Challenging my high-lvl group (NPCs and monsters; my players shouldn't read this!)

[Spatzimaus]

Glad you like it. What would be cool is if someone culled this thread and pulled out all the crunchy bits. That would be an awesome thread.

This thread IS pure crunchy bits. That's why I love it so much. Every time I need ideas, I browse through all the sheer ratbastardliness to find what I need. Take Akin's Throat, for example; we all brainstormed on that for pages and pages, so when I needed NPCs to flesh out an evil city, I just started, err, "being inspired by" the ideas here.

While I WOULD like to hear what the plan is for Agar, I don't think we're really prepared for it since to us, the PCs still haven't finished the White Kingdom yet. Besides, half the fun is reading all of the "I can't believe he did that" posts from the players.

 

[Waylander the Slayer]

please inspire me...err

PKitty

I was wondering of you had the stats etc. for some of the older encounters from your campaign. I am particularly interested in the Al'quith? corrupted version and all those crazed out 2 headed gnolls. I would consider it an early xmas present and will bake some grandmas soft baked choc chip cookies for you!! ....

 

[Ruined]

Hi PirateCat. Wondering if you'd care to post the stats on the Brain Golem? I've got some info from when somebody posted one on EN World a year ago. Wondering if its the same critter and how advanced it is.

 

[Piratecat]

Waylander, I'll try to track those down.

Ruined, I never statted it out. I came up with it on the spot as stage dressing, so by then I knew they weren't planning to eradicate everything in sight. I remembered a 2e brain golem and just went with that.

If they had tried to attack it, I would have faked the stats.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Attacks: Bite +27 melee
Damage: Bite 3d8+19

If it is a scorpion, why has it got a bite? what happened to its claw and sting attacks?

Normally a colossal scorpion would have

Claw +34 melee (2d8+12)
2 claws +34 melee (2d8+12) and sting +29 melee (2d8+6 plus poison)

Cheers

 

[Waylander the Slayer]

Brain Golem...

The brain golem is from the Illithiad- a great book and still usesful IMHO - i have a 3e conversion of it and i will post it on here in the next week or so (insane work weeks right now) - i am working on converting and adding stuff (especially all the cool psionic toys in the illithiad) as well if anyone is interested. Hmmm illithid sensory candy anyone?


Thanks for looking PC

 

[Seule]

Brain Golems are in the Fiend Folio, as well as a lot of other icky Illithiddy stuff.

--Seule

 

[Piratecat]

Well, see? Whaddaya know?

I never statted out the elder brain, either. I assumed lvl 25 psion with extra special effects. It worked perfectly.

 

[BSF]

Well, see? Whaddaya know?

I never statted out the elder brain, either. I assumed lvl 25 psion with extra special effects. It worked perfectly.

Piratecat, I think it is great that you 'fess up to making things up. I sometimes wonder if these threads intimidate some DM's because they start thinking they have to detail out monsters _all_ the time.

It's good to stat out the things you know your PC's will fight. But, there is nothing wrong with winging it at times as well.

 

[Henry]

OK, I just couldn't bring myself to mention this in the Defenders Story Hour Thread, but...

...Didn't Nolin AND Telay both go to study magic at Hagiok's academy?

And Just HOW accomplished is she? Could she be, say... a 21st level Wizard Vampire with the ability to jump into Ghoulish Bodies?

"Ambassador Soder" had Mridsgate cleaned and Perfumed... which sounds like it fits a Sensate to a "T".

The DoD's assumed that the puppeteer was

(A) Male and
(B) a Ghoul.

Is EITHER truthfully the case?