King_Stannis
Explorer
trolls, glorious trolls!
To Dm's: What is your favorite monster/bad guy to throw at the oarty?
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jmucchiello
Hero
You enter a clearing. A man at a table in wizard's garb spots you and immediately teleports away. There are kobolds around. Some standing at the table are upset. A sign on the table says "Rods of Wonder: 5 cp". Looking carefully you notice that most of the kobolds do have rather short rods in their hands. The kobold nearest you points the rod at (random party member) and says (In common) "Let 'er rip".
"Can anyone beat a 22 Initiative?"
"Can anyone beat a 22 Initiative?"
Leopold
NKL4LYFE
Trolls and Aboleth...the combination of a creature than can tear a PC apart with their claws and stilll come back for more strikes fear into their hearts, just give them levels in monk and the half-fiend template and your solid for all levels.
The aboleth for the sheer uber intellegence and fear factor, screw with one and you won't live to see the dawn. Plus it's the alien affect of what they are and what they can do...
The aboleth for the sheer uber intellegence and fear factor, screw with one and you won't live to see the dawn. Plus it's the alien affect of what they are and what they can do...
Jürgen Hubert
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Humans. No doubt about it.
When the characters see a dragon, they will at least have some rough idea about what it can do. On the other hand, a human opponent could do pretty much anything.
And I just love see my players guessing...
When the characters see a dragon, they will at least have some rough idea about what it can do. On the other hand, a human opponent could do pretty much anything.
And I just love see my players guessing...
Theovis said:
I love this encounter! If only I wasn't so afraid of putting a bunch of rods of wonder in my players' hands.
I hope you mean afraid for the PCs, not their enemies.
In Corlon's campaign, Curran's fighter had a Rod of Wonder. he fired it off like 10 times before we smashed it for his own good. EVERY TIME he used the rod he shrunk to 1/6th his height. This could happen 3 times an encounter! Half the session we had an inch high fighter flying around on a gryphon!
i had a Dm that loved undead. Not that they are cool or anything- but it's just that he wanted to curb our damage- so he templated everything up with undead- so they are immune to crit and 1/2 damage on pierce and slash weapons.
I personally like Beasts (magical or not). They are savage and easy to DM. But somehow the players never, EVER realise that they are savage beasts just looking for food- and if they throw a piece of meat and run away- they can avoid a bloody fight... but that's just me. I guess they love to beat and kill the beasts too- so that may be a motive for staying and fighting...
I personally like Beasts (magical or not). They are savage and easy to DM. But somehow the players never, EVER realise that they are savage beasts just looking for food- and if they throw a piece of meat and run away- they can avoid a bloody fight... but that's just me. I guess they love to beat and kill the beasts too- so that may be a motive for staying and fighting...
Maerdwyn
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This is odd, but I don't even know the right name for the omnster I like to throw at the party the most.
Nor does the monster evn attack the party most times I throw it at them - it/they are almost scenery, but they always seem to freak the players out.
See I have a number (maybe a dozen) of these tiny little miniatures that look like spiders with stubby humanoid torsos and oversized mouths filed with pointy teeth. They each have two stubby arms, and a few hold daggers - others just have claws.
Anyway, several time over the course of the campaign, the party has killed a particular npc, or opened a sealed timb, only to have these guys suddenly appear, swarm over the body and devour it like the scarab beetles from The Mummy, and then crawl off to the corners, where they either phase through the walls or otherwise diappear. The only time they've attacked the party was when they tried to prevent them from eating a corpse.
Dragons cause raw terror, but these corpse eaters evoke feelings of queasiness in my players, and that makes these guys my favorites.
Nor does the monster evn attack the party most times I throw it at them - it/they are almost scenery, but they always seem to freak the players out.
See I have a number (maybe a dozen) of these tiny little miniatures that look like spiders with stubby humanoid torsos and oversized mouths filed with pointy teeth. They each have two stubby arms, and a few hold daggers - others just have claws.
Anyway, several time over the course of the campaign, the party has killed a particular npc, or opened a sealed timb, only to have these guys suddenly appear, swarm over the body and devour it like the scarab beetles from The Mummy, and then crawl off to the corners, where they either phase through the walls or otherwise diappear. The only time they've attacked the party was when they tried to prevent them from eating a corpse.
Dragons cause raw terror, but these corpse eaters evoke feelings of queasiness in my players, and that makes these guys my favorites.
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