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What monsters just make no sense to you? I'll start with one that has been sticking in my craw for a long time:The Barbed Devil. The Barbed Devil causes fear as a supernatural ability. Fear makes people run away. Why would a grappling creature want someone to run away? The Barbed Devil casts...

11 8th level PCs is considered the equivalent of 4 11th level PCs. I'd say you can take an encounter all the way up to CR 12, but that is pushing it. Any adult dragon will most likely tear the group a new one, DO NOT DO IT. The results would be similar to throwing a CR 16 encounter at 4 11s. It...

I wasn't even aware that the classes needed fixing. I thought these were considered the most balanced fighting classes in Core Dungeons and Dragons. Whats the deal with this thread?

I don't mind the calculators so much. The fact that the people with calculators usually don't even care enough to be aware of the most basic and constant of modifiers like attack and save modifiers and STILL bog down combat, now that I mind.

Avolakias make great undead leaders and could be fun to infiltrate the Pelor priests with one. Boneclaws. Stats here. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20040905a&page=2 HP for DAYS with the d12 and Unholy Toughness. DR 5/Bludgeoning will most certainly rain on the party's parade if...

Labs are so overbred that they seem almost too a dog mentally deficient. The only ones that had I.Q.s higher than a snake's junk that I've ever known were flushing and retrieving dogs from some pretty primo stock.

Sitting for 4 hours can sometimes tire me out, I couldn't imagine standing, pacing, and making arm gestures for 4 hours. In the town that I used to live this DM would have open game night and he'd get totally into it. It was like watching one man theater every Thursday. Totally badass. If you...

No. He ate cats and crapped excellence.

Skill Number 1 Planning AKA KNOW YOUR !@#$ Modifiers!!! Its not too hard but I see people forgetting this all the time. Especially in combat. Base+Key Modifier+Feats+Miscellanae+d20. Even buffed to your absolute gills and keeping in mind other situational mods like striking a prone foe...

See, cats aren't heros. How many times have you heard the tale of the cat that saved its owner's life, or repelled crooks after a break-in. You never hear about valiant bomb sniffing cats or the cat that saved its police officer's life, or the cat that won a reward for valor during war time. You...

The Monster Geographica books.

Rage Drake with a 9th level Dragonwrought Kobold Sorcerer and his 9 HD huge Dire Weasel(you're damn right its huge! :) )

17 HD Will-O-the-Wisp with a level of rogue with 2 13 HD Shadow Rust Monsters that took Ability Focus. That will piss off the 6 melee fighters a LOT. Edit: This is a CR 12 encounter what I'm about to suggest and it will also piss off the other fighter characters tremendously. Elder Earth...

Okay, another example as the dragon strength issue is pretty contentious. You ever get wrecked by goblins or flumphs or kobolds and find yourself going "What the hell just happened?" Its not because the bugbear is the baddest humanoid in all the land, its because the DM took it as a challenge to...

A creature with Grapple at 37 before buffs and feats and attacks at 27 before buffs and feats, 241 HP and 150 feet of flying movement can't use Snatch effectively? What?

I like dogs a little better because at least they contribute. I got a golden retriever and walking that thing for an hour a day for the past year is responsible for 6 pants sizes coming off. That seems pretty common. No cat that I've ever known has been responsible for 40 pounds of weight loss...

I have a few bones to pick with the CR system. One of them being the goofy assumption that an NPC character with levels equals a CR appropriate to that level. The other main beef is the "Dennis Rodman monster". Remember Dennis, the crossdressing psycho rebound machine for the Pistons and Bulls...

Ah, you just learned me something. Thanks.

2 cats, two dogs. And the only reason I like the cats is because they behave like dogs. They answer to their names, do tricks, run up to me when I come home from school, lick my face, etc. I dislike all other dogs and cats that aren't MY dogs and cats.

For all my love of Daemons/Yugoloths I've never fought against them in 3rd edition. They seem like very worthy foes, though. The Ultraloth in particular looks like a really crafty handful. The creature I never want to fight? Ambush drakes. I watched an 11th level party be brought to their knees...