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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quasqueton" data-source="post: 1624866" data-attributes="member: 3854">Use a really big mini (or a "maxi", as I call them). When the six PCs in my campaign encountered an elder treant (when the PCs were 6th level), I used the LotR Treebeard action figure. When I placed the 8 inch (45' to scale) figure on the battle mat, they immediately took a very polite and cautious attitude.Just recently, at 8-9th levels, these PCs got to spy on a fiendish elder treant. I used another action figure of similar scale. The looks on the Players' faces, and the comments around the table were excellent. Nothing strikes Players so deeply as seeing a big monster to actual scale with their minis.Also, as someone above said, rolling the dice in the open for any and all to see really pushes home the seriousness of an opponent. When my PCs did a very short hit and run against the fiendish elder treant, they were stunned when I rolled the first attack roll in the open. I rolled a 3. There was a sigh of relief from the target of the attack until I said, "He hits AC 27."Nothing says "retreat, NOW" as well as seeing the opponent has a +24 attack bonus. <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=":-)" />Quasqueton</blockquote>