Search results

Here's another shot at a Super-Solo. In fact... a Tarrasque. Down to level 20 like it should be. Tarrasque Level 20 Super-Solo Brute Gargantuan Elemental Magical Beast XP 35,000 Initiative +13 Senses Perception +15; Blindsight 20 Earthbinding aura 60; any flying creature in the aura has...

It'll be a session or two before Estia is used, so I'm using pure conjecture here, but my was of imagining the battle is everyone staying the hell away from here, fighting off the summoned undead, sacrificing actions to make skill checks from a distance. I used Aura 5 because that made for a...

Taking what I learned from my first time running a super solo, here's the next one. This is the Winter Nymph's sister, Estia Tellach (Hearthstone in Gaelic) who is developed from the Level 16 Passion Devil with the Feyborn template added, making it elite. Estia's summoning ability is story...

The little girl was protected. For that session she was within the blizzard gale aura but untouched by it. And yes, 2D figures seeking after the PCs is pretty much how it went. Then the crayon drawings were able to come out. Next session, she won't have the wind protection, but I have plans...

So, a few weeks have past, the group has leveled up to level 3, and they're facing this girl now. They're barely through the start of the encounter (just broke through the first whirlwind defence and are about to start the damage) but I have some play notes. The encounter is set that we have...

It is meant to be a tier above. But like pippen said earlier in the thread, a solo creature is ironically best used with other creatures. One intention for supersolos is that it be able to be used actually solo. That doesn't necessarily have to be the case, as shown when I talked about the...

Hrm. Interesting. I'm new (but eager, it's already been 5000x easier to prepare sessions) to DMing 4e, so I don't know if this is true or not, but I remember those threads with people posting how to demolish Orcus without breaking a sweat, so you may be right. On the bright-side, it does mean...

I'd imagine a supersolo challenging 4 or 5 PCs, alone without allies. Which is part of the point. As far as the social challenge, I considered it a case of the PC's psyching themselves up, convincing themselves that their foe is their foe, debating within themselves in over to overcome the...

That's part of the point, that it is very clearly beyond a normal boss fight. This is a climactic fight against someone very very clearly stronger than you... note that Winter Nymphs are normally level 15 standard creatures. This is definitely not something you STUMBLE upon. This is that...

Upper Krust, in his infinitely tardy manner, has discussed a number of fascinating concepts regarding monster usage. Basically, he has proposed that any creature can be taken and modified +/- 5 levels by changing its status, say, from standard to minion, or from elite to solo. Furthermore, a...

As mentioned, here's a Level 1 Supersolo Winter Nymph. Winter Nymph Lvl 1 Supersolo Artillary Medium fey humanoid Exp 600? HP 116; Bloodied 58; Initiative +4 AC 15; Perception +4; Low Light Vision Fortitude 16; Reflex 18; Will 15 Speed 7 (Forest Walk), Fly 10 Traits Blizzard...

So, Krusty previewed his supersolo rules, basically building off of Lolth from MM3. As cool as Lolth is, I'm not sure it's appropriate for every being. Furthermore, I like Krust's idea of using the Minion/Normal/Elite/Solo/Supersolo rules to move creatures up and down levels, enabling players...

Neat. Your idea for Cimeriels is pretty similar to the evil minions in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy. There, they gain various magic powers by impaling themselves and someone else with magic powers, killing the other person an imbuing themselves with a fraction of what the target had as...

EDIT: Ignore this post. I didn't realize your old website still existed in tandem with the new one. On the other hand, have you considered migrating the old articles over to your new website, for ease of navigation?

Dangit Krusty, do you not WANT my money?

So, Krusty, keeping up with your schedule? Just checking up on you...

We shall see... we shall see. Personally, I'd be willing to pay for just the Boss, Unit, and Superboss rules with a single set of example stats for each. I'm PARTICULARLY interested in rules for fighting city/mountain/planet/star/galaxy sized creatures. It pains me to know that even if this...

I've only been recently studying this stuff... so it only now occurred to me to ask: is your 9th dimension the Chasmal, G-d's Talit Katan, inhabited by the The Four Living Beings which are His Tzitzit? Also within which is G-d's tefillin, doorway to the akashic records, which is connected to...

As far as demons go, I prefer Juiblex. In my games, he/it is the one who wishes nothing more than to cause as much suffering as possible to all beings, mortals in particular, while the other demons are more focused on wars in the heavens, and are much less interesting. But Juiblex isn't the...

My favorite kind of wish, and one that isn't really abusable, is the kind where you ask a powerful being to grant your wish. That being doesn't just magically make it happen, that being uses all the normal resources it has access to in order to fulfil your request to the best of its ability...