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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8652728" data-attributes="member: 6801845">While I don't do nova fights often, I do sometimes let the players know a nova fight is coming (with in-world justifications).&nbsp; The trick for me is to have staged encounters, frequently with multiple &quot;bosses&quot;.&nbsp; Throw in the usual advice of switching up the goals of the fight and so on.When it comes to boss monsters, there's the idea of transformation at different stages to make the fight interesting.&nbsp; It can be anything from going to a frenzied rage at bloodied to completely transforming. In one case for the latter, I had a fight with a mad mage and their minions.&nbsp; Pretty typical stuff, including some legendary actions and lair actions for the mage.&nbsp; When they killed the mage there was a roar of victory as the mage basically exploded and a demon emerged in it's place.&nbsp; Turns out the mage had been containing the demon, which is why they were insane.&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f608.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":devilish:" title="Devil&nbsp; &nbsp; :devilish:"&nbsp; data-smilie="29"data-shortname=":devilish:" /> So personally I just crank the dial up to 11, throw multiple waves, have boss monsters transform or change so that they use different tactics mid fight.&nbsp; Not something I do on a regular basis, but fun now and then.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8652728, member: 6801845"] While I don't do nova fights often, I do sometimes let the players know a nova fight is coming (with in-world justifications). The trick for me is to have staged encounters, frequently with multiple "bosses". Throw in the usual advice of switching up the goals of the fight and so on. When it comes to boss monsters, there's the idea of transformation at different stages to make the fight interesting. It can be anything from going to a frenzied rage at bloodied to completely transforming. In one case for the latter, I had a fight with a mad mage and their minions. Pretty typical stuff, including some legendary actions and lair actions for the mage. When they killed the mage there was a roar of victory as the mage basically exploded and a demon emerged in it's place. Turns out the mage had been containing the demon, which is why they were insane. :devilish: So personally I just crank the dial up to 11, throw multiple waves, have boss monsters transform or change so that they use different tactics mid fight. Not something I do on a regular basis, but fun now and then. [/QUOTE]

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