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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3472789" data-attributes="member: 4937">Many of us would consider wraithstrike to be obviosly broken, and thus not really worth mentioning.&nbsp; I would be like advising DMs to dip into ill-thought out 3rd party splatbooks to find uber-combos.&nbsp; I would certainly work, but its rather outside the spirit of the request.Of courious many could quite rightfully make the same objection to tanglefoot bags, which in general I would not encourage one to allow as written'Tucker's kobolds' have always struck me as much like the goblins in Skip's Axe of the Dwarvish Lords.&nbsp; They achieve their meaness not so much by being clever as 'cheating' - special rules that allow NPCs to act according to different mechanics than exist for the pc's and/or special equipment not available to the PC's (and in quanities that simply can't be explained by the text).&nbsp; They get access to the DMs full meta-information about the PC's and PC's actions and always perfectly adjust thier responce, the whole tribe appears to know the location of the PC's at all times, and kobolds can appear where they are most needed instantly, and so forth.&nbsp; I can't say that all of that was going on, but from the description it certainly sounds like a good chunk of it because 12th level characters would otherwise make mince meat of the silliness described.&nbsp; Magic Missile? Sleep? Web? Protection from Normal Missiles? Cloudkill?&nbsp; Who prepares fireball when going underground anyway?I've written about that before too.&nbsp; It seems like there is a thread involving a noble salamander around here somewhere.&nbsp; But running a monster well is almost a case by case basis.&nbsp; If someone was particularly interested in a particular monster, I'd be willing to come up with ideas.I can sorta sympathize with your complaint, in that while I employ these tricks, I tend to eyeball what I consider the effective CR/EL and award experience according to the actual challenge and not merely what the book says it should be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 3472789, member: 4937"] Many of us would consider wraithstrike to be obviosly broken, and thus not really worth mentioning. I would be like advising DMs to dip into ill-thought out 3rd party splatbooks to find uber-combos. I would certainly work, but its rather outside the spirit of the request. Of courious many could quite rightfully make the same objection to tanglefoot bags, which in general I would not encourage one to allow as written 'Tucker's kobolds' have always struck me as much like the goblins in Skip's Axe of the Dwarvish Lords. They achieve their meaness not so much by being clever as 'cheating' - special rules that allow NPCs to act according to different mechanics than exist for the pc's and/or special equipment not available to the PC's (and in quanities that simply can't be explained by the text). They get access to the DMs full meta-information about the PC's and PC's actions and always perfectly adjust thier responce, the whole tribe appears to know the location of the PC's at all times, and kobolds can appear where they are most needed instantly, and so forth. I can't say that all of that was going on, but from the description it certainly sounds like a good chunk of it because 12th level characters would otherwise make mince meat of the silliness described. Magic Missile? Sleep? Web? Protection from Normal Missiles? Cloudkill? Who prepares fireball when going underground anyway? I've written about that before too. It seems like there is a thread involving a noble salamander around here somewhere. But running a monster well is almost a case by case basis. If someone was particularly interested in a particular monster, I'd be willing to come up with ideas. I can sorta sympathize with your complaint, in that while I employ these tricks, I tend to eyeball what I consider the effective CR/EL and award experience according to the actual challenge and not merely what the book says it should be. [/QUOTE]

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