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<blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 5493037" data-attributes="member: 326"><p>Howdy webrunner! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Lol! True. You would need to put the fear into the party in an earlier encounter where the slain minions become standard monsters.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps instead of killing them, if you perform an exorcism on them (2 simultaneously successful High DC religion checks) you can cure them. They only morph into demons if slain by non-evil aligned characters (hows that?).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>My suggestion would be to treat two-adjoined Elites as worth two elites rather than a solo monster (for the purposes of EXP).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thats a silver streak of genius! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I've been working on a Mine Cart fight inspired by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom for my new book (the Vampire Bestiary) which has an entry on the Thuggee.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>About a year ago, I went off on a rant on the Bioware forums about how the monsters in Dragon Age were pants and that the encounters within the various 'dungeon' levels of the game were badly staged. Throughout the course of that thread I outlined a number of monster ideas and how to build dungeons around them. I'd actually really like to flesh those ideas out with 4th Edition sometime. The first was this Hurlock (ie. Goblin) based Dungeon whose leaders were ritually scarred by being dipped in molten (living) metal smelted from broken golems.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Ah, now I see. Thanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Upper_Krust, post: 5493037, member: 326"] Howdy webrunner! :) Lol! True. You would need to put the fear into the party in an earlier encounter where the slain minions become standard monsters. Perhaps instead of killing them, if you perform an exorcism on them (2 simultaneously successful High DC religion checks) you can cure them. They only morph into demons if slain by non-evil aligned characters (hows that?). My suggestion would be to treat two-adjoined Elites as worth two elites rather than a solo monster (for the purposes of EXP). Thats a silver streak of genius! ;) I've been working on a Mine Cart fight inspired by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom for my new book (the Vampire Bestiary) which has an entry on the Thuggee. About a year ago, I went off on a rant on the Bioware forums about how the monsters in Dragon Age were pants and that the encounters within the various 'dungeon' levels of the game were badly staged. Throughout the course of that thread I outlined a number of monster ideas and how to build dungeons around them. I'd actually really like to flesh those ideas out with 4th Edition sometime. The first was this Hurlock (ie. Goblin) based Dungeon whose leaders were ritually scarred by being dipped in molten (living) metal smelted from broken golems. Ah, now I see. Thanks. [/QUOTE]
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