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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 3565146" data-attributes="member: 41321">If you want to get a Shadow of the Colossus feel, don't have the colossus take any AoOs.  Rule that he's too slow, or that the PCs are too little from his perspective to take an AoO, or have him simply choose not to take any AoOs (which is always an option, though few people won't take an AoO presented to them).Treat it more like a gigantic encounter trap than a creature.  There are safe zones (if you can find them) where the colossus can't reach, but if a PC ends up outside of a safe zone when the round ends he might be the target of a very powerful hit.  These hits are more like area effects than attacks.  AC does no good, but a good reflex save can get you out of the way, and it affects all PCs in a given area.  Have the colossus be immortal (no hit points) unless he is struck in a certain hard-to-reach area.  For a truly memorable encounter for all PCs, find something for each PC to do in order to get the colossus into a position where his vulnerable spot is reachable.  Perhaps the rogue PC (who probably has the best climbing skills) is the one who has to climb to the top of the thing's head and stab it, but in order to get there the melee PC has to keep stabbing it in the foot hard enough to get it to lean down in pain, then the mage PC has to cast certain spells to keep it from shaking the rogue off.  What each PC has to do must either be easy to figure out or they must have some way of finding out about it beforehand.  Part of the fun of the video game was figuring out exactly what to do, but I can imagine this would be much harder to do in a pen-and-paper scenario, because the DM would have to describe the behaviors and looks of the colossus perfectly in order to get all of the "hints" across without actually giving anything away.</blockquote>

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