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<blockquote data-quote="Mordmorgan the Mad" data-source="post: 2034650" data-attributes="member: 27199">BoD: As much fun as a single monstrous centipede might be, I'd suggest cutting the centipede's CR a few and adding in swarm or two of fine centipedes. Better to have the floor covered in the little buggers (and what with the bad lighting, the PCs just might think that soft crunching is loose rubble) and have the larger centipede curled around a statue at the end of the hall. As they realize that the floor is covered in bugs and a very, very large bug is about to eat them, have the swarms rise from the ground and attack.Another idea would be to have the larger centipede be an awakened centipede cleric of Talona. Once the PCs slay the centipede cleric, it might just dissolve into a massive pile of writhing centipedes. (If you want a recurring creature, the Libris Mortis has an interesting template that allows corporeal undead to assume a swarm form, and it's possible that talona would return the creature as an undead creature of some sort, possibly a corpse creature).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mordmorgan the Mad, post: 2034650, member: 27199"] BoD: As much fun as a single monstrous centipede might be, I'd suggest cutting the centipede's CR a few and adding in swarm or two of fine centipedes. Better to have the floor covered in the little buggers (and what with the bad lighting, the PCs just might think that soft crunching is loose rubble) and have the larger centipede curled around a statue at the end of the hall. As they realize that the floor is covered in bugs and a very, very large bug is about to eat them, have the swarms rise from the ground and attack. Another idea would be to have the larger centipede be an awakened centipede cleric of Talona. Once the PCs slay the centipede cleric, it might just dissolve into a massive pile of writhing centipedes. (If you want a recurring creature, the Libris Mortis has an interesting template that allows corporeal undead to assume a swarm form, and it's possible that talona would return the creature as an undead creature of some sort, possibly a corpse creature). [/QUOTE]

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