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A steam train races across golden railway badlands past rocky mesas
A steam train races across golden railway badlands past rocky mesasA towering Titan Bulldozer bearing down on the flatbed carHide volumes over the train cars, mech and bulldozer for each wave

Encounter Board #024 - Lava Train

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This floor is designed as a CR 4 train wave event with a CR 5 boss. The primary tileset/theme is railway badlands. It contains hide volumes set up for a series of wave encounters, culminating in the boss.

Feel free to use it with whatever system you like! If you want to remove the tokens, select them all with the lasso and delete them.

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5e Event Instructions

  1. Place player tokens on the flatbed behind the coal car.
  2. Wave 1: Reveal the car ahead as it crashes into the engine.
    • 2x Battle Hammer Dwarves, 4x Clockwork Bronze Scout (Thunder)
  3. Wave 2: Reveal the side car; elementals jump to the flatbed. Griffons approach from the cliff.
    • 2x Earth Elementals, 2x Griffons
  4. Wave 3: Reveal the Weaponized Bipedal Mech as it runs up alongside the train.
    • 4x Quad-Barrel Thunder Cannon, 3x Mobile Tri-Barrel Thunder Cannon
    • Defeat the stationary cannons to destroy the mech, or damage its legs.
  5. I recommend the opportunity to rest before the boss.
  6. Boss: Reveal the Titan Bulldozer behind the train as it slams into the flatbed car.
    • 1x Cathedral Bulldozer Driver, 2x Shield Dwarves, 2x Ogre Bolt Launchers
    • 4x Mobile Tri-Barrel Thunder Cannon (treads), 8x Furnace of Moradin
    • Defeat the driver, furnaces or treads to destroy the bulldozer.

Floor Resources

  • Full encounter pages are available at DnDBeyond (a token on the board also contains links):
  • This encounter chart contains new homebrew creatures and bosses!
    • Creatures: Clockwork Bronze Scout (Thunder), Mobile / Stationary Tri-Barrel Thunder Cannon, Quad-Barrel Thunder Cannon, Cathedral Bulldozer Driver, Furnace of Moradin
  • An environment block for quickly switching to the default settings.
  • Hide volumes pre-configured.
  • Tokens placed (feel free to move them) at max HP.
  • Backup slabs for the bulldozer, mech and flatbed are included (in case you need to delete and move them).

Recommendations

  • Set the Fog to Glowing Heat and raise it to cover the area under the board.

Credits

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Original Publication

Originally published on TalesTavern as Encounter Board #24 - Lava Train and collected on Patreon on January 6, 2024 in Encounter Boards #19 - 25 - Dungeon Crawl Collection Part 1.