I used an aboleth and its skum servitors (including a non-standard Giant skum-- which is just fun to say) to very good effect at the start of our current 3.5 campaign. The first "dungeon" was an open-air ruin in the middle of the jungle, and all the structures faced in towards a deep, murky central pool. The pool not only provided the aboleth with cover, but also allowed it to strike any point it wanted in the ruins. Oodles of fun-- even once the party figured out how to activate the ruin's eldritch machine and launch the pool, monster and all, into the cloud layer.
Have you seen an Aboleth in game?
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OchreJelly
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Characters have not, however, one of the players thought he saw one. It turned out to be some old jello in my fridge.
Lonely Tylenol
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"Run, run, run faster than the rest of the party..."
HelloChristian
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If you want to read an example of an entire campaign based upon the machinations of an Aboleth, get hold of TSR's 2e campaign box set "The Night Below." It's pretty epic, although players had mixed reactions to it. It really is an impressive product.
ExploderWizard
Hero
Yup. The first time as a player adventuring in Dwellers of the Forbidden City back in 83,(grabs cane) the module where they originally appeared.
We were wounded and decided that the "empty" cave by the river was a good place to rest. The thing had quietly made slaves out of 2 party members which it used to clobber the rest of us.
We were wounded and decided that the "empty" cave by the river was a good place to rest. The thing had quietly made slaves out of 2 party members which it used to clobber the rest of us.
The_Warlock
Explorer
I had crafted an "Enemy Party" that was created by the campaign's nemisis culture to engage, delay, destroy or infect the party at any opportunity. Each member was tailored to counter one of the party members based on the nemisis culture's investigation into their stengths and weakness.
The opponent for the party's mage was Iol, a mutated, flying Split Minded, Psychic Theurge (take the Mystic Theurge prestige class and insert Psion instead of Cleric) Aboleth, who focused on energy absorption, whitefire and concussion attacks, and inflicting aboleth tentacle transformation while nowhere near a water source.
The party as a whole generally screamed and scattered whenever he showed up - right until they caught him unaware and dropped a 10' x 10' x 10' cube of granite on him.
Boy, did that Aboleth squeal.
The opponent for the party's mage was Iol, a mutated, flying Split Minded, Psychic Theurge (take the Mystic Theurge prestige class and insert Psion instead of Cleric) Aboleth, who focused on energy absorption, whitefire and concussion attacks, and inflicting aboleth tentacle transformation while nowhere near a water source.
The party as a whole generally screamed and scattered whenever he showed up - right until they caught him unaware and dropped a 10' x 10' x 10' cube of granite on him.
Boy, did that Aboleth squeal.
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