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7 months ago ::
Nov 14, 2012 - 6:03PM
#21
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Date Joined:
Jun 24, 2005
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No love for Displacer Beast? My top five in no order.
Displacer Beast, Specters, Trolls, Mean Archmages, and Giant Scorpions. All fun to fight.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 14, 2012 - 6:08PM
#22
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Date Joined:
May 12, 2009
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- Dragon
- Beholder
- Mind Flayer
- Rust monster
- Bulette
- Gelatinous Cube
- Ghoul
- Banshee
- Mimic
- Githyanki
Yan
Montréal, Canada
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7 months ago ::
Nov 14, 2012 - 6:39PM
#23
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No love for Displacer Beast? My top five in no order. Displacer Beast, Specters, Trolls, Mean Archmages, and Giant Scorpions. All fun to fight.
Displacer cloak is one of my fav magic items. Does that count?
P.S. Please don't tell PETA. 
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7 months ago ::
Nov 14, 2012 - 6:41PM
#24
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Date Joined:
Jun 15, 2012
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1. Goblin - I love running goblins as a Dm. They run, they find friends, they turn on each other It makes for an engaging and dynamic early dungeon.
2. Golem - i like the dungeon design opportunities that these guys provide
3. Rust monster
4. Mind flayer
5. Gnoll - These guys can make for pretty scary stuff and i love thier look
6. Dragons
7. gelatenous cube
8. Humans - i think people forget these guys
9. Lich
10. Giant - i love the dungeon design opportunity they provide
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5. Breath. It's just a dumb game.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 14, 2012 - 7:51PM
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Date Joined:
May 25, 2012
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In order for me to feel I've got a good handle on the game, I need to see mobs, tough solo 'boss' monsters, what happens when monsters can do the same spells characters can, and 'surprise' monsters that resist obvious character tactics. For those purposes:
1.) Green slime / BlackPudding / Ochre Jelly (someday I'm making an all-jelly dungeon, swear to golly)
2.) Goblins (the archetypal mob monster)
3.) Lich (as powerful and smart as the PCs, plus summoning skelebuddies, etc)
4.) Beholder (The ultimate solo monster, IMNSHO. Living artillery barrage)
5.) Rust Monster (Ok, you swing your sword at it. Oopsie)
6.) Mind Flayer (ick factor, plus the fun of mindless drones)
7.) Vampire (Particularly if the PCs don't start knowing it is one)
8.) Aboleth (turning them against one another, always amusing)
9.) Dragon (old-school - claw, claw, wing buffet, tail whip, bite, breath weapon...okay, pc's turn)
10.) Ettin (something about the two heads always said 'real' giant to me)
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7 months ago ::
Nov 14, 2012 - 8:14PM
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10) Mooncalves. A personal favorite of mine from the 3E Monster Manual II. If you haven't tried running one yet, I highly recommend it.
9) Swarms. The DM's change-up pitch.
8) Goblins. Of all the evil humanoids, these always seem to present the most flexible and diverse threat.
7) Inevitables. LN outsiders are actually scary now.
6) Liches and death knights. Two sides of the same coin, in my eyes: powerful and intelligent undead with long-term goals.
5) Mind flayers. Because they flay minds.
4) Giants. There's just something primally satisfying about taking on a guy who's three times your size and winning.
3) Devils. Cunning, calculating, and evil beyond imagination.
2) Dragons. No surprise here. They are literally the name of the game.
1) NPCs. Nothing is as scary to a party as another party that is as smart, skilled, and coordinated as they are.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 14, 2012 - 8:17PM
#27
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No love for Displacer Beast?
I actually really hate them. Gygaxian randomness at its worst.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 14, 2012 - 9:12PM
#28
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Date Joined:
Apr 12, 2008
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What would you like to playtest? What are the best monsters you have encountered in your game life? I ask because it might be interesting to see how the playtest handles the monsters that people most like. Well, I doubt some of these will ever see the light of day again (officially, that is), but here are some of my favorite monsters from throughout the years. 
In fond memory of Mark "Wrecan" Monack.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 14, 2012 - 9:14PM
#29
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- Wizards
- Devourers
- Ghouls
- Dragons
- Elves
- Oni
- Thri-kreen
- Foulspawn
- Kobold
- Goblins
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7 months ago ::
Nov 15, 2012 - 1:48AM
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Date Joined:
May 24, 2012
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Orcs
Skeletons
Lizard Folk
Medusa
Minotaur
Wererat
Dragons
Ghost
Evil NPC's
and Gnolls
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