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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mafisto" data-source="post: 2352168" data-attributes="member: 15183">Consider your options as whole categories - what would (or could) exist in a long dead city?UndeadConstructsSquattersScavengersUndead don't work for you, and that's cool.  Honestly, populating every forgotten ruin with undead gets monotonous.Constructs could be a lot of fun - at 7th level, a simple city guardian like a stone golem could provide a great challenge. And since these are elves, why not make an unorthodox, more elegant version of a stone golem? Perhaps one in the shape of giant spider - quiet, quick and oh so deadly. I sure as hell wouldn't want something like that stalking me. You can tinker with DR and attacks to make it more level-appropriate.Squatters would be easy. What self respecting goblin or kobold wouldn't love an abandoned city to live in? An elaborate series of traps, confusing dead-ends, maybe a city above the city where the goblins travel from rooftop to rooftop via ropes and webbing. Ambushes galore!Scavengers could be anything from oozes, jellies, puddings to giant spiders and rats. The city could have a creepy disintegrating feel to it, with vast webs blocking alleys and the skeletons of devoured animals littering the streets.HTH.</blockquote>