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<blockquote data-quote="Jedi_Solo" data-source="post: 3052133" data-attributes="member: 40245"><p>A couple of ideas...</p><p></p><p>Any reason you can't go classic? What about the Terrasque? That means "World Destruction" to most players. Maybe even bumb up the critters INT if the BBET (Big Bad Evil Thing) needs some smarts. If the players have never fought Big T before (and they know of the creature) the fight will be memorable simply because they actually fight the ledgendary (for good or ill) Big T.</p><p></p><p>A second option is that there is more than one critter for the end sequence. Either a multi-enemy fight or one fight on the heels of another. I bring this up for a couple of reasons...</p><p></p><p>A creature that sleeps and will destroy the world screams Terrasque to me (or C'thullu (I can't never spell his name right)) but a CR20 for a 20th level party doesn't seem very climactic to me. </p><p></p><p>Second: you've mentioned that the campaign has been fairly undead heavy. So you could have The Critter be an undead but have something else there as well (a high level cultist?). This serves two purposes: an undead in the fight will let the Anti-Undead PC have something to add to the final fight but hopefully won't steal the spotlight because the other enemy won't be undead. Second, everything I have read says that multiple enemies tend to lead to better fights because the PCs will have to split their focus between The Critter and the other enemy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jedi_Solo, post: 3052133, member: 40245"] A couple of ideas... Any reason you can't go classic? What about the Terrasque? That means "World Destruction" to most players. Maybe even bumb up the critters INT if the BBET (Big Bad Evil Thing) needs some smarts. If the players have never fought Big T before (and they know of the creature) the fight will be memorable simply because they actually fight the ledgendary (for good or ill) Big T. A second option is that there is more than one critter for the end sequence. Either a multi-enemy fight or one fight on the heels of another. I bring this up for a couple of reasons... A creature that sleeps and will destroy the world screams Terrasque to me (or C'thullu (I can't never spell his name right)) but a CR20 for a 20th level party doesn't seem very climactic to me. Second: you've mentioned that the campaign has been fairly undead heavy. So you could have The Critter be an undead but have something else there as well (a high level cultist?). This serves two purposes: an undead in the fight will let the Anti-Undead PC have something to add to the final fight but hopefully won't steal the spotlight because the other enemy won't be undead. Second, everything I have read says that multiple enemies tend to lead to better fights because the PCs will have to split their focus between The Critter and the other enemy. [/QUOTE]
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