Your favorite boss monster for the end of an adventure or one-shot?
Alternatively, your favorite set piece battles with a horde of foes?
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Your favorite boss monster for the end of an adventure or one-shot?
Your favorite boss monster for the end of an adventure or one-shot?
I love using purple worms for one-shots, because when they burrow up from below, it creates a lot of dynamic terrain and multiple fields of battle (surface, tunnel, inside the worm).
Boss monster? Dragon, naturally. Set piece battles? Hordes of fanatical cultists in a temple to a nameless dark god.
Gregory Daily can attest to this one:
The Chimerapus (see profile pic for reference)
A fire-breathing Platypus the size of a horse, with a scorpion tail and venom that displaces you in space.
It was just a natural creature in the world, and a perfect example of what happens when you give the players all the power. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing is up to you.
Gelatinous tesseract.
Slumbering, ancient giants that arose from the sea when the “Titan’s Crown” was worn again.
Still untested but I’m day-dreaming of:
-a fight with a gargantuan collosus (think Shadow of the colossus) guarding a powerful magic item
-a medusa in the middle of her lair, a gallery of stone “statues”
-a seductress vampire sitting in a desecrated cathedral amongst her enthralled half-naked servants.
Gotta love a dragon…
Boss: Demon Lord or Prince / Primordial Lord or Prince
Horde: Cultists