Wilderness encounter for 15th-level PCs

[RichGreen]

Hi,

I'm looking for an entertaining monster encounter for a 15th-level PC party, to take place somewhere in the wilder parts of the Yeomanry in the World of Greyhawk, near the Hellfurnaces. The terrain can be plains, hills or mountains.

The party consists of:
Human Dragon Disciple 3/Sorceror 12
Halfling Rogue 13/Duelist 2
Human Monk 15
Human Monk 16
Half-Orc Barbarian 14/Ranger 1
Half-Elf Cleric of Ehlonna 15

In addition to the MM, I have MM II, MM III, Fiend Folio, Monsters of Faerun, Creatures of Freeport, Creature Collection 1 & 2, and the Monsternomicon.

Any suggestions?

Cheers


Richard

 

[Emperor Valerian]

Try the Hullathoin in the Fiend Folio. You can have packs of vampire spawn be the leading wave, then when they go looking for the creature, it explodes out of the ground from under their feet! Its quite nasty too... creates fiendish insect swarms that suck away people's Con, strips away their charisma, has boils that explode, spraying people with acid... all and all, a lovely creature to spring.

 

[RichGreen]

Try the Hullathoin in the Fiend Folio. You can have packs of vampire spawn be the leading wave, then when they go looking for the creature, it explodes out of the ground from under their feet! Its quite nasty too... creates fiendish insect swarms that suck away people's Con, strips away their charisma, has boils that explode, spraying people with acid... all and all, a lovely creature to spring.

Thanks for the suggestion -- it's a very cool monster. So cool in fact, it's in the adventure from Dungeon I'm running before this one!

Cheers


Richard

 

[Victim]

Your party doesn't windwalk? Weird.

 

[domino]

Well, an Adult Red Dragon could be interesting.

 

[Nifft]

Some Githyanik and Red Dragon, who appear to be doing scout-for-invasion type stuff. They run away if seen. This is foreshadowing for the high-level Incursion campaign.

Some Aberrations doing eat-the-village type stuff. They run away if challenged. This is foreshadowing for something from Lords of Maddness.

Five old Chromatic dragons (one of each color), flying as quickly as they can due West. They ignore the PCs. They are obviously in a hurry. If you want the PCs to have something to do, let there be a stampeed or panic in a village under their fearsome flight path. This is foreshadowing for something cool involving dragons.

-- N

 

[Romnipotent]

Omnimental
an advanced tendriculous, hiding as a mountain.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Piratecat did a cool thing in his game once - a black dragon mind-switched himself with a pet dog so he could spy on some folks in a city. The party encountered a Black Dragon bounding about the plains, digging up holes all over the place and putting people into severe danger just because he wanted to play.

I think at that level, you need to do something off-kilter to make a wilderness encounter really stand out and be fun (and even plausible). The PC's would (and should) normally outclass anything they would ordinarily run into.

 

[domino]

You could trim down a Pit Fiend, and give him an enchantment on his wings to act like a cloak of elvenkind, for the shadowy effect (because they sometimes fold their wings like a cloak) and a handful of wizard or sorceror levels.

 

[Sado]

Piratecat did a cool thing in his game once - a black dragon mind-switched himself with a pet dog so he could spy on some folks in a city. The party encountered a Black Dragon bounding about the plains, digging up holes all over the place and putting people into severe danger just because he wanted to play.

That's just adorable .