The Black Lantern Ambush
The Black Lantern Ambush
Read Aloud
A bell cracks across the street as black-clad agents shove through the crowd toward the two sigil bearers. Rain runs down the marble steps, awnings strain overhead, and pale dead scribes drift above the stalls with ink-black hands outstretched. The Tribunal has come to take the sigils, not to kill everyone in its way.
Forces
Dark Devotion · Ashen Concealment
Cunning Action · Sneak Attack · Lantern-Step Discipline
Incorporeal Movement · Life Drain · Etherealness · Undead Nature
Battlefield Zones
Crowded marble street with spice stalls, shrines, and panicked civilians. Creatures have half cover while pressed into the crowd; ranged attacks through civilians are blocked.
Rain-slick stairs beside a shrine row. The first creature entering each round must succeed on a DC 12 Dexterity save or fall prone.
Raised aqueduct crossing above the street. A creature shoved from the edge falls 15 feet onto the stalls below.
Terrain Levers
- Ring the shrine bells to scatter civilians and impose difficult movement until the next round.
- Cut a hanging banner to block a 10-foot-wide lane and grant cover.
- Shove a market cart down the rain-slick steps to knock creatures prone.
- Break the aqueduct sluice gate to flood one zone with shallow, fast-moving water.
