Little enemies with big effects

[Henry]

Darkmantles. 3E Darkmantles, not the wimpy 3.5 ones.

My players hate the damned things. And they usually put somethnig else on front of that expletive.

Simple creatures, small damage, mediocre AC and low hit points - but start casting darknesses about , and introducing miss percentages, and my players go ape. They NEVER prepare light spells or daylight spells - no clue why, after as many of these little buggers I've sent on them.

First time I ever introduced darkmantles about four years ago, I almost caused a TPK. now, they just annoy the heck out of them, and cause the players to curse my name until the last one is killed. A simple half-dozen of these things will tick off 6 7th level PC's in my games for a good hour. It tickles me when it happens.

 

[VirgilCaine]

Darkmantles. 3E Darkmantles, not the wimpy 3.5 ones.

My players hate the damned things. And they usually put somethnig else on front of that expletive.

Simple creatures, small damage, mediocre AC and low hit points - but start casting darknesses about , and introducing miss percentages, and my players go ape. They NEVER prepare light spells or daylight spells - no clue why, after as many of these little buggers I've sent on them.

First time I ever introduced darkmantles about four years ago, I almost caused a TPK. now, they just annoy the heck out of them, and cause the players to curse my name until the last one is killed. A simple half-dozen of these things will tick off 6 7th level PC's in my games for a good hour. It tickles me when it happens.

They call doing the same thing over and over again hoping it works insanity.

Have to remember the Imp suggestion trick.

 

[kolikeos]

me (12th level sor) and 6 more players (also 12th level) encounterd a 5th level cleric medusa (CR 11) none survived.

that was the result of low die rolls and lack of common sense.
we were actually looking for a medusa and there were a bunch of stoned victims in the room and none of us though about closing their eyes all the more reason for the DM to laugh at us.
if i would have got a 9 instead of a 4 on my fort save i would have turned HER into stone and she needed to get a 18 on the fort save to resist my flesh to stone.
and what more, there were 2 losers in the group that had blindsight (they played dragons with a level ajastment (sp?) equel to 12) and they did not close their eyes either.