tanderson11
2011-01-22, 08:47 PM
I was running Ruins of Greyhawk module, as a pretty newbie DM and everything was going pretty smoothly until at one point in the dungeon the PCs free a trapped Grell (its HD have been advanced by about 3-5, yet it should only be a CR 4 according to the book).
I had not prepped this part overly much and had only glanced at the grell and not understood the extent of its power level.
The PCs get to bargaining with it and it agrees to help them kill the blackguard who had trapped the grell.
In next two encounters the grell single handedly one rounds every enemy. At this point everyone is in a state of shock that the grell is this powerful. The blackguard that I had revamped and was worried might kill the entire party was dispatched in a matter of rounds as well.
The party assassin at this point was as terrified as I was by the grell and managed to study it for a death attack during the combat. Fortunately all went according to plan and the grell died, but for a while there I was terrified the party might some how dominate the grell and ride the campaign to an easy conclusion.
Does anyone else have horror stories about monsters they grossly under-estimated they'd like to share?
I had not prepped this part overly much and had only glanced at the grell and not understood the extent of its power level.
The PCs get to bargaining with it and it agrees to help them kill the blackguard who had trapped the grell.
In next two encounters the grell single handedly one rounds every enemy. At this point everyone is in a state of shock that the grell is this powerful. The blackguard that I had revamped and was worried might kill the entire party was dispatched in a matter of rounds as well.
The party assassin at this point was as terrified as I was by the grell and managed to study it for a death attack during the combat. Fortunately all went according to plan and the grell died, but for a while there I was terrified the party might some how dominate the grell and ride the campaign to an easy conclusion.
Does anyone else have horror stories about monsters they grossly under-estimated they'd like to share?