Bobby Baratheon
2016-03-14, 05:49 PM
So, my party is drastically exceeding expectations for effectiveness. Last week they took on and beat a purple worm in four rounds, fair and square, with an average party level of 6. Part of that was plain old dumb luck (one player miraculously surviving the sting, the two that got swallowed not dying and cutting their way out, a timely critical hit that ended up doing something like 60+ points of damage) and some crazy on their feet thinking (shoving a grenade inside a wound in the purple worm's side). I didn't even intend for them to fight the worm; it was supposed to chase them back into a ruined keep for a siege type scenario.
It's been my opinion for a while that most, if not all, of the beatstick type monsters are vastly overrated in terms of CR, but I feel that doesn't totally diminish the fact the party beat a CR 12 monster. Were I to throw another purple worm at them, they would most likely die, but this has been rather enlightening on their capabilities. I've been perusing the various monster manuals looking for an appropriate fight for them, and so far I'm just not feeling it on most of the options, while a couple of others just don't make sense.
For whatever reason, the only thing coming to mind is a gang of half-golem phase spiders, but I'd like something a little less silly. I'm also planning of having a hellfire wyrm level the city they're in to instill a little fear of the DM in them :smallwink: I want them to have a preliminary fight first, and so I turn to you, good people of the playground. What would you throw at the party?
We have (after leveling up from purple worm experience):
-Human Duskblade 5/Alchemist Savant 1 (new player who loves his explosives)
-Human Witch Hunter (a custom melee class I made centered around debuffs and ganking casters) 6
-Human Paladin of Freedom 2/Bard 4 (the best optimized of the players)
-My DMPC, a Lesser Cansin/Unseelie Fey Sorcerer 1/Warlock 1/Anima Mage 3/Eldritch Theurge 1 (yes, this is somehow RAW)
What would you throw at this group? For new players, they're fairly tactically sound but not too familiar with magic, so things that run almost totally off magic probably won't be a great fit.
It's been my opinion for a while that most, if not all, of the beatstick type monsters are vastly overrated in terms of CR, but I feel that doesn't totally diminish the fact the party beat a CR 12 monster. Were I to throw another purple worm at them, they would most likely die, but this has been rather enlightening on their capabilities. I've been perusing the various monster manuals looking for an appropriate fight for them, and so far I'm just not feeling it on most of the options, while a couple of others just don't make sense.
For whatever reason, the only thing coming to mind is a gang of half-golem phase spiders, but I'd like something a little less silly. I'm also planning of having a hellfire wyrm level the city they're in to instill a little fear of the DM in them :smallwink: I want them to have a preliminary fight first, and so I turn to you, good people of the playground. What would you throw at the party?
We have (after leveling up from purple worm experience):
-Human Duskblade 5/Alchemist Savant 1 (new player who loves his explosives)
-Human Witch Hunter (a custom melee class I made centered around debuffs and ganking casters) 6
-Human Paladin of Freedom 2/Bard 4 (the best optimized of the players)
-My DMPC, a Lesser Cansin/Unseelie Fey Sorcerer 1/Warlock 1/Anima Mage 3/Eldritch Theurge 1 (yes, this is somehow RAW)
What would you throw at this group? For new players, they're fairly tactically sound but not too familiar with magic, so things that run almost totally off magic probably won't be a great fit.