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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 410798" data-attributes="member: 4937">Well, a Boogeyman that goes after adults plays off adult sized fears.   Even adults can be afraid.  What sort of thing scares you?However, I still think it is a mistake to play a boogeyman as a thug type monster.   It is much better to use the huge mythological depth (and who isn't afraid of the boogeyman?) of the creature to play up the psychological aspect of terror.   I'd very much want to introduce a horror character like the boogeyman to the characters indirectly or in a form that seems benign at first.   Then let them witness what it does to victims.  Let them become acquainted with someone.   Let the acquaintance become the next victem.   Perhaps at some point let them realize who and what the boogeyman has been all along (evil paradigm shift).   Then let them realize that they have become the next victim.As for powers, it need not be all that masterful at combat.  The game doesn't have to be 'who can dish out the most damage in X rounds'.   Give the Boogeyman fasting healing 15, and some suitable evasion abilities (uncanny dodge, evasion, iron will, hide in plain sight, passwall, shadow walk, ethereal jaunt, or the like), and even if it doesn't have alot of combat ability, it STILL is going to intimidate the characters in a way that Ogres and other thugs are not.  If the party is suitably high level a few levels of sneak attack and improved critical won't hurt.For instance, I have a 'boogeyman' type monster called 'The Spawn of Ugopoth', but also known commonly by names like 'The Well Woman'.   Spawn of Ugopoth are oozing creatures that can appear in humanoid form, usually that of a comely human female.  They are fond of secreting knives within their pliant flesh and extruding them when they need them.   They can grow a third tentacle like arm from the middle of thier back, and they can flow through openings which would normally allow only diminutive objects.   They also have the ability to unleash a geyser like gout of filth and water as a ranged bull rush attack.  They like to attack people in their bath, or to pretend to be drowning in a pond or well and lure the unwary to thier deaths.  Victims often appear to have committed suicide.Average spawn have the abilities of 6th level thieves, 18 DEX, and the weapon finesse (dagger) feat.And of course, they work as assassines for a really really nasty outer planar creature called Ugopoth who prefers to be appeased with human sacrifice (preferably small children).</blockquote>

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