Caravan to Set Piece Conversion?

[ERock]

Hey Everyone.

My Group as been Running through this AP for about a year now, and we are only just halfway through The Hungry Storm.

At some point we have moved away from running the caravan encounters as caravan encounters due mainly because my players were not having fun with them.

Spoiler for Book 3:

My main problem is that they are now approaching the part of the story where they are running to Dead Man's Dome. I am having difficulty coming up with a challenging encounter to put there other than having an army of frostfallen zombies and skeletons attack them. i could use some suggestions for an encounter that would ahve the party on the ropes prior to the ghost of the Dead Man arriving.

My Group is level 9 and consists of a Cleric, Sorcerer, Monk, Wizard, Psion, and Soulknife, not to mention the four main NPCs, the caravan drivers and Ulf.

[Matthew Downie]

I can't find my notes now but I had the dome have two entrances. One entrance was guarded by the PCs, the other by the rest of the caravan (off the map).
They were attacked by enemies who arrived in waves, the next wave usually arriving while the first one was just starting to falter.

Each wave was accompanied by skeleton archers - I'd have up to a dozen at a time.

First wave:
Four advanced template frost wights.

Second wave
A ghost and three Hoarfrost Spirits.

Third wave:
A Frostfallen Mammoth.

Fourth wave:
A Cold Rider riding on a Frostfallen bison and a Huge Ice Elemental (burrowing around for flanking).

Precede the battle with people standing around saying heroic last stand things. The PCs have time to buff.
Note that my group was fairly optimized and had a fireball-specialist sorcerer so they found this all pretty easy.
You can make things easier by having them benefit from Ameiko's bardic performance / Koya channeling energy. You can make things harder by having the waves arrive closer together, or simply adding more enemies.

[evilash]

You should check out Under Frozen Stars by Legendary Games. That module is made specifically as a set piece for Jade Regent AP.