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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5210722" data-attributes="member: 82106">Hmmm, interesting. The minion version works OK. Another option would be to make it a full level 1 lurker with a high limited damage expression (3d8+3) damage. With a 13 CON it has 25 hit points. Average damage on a hit will be 12. On a crit it will do 27 damage, enough to kill some level 1 PCs outright. With 5 of these guys dropping on a party by surprise it should yield a fairly nasty little scenario. I'd even be tempted to give them a minor bite attack just so they're able to do something about finishing off a victim they get lucky with, maybe just say 1d4+3 damage. Honestly though I think mechanically the minion concept is OK, once the things drop on the party there's no a whole lot of point to dragging it out, the damage is done and its all anticlimax from there.The trap format would work OK as well. I'm not sure if its better than the monster format or not. The advantages would be presenting more options for circumventing and detecting them, and a more standard way to deal with XP for them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5210722, member: 82106"] Hmmm, interesting. The minion version works OK. Another option would be to make it a full level 1 lurker with a high limited damage expression (3d8+3) damage. With a 13 CON it has 25 hit points. Average damage on a hit will be 12. On a crit it will do 27 damage, enough to kill some level 1 PCs outright. With 5 of these guys dropping on a party by surprise it should yield a fairly nasty little scenario. I'd even be tempted to give them a minor bite attack just so they're able to do something about finishing off a victim they get lucky with, maybe just say 1d4+3 damage. Honestly though I think mechanically the minion concept is OK, once the things drop on the party there's no a whole lot of point to dragging it out, the damage is done and its all anticlimax from there. The trap format would work OK as well. I'm not sure if its better than the monster format or not. The advantages would be presenting more options for circumventing and detecting them, and a more standard way to deal with XP for them. [/QUOTE]

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