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Message: <blockquote data-quote="demiurge1138" data-source="post: 2403252" data-attributes="member: 7451">The most fun I've ever had with a monster was with a splinterwaif (MMIII). The party's two rogues had snuck onto a hobgoblin slaver ship with the intention of stowing away. Earlier that session, they had tried to rob a wealthy woman, only to have the noisy distraction of a terrified child running from "the Crazy Thorn Man", a horrible monster that catches children in its claws, turns them into bushes, and eats them.So what do they find on that ship, acting as a guard-beast for the captain? That's right. A crazy thorn man. When the two rogues couldn't punch through its natural armor and damage reduction, they fled through the narrow corridors of the ship, the cackling, drooling menace at their heels. Things didn't get any better when dock guards, summonned to check out the chaos on the ship, all were horribly killed by splinters shot from the thing's tongue.Eventually, the party barbarian decided to kill it and went below decks. Alone. Between the thorn man's camouflage and vicious attacks, the fight was long and brutal, with rounds fought through a mattress, for example, and the barbarian using his pet pig to trick the thorn man into revealing itself. By the end of it, the splinterwaif died as the barbarian, dropping out of rage, hit -3 hit points. The tensest encounter I've ever run.I also have a fondness for vrocks, simply because they have so many options, and have thrown them at just about every party that gets to an appropriate level. I also had the unfortunate experience of fighting a vrock at level four, thanks to a DM who did not play nicely with the CR system. The only way we survived was because he didn't know that ray of enfeeblement does not stack with itself.Demiurge out.</blockquote>

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