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Message: <blockquote data-quote="webrunner" data-source="post: 5489409" data-attributes="member: 63727">For boss encounters recently I've thought about bosses from video games: shooters, platformers, rpgs... the entire encounter is part of the boss.Some ones I use in different fights:- The monster is actually made up of individually targetable parts that let the players switch targets and play strategically.  In one case, it even counted as three monsters: but they shared one health pool.- The monster has more than one "stage" of elite-level HP.  So the entire battle tactics change on bloodied.- Entire areas of the map become dangerous at various parts.Some examples I did recently:- A mechanical hand which has three initatives per turn. Each finger has an ability - it can use those initiatives on different fingers.  The players could, if they wnated to, disable individual fingers in order to prevent certain attacks.  It also had a "slam" move it did at bloodied and could give up it's actions to grab someone.- Three golems.. one did ranged attacks and had vunerable: melee resistance: ranged/area, one did melee attacks and had vunerable: ranged and resistance: melee, and one did nothing and was resistance: all.  At 1/4 hp, they ddi an attack that hit everyone betweenthem at the time (which after the first time it happened made them VERY consious as to their positions and the monsters) and each one switched 'modes'.  The three golems shared one solo-sized health pool.- A mad scientist with ranged attacks and some good mobility, revealling himself as being a crazed warforged afterwards with claws that let him climb on the wall and pounce on people.  The entire fight's dynamic changed when he become such a ridiculous powerful melee combatant that could move around on the ceiling... he even had a minor action to hit everyone around him.- A kobold pikeman on a griffon, while they were on top of a train engine.  It did swooping attacks, as well as a move that tried to pull the players off with a big chained spear.  The fighter beat the strength check and ended up pulling the griffon down into melee range- it was pretty damn epic.Some other boss encounters I had didn't really count as solos (just 'boss effects' like a charge counter until everyone dies based on the remaining chanting wizards, or a series of 1on1 tournament fights)</blockquote>

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