What mini-bosses do you love sending at the players?

[Nifft]

I like casters. Problem with barbarians is you have to do two sets of stats.

Casters who use buffs are so much worse.

Barbarians have "merely" two sets of stats!

-- N

 

[Shade]

Other. I prefer to advance my monsters by Hit Dice or templates to create my bosses. I use the class levels on the fodder.

 

[JohnnFour]

I had great results with a band of wight bards.

Were they grateful?

 

[JohnnFour]

What about an intelligent unholy weapon that buffs its user? That way, evil minions can pick it up mid-combat when the current owner dies, but the weapon is a tad bit uncomfortable for good aligned PCs to wield.

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

What about an intelligent unholy weapon that buffs its user? That way, evil minions can pick it up mid-combat when the current owner dies, but the weapon is a tad bit uncomfortable for good aligned PCs to wield.

I had a BBEG like this once. The guy holding the sword was a nobody who inherited the sword from it's previous owner. The sword itself was the true villain of that portion of the campaign.

To answer the question above, I vary it quite a bit just to keep the PCs on their toes and to try out different tricks.

 

[Ilium]

I like sorcerers because they're easy to customize and "theme", but in play they're easy to run.

I haven't use warlocks yet, but I suppose they'd be even better on both counts.

 

[Jolly Giant]

Whenever my players encounter a cute little halfling woman, they get nervous. The more innocent she seems, the more they fear her. If she's all rosy-cheeked, smiling and friendly, they'll soon be convinced she's just about to slaughter them!

Class-wise, I like bosses (big or mini) with lots of skill points, so I often use either rogues or wizards (or even arcane tricksters).

 

[JRRNeiklot]

Sorcerors. Nothing pisses a wizard off like getting fireballed and not getting a spellbook off the dead caster.

 

[Dragonbait]

My bosses are often large monsters, as is the nature of my setting. I think I use Clerics + all the undead they can control as a mini-boss more than other classes.

 

[Simm]

Fihgters, usually humanoid and then monkeyed for a single combat trick. Trip, sunder, AC, whatever, but on terrain that gives them the advantage. Bull rusher on narrow ledges was my favorite. If I'm feeling really sadistic I send in two of them at once.