Daggerheart Kaiju Battles?

[doctorbadwolf]

So, I’ve always loved big solo boss battles with special mechanics and very interactive environments, like a Zelda game boss or (I know) the best MMO boss fights.

In 5e this requires some design work but is doable, but I’m curious about Daggerheart. I only have the SRD stuff, but isn’t there a Kaiju Campaign Frame in the core book? How is it? What mechanics does it add or change?

How would the folks who’ve played a lot of DH run some “Shadow of The Collosus” style boss battles, where the boss is basically hazardous terrain that is trying to eat/crush/stab/burn you?

 

[aramis erak]

There is... it reads well.

It divides each kaiju into multiple monster templates. It adds rules for moving between areas – fairly light ones, at that. There are several example kaiju... 4. Two of which appear to be mixed tech and critter.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

There is... it reads well.

It divides each kaiju into multiple monster templates. It adds rules for moving between areas – fairly light ones, at that. There are several example kaiju... 4. Two of which appear to be mixed tech and critter.

Awesome. Can’t wait to get my hands on that.

All I want from Kaiju is Shadow of The Collosus meets Breath of The Wild.

Edit; Oh and for things like dragons to be treated like Kaiju.

 

[aramis erak]

Awesome. Can’t wait to get my hands on that.

All I want from Kaiju is Shadow of The Collosus meets Breath of The Wild.

Edit; Oh and for things like dragons to be treated like Kaiju.

I don't like dragons as kaiju, myself, but they'd be doable. My preferred dragons are Pterodraconis sapiens, from Castle Falkenstein, second choice being the Earthsea ones. But my players seem to prefer The Hobbit's Smaug.

And I'll note that Earthsea's dragons are frightfully dangerous... everything they say is an incantation.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I don't like dragons as kaiju, myself, but they'd be doable. My preferred dragons are Pterodraconis sapiens, from Castle Falkenstein, second choice being the Earthsea ones. But my players seem to prefer The Hobbit's Smaug.

And I'll note that Earthsea's dragons are frightfully dangerous... everything they say is an incantation.

I dig that. Love Earthsea.

To me though, the best dragons come in two categories:

Dragons you can befriend and ride

And

Dragons so massive you cannot stand on the ground swinging a sword at them, you have to strategize, and take big risks, and take them down by knowing their weakness and exploiting it, and you probably need to work just as hard to mitigate the harm they do as well because you can’t just contain them because they’re bigger than a small castle.

Now when I say dragons as kaiju, one thing I don’t mean is the terrasque. I mean monsters as big as Godzilla but they’re still dragons, they’re smart and magical and maybe even divine or fey or some other sort of “from elsewhere” type being. The evil ones are evil in a way humans can’t be, because they’re ancient and beyond mortal understanding. When they’re Good they are on the level of Aslan or another benevolent god. When they are tied to nature they are super natural in the sense of being the most natural and understand nature with a depth that mortals simply cannot reckon with.

D&D dragons To me are vastly too regular to be the second type and much too powerful and arrogant to be the first, so I rarely use them as written.