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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Unwise" data-source="post: 6614453" data-attributes="member: 98008">The last two 1st level boss fights I have used were:1) Have you ever seen a care knuckle boxing tent show? It was like that, but the with wooden weapons as well as with fists. The champ knocks out foe after foe and is insulting to the village, saying the he could take on a handful of them at once. The promoter puts down a pretty big sum of money to back up the claim. The locals are all too afraid to face him and the village is losing face to the travelling merchants and folk in town. The PCs step up to take him down. They stepped up with weapons and armor, so the champ got kitted out. To their dismay he put on full plate (he was a dishonoured knight). I just used some stats for a knight (maybe captain) and he was a good encounter. Throw in some cheating if it goes too far the PCs way, throw in some crowd support if it looks too hard. The good thing is it does not matter if they win or lose that much. After the encounter, the ex-knight is jovial and helps set their broken noses, apologising for the insults, but it makes people more interested and they bet more. He and the fight promoter, were interesting NPCs for them to meet and came in useful later.2) Have you ever played the new Bard's Tale game? The comedic one. The PCs had to try and take down a wild horse that was terrorizing the place, it was huge, some say possessed.  I just used a suped up warhorse and gave it a strong knockback effect and a flesh golem style trample. It was great, PCs getting kicked through walls and trampled. The fight ended up on a stone ring on a hill outside town. They finally killed the thing and beheaded it. Unfortunately, all the locals know you should never shed blood in the ancient ring of stones...it awakes something.  It led to the following story being told: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JQpE7n6eUk" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JQpE7n6eUk</a></blockquote>

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