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Post by The Archivist on Apr 24, 2015 12:37:58 GMT -5
What is your favorite monster as a Ref/DM? Mine are Dragons, Beholders and Shambling Mounds.
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Post by makofan on Apr 24, 2015 13:01:20 GMT -5
Purple Worms and Gelatinous Cubes
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Post by Admin Pete on Apr 24, 2015 15:13:39 GMT -5
I love all five that have been named so far, but if I had to pick one it would be between Gelatinous Cubes and Beholders.  |
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Post by tetramorph on Apr 24, 2015 15:18:03 GMT -5
You know, I gotta say, I really like the liberal application of large groups of the simple fell races.
I really enjoy sending an entire heard of goblins - especially at fairly high level PCs who think they can handle it in a synch. I like to have the goblins attack en masse, grapple, and hold a morgul blade up to one of their necks and demand terms and conditions or this one is gonna get it. It is pretty fun watching them sweat after they are so sure it is going to be so easy.
And the most fun I ever had as a ref with a monster encounter (the time I was most tempted to become a "killer ref," but mercy stayed my hand and I remained, oh brethren, the impartial referee I have been called to be, oh yes) was when a group of some high lvl PCs had just successfully cleared the first level of a dungeon and they thought they could waltz into the second level and blow it to smithereens. I had the door shut and a big painted sign that said: "Stay out or suffer the consequences!" They laughed. They burst open the door without even listening. As soon as they walked in they heard a voice "Just as I thought, they have returned, get them men!" A party of chaotic MUs and FM just railed on them out of the blue. The first thing that went off was a fireball that killed a few and knocked a few unconscious (we house rule that). They said "how many do we see," I said "you are stuck in the fog of melee and you can only discern that there are several figures," so they had no clue what was really going on. After one full round of that the chaotic lead wizard guy calls out "release the creature!" And that is when it got really fun. Uncountable tentacles flung out from around a corner, knocked half of them down, grabbed half of the ones that were down and started slowly pulling them around that corner and down the corridor. "What is it? What do we see?" "You see tentacles dragging you away towards darkness." Fun.
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Post by robkuntz on Apr 24, 2015 16:22:47 GMT -5
The one being used in ways than as otherwise denoted.
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Post by waysoftheearth on Apr 25, 2015 0:37:37 GMT -5
Purple Worms and Gelatinous Cubes My players (ten 2nd-5th level PCs) just lucked in to a desert encounter with four purple worms... fun  |
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Post by makofan on Apr 25, 2015 7:51:38 GMT -5
Purple Worms and Gelatinous Cubes My players (ten 2nd-5th level PCs) just lucked in to a desert encounter with four purple worms... fun Yowch! And they probably don't have a sword of wishes... |
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Post by Von on Apr 28, 2015 2:32:49 GMT -5
Still the Lich. Always and forever. Intelligent, malevolent, powerful, and flaunting the arrogance of eternity. Dangling temptation before the magic user - "this is what you could be, had you the will" - and bound up with an inherent sense of narrative. You must have done something to earn its ire, and you must do something protracted and dangerous to be rid of it.
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Post by Maximum Forest Ranger on May 3, 2015 8:26:35 GMT -5
A very intelligent Beholder going for the aggressive knockout punch!
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Feb 28, 2023 19:06:44 GMT -5
I'm not sure BUT I do have a tendency to use a lot of undead variants in my games.
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