Your best Monster

[was]

never seen a creature instill more fear in a tank then the rust monster

 

[wlmartin]

never seen a creature instill more fear in a tank then the rust monster

I was going to run a Rust Monster adventure and didnt not because I didnt want the party to fear or hate me, but because the story became broken and i ditched it in favor of something else.

I think that the one thing missing from 4e is the ability to impose stat penalties. We played a recent session and my DM gave us a magical green rock formation and asked us what to do... all the PCs starting eating the rock and getting +1 to INT modifier, +1 to WIS modifier... my Minotaur Barbarian refused to act so recklessly but with the obvious gains his party received he went for it and totally randomly got.... -1 STR modifier!!! ffs!

However it made it feel a lot more of a penalty since it effectivly cut my To Hit and Damage down by 1!

There were monsters (Shadows I think and others) that imposed negative levels... those were lots of fun and it made you really fear monsters.


I think they need a completely new idea for a monster book. Feared monsters.

Forget the monsters that can hit you and make you bleed... we want to see the ones that make the PLAYERS not the PCs run and hide.

Rust Monster is a good one, there have to be others and if not someone needs to build them.

Ones that create a bane for every PC type (Divine, Arcane, Melee, Ranged)

 

[Saagael]

never seen a creature instill more fear in a tank then the rust monster

I DMed a group where the party's paladin was, shall we say, aggressively misinterpreting the rules in his favor, to the point where I couldn't get close to killing him with a normal encounter, and any tougher and the rest of the group was toast.

Two rust monster swarms, an owlbear, and a beholder later the paladin is the only one dead, and the rest of the group is pretty healthy.

TL;DR: Classic monsters really are the best.

 

[SnowleopardVK]

I think they need a completely new idea for a monster book. Feared monsters.

Nice idea.

A new topic at the very least... *idea*

Heehee, I'm off to go make a topic.

 

[d2OKC]

never seen a creature instill more fear in a tank then the rust monster

I ran my players through a dungeon that had a single rust monster wandering around in it. It would occasionally waddle its way through a battle they were in, and it scared them silly every time, but it never aggresively tried to get involved in the fighting. One time the wizard was pushed into it, which was basically the luckiest thing that could have happened to them. It was fun.

My personal choice is the Hezrou. It's kind of become our signature monster in our campaign, so I like to save it for special occasions.

 

[Jack99]

OK

There are some Monsters we just love... some we hate an some we love to hate or hate to love.

There are some that stick with us and some that we remember for a significant reason (ie Your 29th level dies 1xp away from 30th and he is beyond raising - this monster killed him)

I know that this poll will result in "My monster isnt on there" and I have chosen only some that ring a bell with me and hopefuly others.... oh and because I cant make the poll the size of the MM's combined!

Hmm, no vote function on Taptalk, but I have a special place in my heart for ghouls, trolls, mindflayers and most of all dragons

 

[Knowledge Checks]

Succubus wasn't on the list so I voted Troll. I like the monsters that can play games with the characters, and if they need to resort to violence (Succubus controlling Trolls, for example).

 

[SoulsFury]

I voted for tarrasque because it just recently changed my campaign world forever, and my current pbp game when a group of level 5ers stumbled upon it.

However, my favorite monsters are the custom ones I have created to give my specific group hell.