Jeremy Mac Donald wrote:
Replacing the Dire Boar is sacrilegious. That Dire Boar is almost certainly the single most bad ass creature ever placed into a Paizo publication. It has more character deaths to its name then anything else they have ever published. I'd not be surprised to learn that its in fact the straight up leader in character deaths through out the whole 3.5 era of the game. The Age of Worms obituaries thread is practically a tribute to its prowess. Beast has to much history going for it to be replaced.
Its a tribute to your players if they either loose a comrade here or win through without loss - in either case they are treading ground that has been tread by hundreds of D&D players before them - Age of Worms was hugely popular when it first came out and while comparatively few campaigns saw the whole thing through many, many got to the first few encounters of the second adventure - a lot of them collapsed in a TPK right about the point where the party met Beast...
One way or another, that Dire Boar left a lasting impression on a stunning number of those that have gone before.
AroogA!
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