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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warrior Poet" data-source="post: 1737813" data-attributes="member: 1057">Great thread.Recently in my campaign I've been trying to fit in more of the lesser known/utilized monsters, and trying to shy away from the more common ones (though the classic undead never go out of style as far as I'm concerned.  I suspect the party would insist that level drain does go out of style, but . . . ).So . . .  Such a great name!DM: "Up ahead stands a group of skum!"Players:  "You bet they are." I've finally worked them into my current campaign.  Great alien-herpetological sinister genius villains!  Nasty in a fight (though the party seems to be doing well).  My only complaint is I wish I were smart enough to provide "genius level" play to illustrate Yuan-Ti intelligence.  I try and plan tactics, escape routes, etc., but my players are all really smart, too (smarter than I am, frankly), and, well, so far, the genius snake men haven't really maintained the upper hand (though it's been 50/50 sometimes). An excellent dungeon master I know, who's running the game I play in.  Our party ran into a bunch of the cute little guys in a forest, seemed harmless enough, then they got wind of the guy in the chain shirt, and suddenly the air smelled like ozone, and we never knew what hit us. One of those great "They're such cute little guys," moments. It was nice work.  Try an encounter with 20 or so sometime: they're not the toughest creatures, but catching a party off guard, they can really get in a couple of good shots. Same DM, same campaign, much earlier on, gave our fighter a run for his money with a few of these once. Again, nice job. Some of the best DM work I've ever seen turns relatively (relatively) low level threats into serious eyeing-your-character-sheet-nervously challenges.Some of my nominations would include Perytons (Classic D&D; are these even in D&D anymore?), Catoblepas (Catoblepi?), alot of the various elemental-based types (Xorn, et al.), Locathah, Needlefolk, Otyugh and kin (plural???), most dinosaurs, and I'll probably think of ten others after I post this.Thanks for this thread!  It's great.Warrior Poet</blockquote>

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