

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)