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<blockquote data-quote="JoeGKushner" data-source="post: 1282091" data-attributes="member: 1129">Do the encounters have to be seriously challenging to the party? At their level, it's easy to customize material and insure that they are challenged but if they're just moving through, perhaps taking it easy on them might be one thing to think of when placing monsters. Or as our local Scrollworks master wrote, &quot;Let me be cool sometimes.&quot;If dragons are out, how about undead? Undead, constructs, and outsiders can usually be found in just about any situation you care to put them into. If you're doing an ancient ruin, perhaps having evidence that the party isn't the first group to be there and that they are finding a druid getting ready to unleash a plague of sorrow upon the land in order to rectify the horrors that man has inflicted on nature recently may be the way to go.Or have the party come across said druid's corpse as that plague of sorrow is some type of powerful demon/devil that when released, turned upon his liberator.One thing that would help is what monster books do you have? How comfortable are you with using templates, levels, and other tricks of customization? Personally I don't have to do a lot of customzing of monsters due to the large number of monster books I have, but it's always nice to be able to break out the Book of Templates or something along those lines and really surprise the players.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JoeGKushner, post: 1282091, member: 1129"] Do the encounters have to be seriously challenging to the party? At their level, it's easy to customize material and insure that they are challenged but if they're just moving through, perhaps taking it easy on them might be one thing to think of when placing monsters. Or as our local Scrollworks master wrote, "Let me be cool sometimes." If dragons are out, how about undead? Undead, constructs, and outsiders can usually be found in just about any situation you care to put them into. If you're doing an ancient ruin, perhaps having evidence that the party isn't the first group to be there and that they are finding a druid getting ready to unleash a plague of sorrow upon the land in order to rectify the horrors that man has inflicted on nature recently may be the way to go. Or have the party come across said druid's corpse as that plague of sorrow is some type of powerful demon/devil that when released, turned upon his liberator. One thing that would help is what monster books do you have? How comfortable are you with using templates, levels, and other tricks of customization? Personally I don't have to do a lot of customzing of monsters due to the large number of monster books I have, but it's always nice to be able to break out the Book of Templates or something along those lines and really surprise the players. [/QUOTE]

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