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<blockquote data-quote="Tales and Chronicles" data-source="post: 7317131" data-attributes="member: 6871653"><p>One thing I'd make sure is to boost the Intelligence score of a dire beast so that it could be something more than a mindless beast attacking till its dead. Maybe boosting his Int to 8 so its intelligent enough to lay trap/ambush, hit-n-run etc like a real evil guy.</p><p></p><p>If you can get your hands on the DMG for adventures in middle-earth, there's many pages of plug-in features to add to normal creatures (war-drum, bee hive thrower, nauseating breath, coward, inspiring etc), they even have section of those for wolves (dread howl, pack hunter etc) and spiders (stunning poison, large web etc). It might be a good inspiration. To create boss, elite or dire enemy, I'd go something like:</p><p>Every time you raise the beast HD by 2, add one special features from the list of AiME. So you could take a regular giant spider, add 10 HD, give it 5 new features and you have a multi-legged BBEG that would scare the hell out of me if met in the shower <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tales and Chronicles, post: 7317131, member: 6871653"] One thing I'd make sure is to boost the Intelligence score of a dire beast so that it could be something more than a mindless beast attacking till its dead. Maybe boosting his Int to 8 so its intelligent enough to lay trap/ambush, hit-n-run etc like a real evil guy. If you can get your hands on the DMG for adventures in middle-earth, there's many pages of plug-in features to add to normal creatures (war-drum, bee hive thrower, nauseating breath, coward, inspiring etc), they even have section of those for wolves (dread howl, pack hunter etc) and spiders (stunning poison, large web etc). It might be a good inspiration. To create boss, elite or dire enemy, I'd go something like: Every time you raise the beast HD by 2, add one special features from the list of AiME. So you could take a regular giant spider, add 10 HD, give it 5 new features and you have a multi-legged BBEG that would scare the hell out of me if met in the shower :P [/QUOTE]
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