PFS - Memorable Opponents - SPOILERS


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What are some of the most memorable opponents you've had in a PFS scenario.

A lot of them are fairly humdrum. "Uh... yeah that scenario had umm... seems like I remember some skeletons and a caster of some kind... was probably some sort of cleric or something..."

Then others are talked about forever. "Oh man it was totally kool! We didn't know what we were going to do. See there was this ... "

A couple of the ones I remember best are:

SPOILER - Way of the Kirin:

Not the end fight or the army assault. But the alchemists running across the ceiling throwing bombs and starting fires totally confused our group. We were almost TPK'd by them. No one had ever considered anything to put out a fire. Several melee guys had never seen a need for anything with range or reach. There was some genuine surprise on some faces that have played for a while. I remember one guy trying to throw the chairs up at the guys on the ceiling.

SPOILER - Midnight Mauler:

Trying to catch and stop a decent guy that can't control himself anymore WITHOUT killing him was pretty interesting.

So try not to give so many details as to ruin it for others, but what are some of the opponents you remember best from you PFS career?

Dark Archive 5/5

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Of Kirin and Kraken:
Ryobus. Ryobus!

Sovereign Court 5/5 *

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TetsujinOni wrote:
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Completely agree, that was a fun fight, at one point I thought the fight well in hand, and performed an action that was mostly useless. Then by my next turn I realized things were going south, and had to really jump in.

5/5

TetsujinOni wrote:
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Also agreed.

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I really enjoyed exclaiming "SQUIZARD!" when we first saw him.

Paizo Employee 4/5 Developer

TetsujinOni wrote:
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Is that…a wizard hat on that squid? Awesome.
Dark Archive 5/5

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John Compton wrote:
TetsujinOni wrote:
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Spoiler:

Yep. I need to get a shot of the updated mini, too - we decided the wizard hat wasn't wizard hatty enough, so it got some stars and moons. I'm running this 3x at GenCon so one of us is going to craft a frost staff to scale, too...

Shadow Lodge

John Compton wrote:
TetsujinOni wrote:
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Yes... yes it is. It made me happy (because I was making it, not playing).

Grand Lodge 4/5 5/55/5 ** Venture-Lieutenant, Florida—Melbourne

I particularly enjoyed foiling the Penguin's plans to steal priceless artifacts from the Blackros Museum in Something Wicked This Way Waddles.

4/5 5/5 Venture-Lieutenant, Finland—Tampere

TetsujinOni wrote:
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Spoiler:
We just made endless Ultros jokes.
Grand Lodge 4/5

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Dalsine. Such a bastard.

The King of the Storval Stairs and Krune also managed to kill my characters.

And of course

Golemworks Incident:
Chrysalis Black. So much messed up stuff going on there.

Lantern Lodge 5/5

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God's Market Gamble:
Parani FREAKING Akar.

Canvas Absolam hunting a "ruthless" criminal? Been there, before...no sweat, right?

This one leaves a reasonable trail of dead bodies. And at the end, is a fight to match. She's legit.

Can't wait to meet this one in Core Mode.

4/5 RPG Superstar 2015 Top 4, RPG Superstar 2014 Top 16

6-04: Beacon Below:
Saruna the mummified gynosphinx. She has a tragic backstory, compelling motivations the PCs can sympathize with and the potential to be either an enemy or long-standing ally depending on what the PCs do. Brilliant.

Shadow Lodge 4/5

Both Haldyr and Natalya from Frozen Fingers.

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Being able to talk them down, and in the case of the later both reunite and redeem Natayla from her dark side thing was amazing. All in all, it's a very epic feeling scenario, that most others have failed to reach.

Zamir from Assault on the Kingdom of the Impossible (NOT IN A GOOD WAY)

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All because his stupid pet.

Kuburrum Ishme-Dagan and Imrizade Blakros in The Voice in the Void.

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Just an awesome villain for an amazing scenario. With the right DM and setting the mood, this is the best of the Blakros Museum scenarios.

Sabas from The Jester’s Fraud, Caggrigar from The Sarkorian Prophecy, and Parani Akar from The Godsmarket Gamble.

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Sometimes it’s nice to just go all out and massacre the crap out of an irredeemable evil, and these all had interesting build-ups, personalities, and motivations.

These where all great, and I’m really hard pressed to choose which is most fitting for the number 2 slot, but number 1 is both seperately, Illvaster

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Surprize, nope, you don’t get to slay a real dragon. . .
and Koth’Vaul
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now that is a villain. . .
from The Night Marches of Kalkamedes.

All of these are amongst my favorite scenarios, minus Assault on the Kingdom of the Impossible.

Silver Crusade 5/5 5/5 **

Steven Schopmeyer wrote:

And of course Golemworks Incident:

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Chrysalis Black. So much messed up stuff going on there.

Loved him as a villain. But

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it is just absurd that he isn't evil. Worst alignment decision ever.

Sovereign Court 1/5

Jayson MF Kip wrote:
*God's Market Gamble Stuffs*

My Experience GMing it.:
One of my PCs decided to trivialize the entire fight by casting Blindness/Deafness on Parani to blind her. After all the investigation and fun trail-following, I WAS ready to bring the fight to them but...yeah. Save-or-suck spells do a good job of pooping on GM's parties.
Liberty's Edge 1/5

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Vengeance at Sundered Crag

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Critted on the summoner's eidolon with a greataxe. The summoner promptly screeches in rage and turns the eidolon on me. Eidolon turns my fighter into munchies, and I'm WAY too far away for the healer to get to me.

GM; "The eidolon flings you around like a limp rag doll and throws you spectacularly in the direction of the paladin" (who just happens to have Gloves of First Aid).

Me; "Mwahaha! I'm back you stumpy bastard!"

Dark Archive 5/5 *

The spyder

5/5

Sometimes even unnamed enemies can become very memorable encounters. Players will remember when the unnamed demons string them up from the ceiling and put their eyeballs in a punchbowl after their defeat. One even took a level of ranger for favored enemy: evil outsiders afterward!

Sovereign Court 5/5

I don't even remember the adventure, but I remember the encounter:

Our fighter was knocked to negative 28 by a big bad guy. My wizard drew a scroll of Breath of Life from his havorsack and held it as a move action, then glitterdusted the bad guy as a standard. Party halfling with high UMD takes the scroll as a move action and then readies to cast when she's next to our downed fighter. Finally, party monk picks up and carries said halfling to fighter. Halfling then rolls a 3 on UMD, uses shirt re-roll and gets a 19 on the die (and with high skill bonus, pulls it off).

We let the fighter roll the healing and he gets 5, 6, 7, 7, 8 and is easily able to dispatch the bad guy from the ground next turn.

1/5

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Koth'vaul, my eternal enemy

also riddles

and sphinxes who give you terrible riddles

and fake sphinxes who give you even more terrible riddles

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