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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Unwise" data-source="post: 5586910" data-attributes="member: 98008">I re-use monsters all the time. The often go from Elite-Standard-Minion all the way to Swarm. My players have gained enough levels that kobolds are no longer much of a threat, even as minions they are much low level than them. When they decided to pick on a kobold clan, I simply made the clan into a few swarms instead. Two swarms acted as tanks (they were the clans Dragonshields). Two swarms were the hunters, acting as skirmishers/artillery. One swarm was elite and was the combination of the clans warlords, shamans and magicians. It stayed back using leader style effects. This turned what would have been an uninteresting cakewalk through minions that could not hit them, into a challenging battle. They still felt uber, as I described every sweep of their greatswords chopping through 3 or 4 kobolds, sweeping them aside. As a GM though, you need to keep in mind the motivations of anyone that is a minion and especially a swarm to the PCs. Sure a bunch of kobolds can join together an attack as a swarm, giving them a decent chance against the PCs. Remember though that they are individuals, so why the heck would they? Heaps of them are going to get slaughtered.  Why would that minion guard try to stop the heroes? Is he a bad judge of uberness? Is he that terrified of this master? A minion by default has no more desire to fight the PCs than the PCs have to fight a solo monster 8 levels higher than them.</blockquote>

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