Venture 4th Ice River Battle.pdf

Ice River Battle

YOUR EARS ARE MET BY THE SOUND OF RUSHING WATER, AND YOU

SQUINT AGAINST THE GLARE OF REFLECTED SUNLIGHT. THE MOUNTAIN

RIVER HAS BEGUN ITS SPRING THAW, THE FROZEN SURFACE BREAK-

ING UP INTO ICE FLOES OF VARYING SIZE, ALL BEING CARRIED DOWN-

STREAM.

WITH YOUR ENEMY IN SIGHT, YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO VENTURE

OUT ONTO THE TREACHEROUS ICE, STRUGGLING FOR BALANCE AS YOU

FIGHT FOR YOUR LIVES.

Ice River Battle is the irst of Adamant Entertainment’s VENTURE 4TH line. This product features a unique

setting for a combat encounter, providing full-color printable tiles usable for miniatures, as well as special

rules governing the location.

The Tiles

The Rules

Pages 3 through 10 of this PDF feature full-color tiles

for you to print out and use with miniatures. The tiles

are gridded in one-inch squares. The tiles include:

There are two ways to play the Ice River Battle en-

counter: Flowing or Static.

Static is the basic method. Under this version, the

river is barely lowing, and so the ice loes do not

move. The Game Master places the loes where he

or she wishes at the start of the encounter, and they

remain there for the entire encounter.

Page 3: Shore A (usable as either shore)

Page 4: River (so that you can make the river as

wide as you wish)

Page 5: Shore B (usable as either shore)

Page 6: 1-, 2-, and 3-Square Ice Floes

Page 7: 4-Square Ice Floes

Page 8: 5- and 6-Square Ice Floes

Page 9: 7- and 8-Square Ice Floes

Page 10: 9- and 12-Square Ice Floes

Flowing is more complicated, and can be played with

two variations.

In the irst variation, the Game Master rolls a d6 at

the beginning of the encounter. All ice loes move

downstream this number of squares at the beginning of

every turn.

You can print as many of the tiles as you wish, making

the river as long or as wide as suits your encounter,

and featuring as many ice loes of whatever sizes you

prefer.

In the second variation, different sizes of loes move

at different speeds, as they are carried by the river ac-

cording to their weight. The size categories are:

• Attacking an ice loe directly can result in the loe

splitting into two loes of half size (a 12-square loe

becomes 2 6-square loes, a 7-square loe becomes

two 3-square loes, etc.). A 1-Square loe is destroyed

entirely. To achieve this, you need to do reduce the

loe’s HP to zero. A loe has 20 HP per square in size.

Small: 1-, 2- and 3-Square Ice Floes

Medium: 4-, 5-, and 6-Square Ice Floes

Large: 7- and 8-Square Ice Floes

Huge: 9- and 12-Square Ice Floes

The movement rates are:

• Heat-based attacks ( ireball, laming sword , etc.) do

double damage if used directly against an ice loe, and

if used against a target located on an ice loe, the loe

itself will take 1/2 of the damage as a collateral effect.

(for example, a ireball strikes an orc on an ice loe,

doing 20 points of damage. The ice loe itself takes

10 points.

Small: 6 squares

Medium: 4 squares

Large: 2 squares

Huge: 1 square

As an option, Game Masters can choose to have ice

loes travel erratically, rather than in a straight line.

• Conversely, cold-based effects can “heal” damage

to ice loes (at 1 HP for every 2 damage points done),

and can even make loes bigger by one size class, if

used against an undamaged loe.

• When a Player Character moves onto an ice loe,

they need to make a Dexterity check to avoid falling

into the river. The DC for this check is 15 for Small

and Medium loes, and 10 for the more stable Large

and Huge loes.

• The effects of other magics should be judged situ-

ationally by the Game Master.

• Any Player Character falling into the river may

drown (use the drowning rules of whichever edition

you’re playing), and will also take 1d4 points of cold

damage, every turn. Assuming a character can swim

(or even loat -- not a given, in armor), climbing back

onto an ice loe is a DC 25 task.

• Moving on ice loes large enough to support move-

ment is considered movement through dificult terrain.

If a PC wants to move at their regular speed, they

will need to make a Dexterity check for every square

moved, as if they were moving onto a loe for the irst

time (as above). Falling while not on an edge will

not result in falling into the river, but rather dropping

prone, and the movement ends. The PC can attempt

to rise next turn.

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