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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6090531" data-attributes="member: 42582">My main experience with elites and solos (especially solos!) is that their problem is not variety but action economy. Giving them more at-wills won't give them more actions. I recently ran an encounter with an MV-style purple worm (I built a 19th level worm that combined most of the featurse of both the MV monsters): it could use a Move Action to "barrel through" and attack multiple targets; it had a good suite of minor action attacks, in conjunction with a bonus minor action when bloodied; and it had the ability to use immediate actions even when subject to action denial.But the fact that it wasn't just strict immunity to effects also meant that the players could make sensible choices to mitigate some of this (such as spreading out to avoid all being barelled through). I had two elite fang titan drakes in the same encounter (a bit of a "hollow earth" vibe), and it worked pretty nicely against 6 PCs.Another solo I used was a Vecna-cultist who had an at-will minor action ability that let him steal thought's from his enemies, robbing them of encounter and daily powers and giving him a bonus action point - and he then had the ability to use action points to shed conditions. That worked pretty nicely too.So I guess my suggestion would be - if you want to make your solos more interesting, look for fun ways to improve their action economy. (Calastryx, from MV2, is another good example of this.)</blockquote>

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