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<blockquote data-quote="Wraith Form" data-source="post: 1937156" data-attributes="member: 10789">I'm of the same mind as you, LizWiz. I get tired of the &quot;monsteroid&quot; BBEGs--where are the good old evil humanoid (emphasis on human) bad guys?&nbsp;I pulled out from my collection every Dungeon magazine that's been published from the release of D&amp;D 3.0 to present, and skimmed them. There are hardly any low-level--i.e. 1st or 2nd level--adventures {I could end the sentence here, but that's not my point....} that don't feature some silly &quot;Goblin with the Flannel-Wearer template&quot; or &quot;Half-Dragon Kobold Pacifist Monk of the God of War&quot; as it's boss. Bleh.&nbsp;Give me Goldfinger or Doctor No. Give me Elaith Craulnober. Give me Darth Vader, a human under all that armor and angst. Give me Lex Luthor (or even Lionel, Smallville fans). The series Firefly showed us that human opponents can be just as horrible and evil as any &quot;monster&quot;.&nbsp;I challenge you adventure and module writers to lay off the monsteroid bad guys and start including more human(-oid) bad guys..!&nbsp;So, what's left?&nbsp;The Dungeon adventure Deep Freeze in ish #83 was a decent low-level challenge without resorting to too much silliness. It was also a minor hommage to Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.&nbsp;The Freeport adventures are the first (IMHO) successful attempt to bring the Cthulhu mythos into a fantasy world without &quot;silliness&quot;.&nbsp;These are not enough adventures to keep the 1st level party challenged for too long...! Any other suggestions?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wraith Form, post: 1937156, member: 10789"] I'm of the same mind as you, LizWiz. I get tired of the "monsteroid" BBEGs--where are the good old evil humanoid (emphasis on [i]human[/i]) bad guys? I pulled out from my collection every Dungeon magazine that's been published from the release of D&D 3.0 to present, and skimmed them. There are hardly any low-level--i.e. 1st or 2nd level--adventures {I could end the sentence here, but that's not my point....} that don't feature some silly "Goblin with the Flannel-Wearer template" or "Half-Dragon Kobold Pacifist Monk of the God of War" as it's boss. Bleh. Give me Goldfinger or Doctor No. Give me Elaith Craulnober. Give me Darth Vader, a human under all that armor and angst. Give me Lex Luthor (or even Lionel, [i]Smallville[/i] fans). The series [i]Firefly[/i] showed us that human opponents can be just as horrible and evil as any "monster". I challenge you adventure and module writers to lay off the monsteroid bad guys and start including more human(-oid) bad guys..! So, what's left? The Dungeon adventure Deep Freeze in ish #83 was a decent low-level challenge without resorting to too much silliness. It was also a minor [i]hommage[/i] to Lovecraft's [i]At the Mountains of Madness.[/i] The Freeport adventures are the first (IMHO) successful attempt to bring the Cthulhu mythos into a fantasy world without "silliness". These are not enough adventures to keep the 1st level party challenged for too long...! Any other suggestions? [/QUOTE]

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