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<blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 2405803" data-attributes="member: 2013"><p>1 - Orc - need mindless legions of mooks</p><p>2 - Zombie - need mindless legions of undead</p><p>3 - Mummy - "Classic" horror undead</p><p>4 - Vampire - "Boss" undead</p><p>5 - Ogre - "Boss" for orcs</p><p>6 - Troll - Uberboss for orc mooks</p><p>7 - Wyvern - "Minor" Dragon</p><p>8 - Red Dragon - Pick an age category (need a "major" dragon)</p><p>9 - Genie or Elemental (your pick) - Your conduit to the inner planes</p><p>10 - Stone Golem - Need at least one construct</p><p>11 - Medusa - More versatile than a basilisk or cockatrice or gorgon thanks to potential character levels</p><p>12 - Minotaur - Stuff of legends, and with character levels makes a nice threat</p><p>13 - Gelatinous Cube - Because there's always room for jello - and oozes</p><p>14 - Hellhound - Can be used as demonic/devil steed AND with your orc mooks</p><p>15 - Imp - Because you need a wimpy devil</p><p>16 - Chained Devil - Mid-power devil</p><p>17 - Pit Fiend - "Boss" Devil</p><p>18 - Glabrezu - "Mooks" of demondom</p><p>19 - Succubus - Because you can't have demons in a campaign without a succubus.</p><p>20 - Balor - "Boss" Demon</p><p></p><p>How's that look? A little bit of everything, with attention paid to the need for both mooks and bosses.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Not 100% happy with minotaur at #12 and medusa at #11; could see putting in Gargoyles for "mook constructs" and elementals/genies (whatever you didn't put in at #10) to give you two inner planes representatives - or maybe sub in werewolf instead. Mummy at #3 could go too, but I like having something between zombies and vampires - and mummy rot is lethal at level 3-6 if you're not careful. If you take out the mummy, maybe that's where you sub in werewolves.</p><p></p><p>Don't forget, many of the "non-character-levelling" guys can be advanced with Hit Dice - a triple Hit Dice mummy is a rather nasty threat and a whole tomb of them can level even close-to-name-level PCs. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>--The Sigil</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Sigil, post: 2405803, member: 2013"] 1 - Orc - need mindless legions of mooks 2 - Zombie - need mindless legions of undead 3 - Mummy - "Classic" horror undead 4 - Vampire - "Boss" undead 5 - Ogre - "Boss" for orcs 6 - Troll - Uberboss for orc mooks 7 - Wyvern - "Minor" Dragon 8 - Red Dragon - Pick an age category (need a "major" dragon) 9 - Genie or Elemental (your pick) - Your conduit to the inner planes 10 - Stone Golem - Need at least one construct 11 - Medusa - More versatile than a basilisk or cockatrice or gorgon thanks to potential character levels 12 - Minotaur - Stuff of legends, and with character levels makes a nice threat 13 - Gelatinous Cube - Because there's always room for jello - and oozes 14 - Hellhound - Can be used as demonic/devil steed AND with your orc mooks 15 - Imp - Because you need a wimpy devil 16 - Chained Devil - Mid-power devil 17 - Pit Fiend - "Boss" Devil 18 - Glabrezu - "Mooks" of demondom 19 - Succubus - Because you can't have demons in a campaign without a succubus. 20 - Balor - "Boss" Demon How's that look? A little bit of everything, with attention paid to the need for both mooks and bosses. EDIT: Not 100% happy with minotaur at #12 and medusa at #11; could see putting in Gargoyles for "mook constructs" and elementals/genies (whatever you didn't put in at #10) to give you two inner planes representatives - or maybe sub in werewolf instead. Mummy at #3 could go too, but I like having something between zombies and vampires - and mummy rot is lethal at level 3-6 if you're not careful. If you take out the mummy, maybe that's where you sub in werewolves. Don't forget, many of the "non-character-levelling" guys can be advanced with Hit Dice - a triple Hit Dice mummy is a rather nasty threat and a whole tomb of them can level even close-to-name-level PCs. :) --The Sigil [/QUOTE]
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