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Unusual D&D Boss-monsters?

Started by RPGPundit, May 12, 2017, 06:45:42 PM

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May 12, 2017, 06:45:42 PM
There's certain monsters in D&D that make natural "boss" villains. Depending on level, you have orc chiefs, evil human wizards or clerics, Liches or Vampires, Dragons, Demons, etc.

What about less usual ones? What unexpected D&D monster would you make your 'boss villain', and why?
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May 12, 2017, 07:11:25 PM
No one ever selects Flumphs, so... Flumphs! :D (I can see it now: "Flumphs and Tyrrany of Fun!")
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May 12, 2017, 09:48:25 PM
Changelings. "They're everywhere..."
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May 12, 2017, 10:21:31 PM
A halfling, In a mechanical suit of armour. Who was running a cult. And who posed as the bosses prisoner. And got away...

A nightmare who was the one actually running things, not its rider.

A unicorn who as fed up with people cutting down his forest.

A wererat who just about took over an entire town.

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May 13, 2017, 07:14:41 PM
Someone or something like in the movie Don't Look Now.

(I once did, in fact, and one player almost freaked out because he felt reminded of that movie - but he thought that was a coincidence and his interpretation, so he tried to stay calm. If he had known that I was pulling that string deliberately he would have left the table...)
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May 14, 2017, 08:18:52 AM
Archons - because humanity has been given enough chances. (examples: the old testament, Dogma, CW's Supernatural)

Fleshgolem - Master is killed and it's seeking revenge (example: Frankenstein's monster)

Sprite - Someone has (poisoned the well / stolen the batch of Pixie-dust or kidnapped the queen of faeries) and they're seeking the perpetrator who's hiding in a small village causing all sorts of mischief and destruction.

Mimic artificer - created an army of gadgets and artifact minions for domination of a small town or area, using an old smelting factory as it's base of operations.
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May 15, 2017, 06:54:18 PM
Quote from: Batman;962238Archons - because humanity has been given enough chances. (examples: the old testament, Dogma, CW's Supernatural)

You know, I've always wondered how one would go about setting up celestials as antagonists, and why this approach hadn't occurred to me is beyond me.

Like... it seems ridiculously obvious in hindsight.
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May 16, 2017, 01:03:06 AM
An 'enlightened' Otyugh (his back history involved a very bored Mindflayer), he ran Waterdeep's garbage collector's guild.  Like a mafia.
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May 16, 2017, 10:25:19 AM
A roper. Ropers are chaotic evil creatures with exceptional intelligence, 10-12 hit dice, magic resistance, and six tentacle attacks per round that grab and cause weakness. These guys get overlooked and treated like joke monsters, but they are really hardcore.

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May 18, 2017, 07:04:43 PM
Quote from: Cave Bear;962540A roper. Ropers are chaotic evil creatures with exceptional intelligence, 10-12 hit dice, magic resistance, and six tentacle attacks per round that grab and cause weakness. These guys get overlooked and treated like joke monsters, but they are really hardcore.

Yeah, the "exceptional intelligence" is always the weird part about the Roper. Because by all appearances it should be an animal. Except we're told they're actually like philosophers or something.
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