Well just today finished up an adventure that started last night. Now I left my friends house and am posting the boss that is the boss... Ok to put it bluntly, this boss was awesome! And what really made me like it was that the boss was a combination of a fiendish Artifact and a former god (Malgoth anyone?) that we had once tried to destory. We fought the Malgoth in a previous adventure about that town called Istavan, and the Artifact was from a home-brewed campaign. The artifact took over my evil sister and she became crazy, made a demi-plane, and almost summoned Timat to the material plane... But as we killed her and took the Artifact we jumped into the portal and out of the demi-plane, sadly the artifact got sucked in (failed reflex save...) and was supposed to be lost forever inbetween all of the planes. Then if you know the dungeon issue i'm talking about (the one with flumph adventure, Istavan adventure, and that other temple of Iuz adventure I think but i'm probably wrong about that one) we went near that temple of time and fell asleep. The next morning our NPC friend Onrie was gone... Over the span of about 7 adventures or so we found him this one. He was in the abyss summoning shadows and nightwalkers. He was also corrupted by the Artifact, it had (with the malgoth's help) taken control of Onrie. We had to knock out Onrie or immobalize him to make the malgoth come out of him. We first had to kill the three nightwalkers while the gnomeish army (long story) came in to kill the small shadows, or atleast make a diversion. Oh and for a side question, what god is "The Soul Reaver"? But anyway we killed nightwalkers, and then managed to get to Onrie. I used power word stun and the malgoth left and tried to enter our fighter's body Laurell. She was controled so hold person made the Malgoth leave her body. We fought and fought, and they killed my summoned magma paramental. And for another side question, how many bosses can do 198 damage even if your monster has DR 15 to all 6 hits!?! We finally killed it after finding out it's weakness, cone of cold a thousand and one times. I love being able to cast so many spells per day. Our ranger Quarian couldn't get past DR except for once when he got a CRIT. Our rouge couldn't do anything. Laurell was stuck in the hold person that I cast. And last but not least for all but the last 3 rounds Onrie was stunned. We killed it and finally we have rid the Malgoth of the multi-planed universe!!! Not so sure of the Artifact, but hey were willing to kick it's shardy butt for the 3rd time. But after all of that I have to say that was the best boss i've ever fought, and one of the best adventures yet. And the best part...i'm lvl 19 now!!! Finally I get to use my spell I invented. Onrie died, so did Laurell. So we got them resurected, good thing they were NPC's. Yeah...good times, good times.
So do you have a boss that is the boss, wether it be one you fought, or as for DMs, one you controled. Or maybe if you fought it you could still control it? (dominate person/monster...) So yeah, do you have a boss that is the boss? I'll look forward to reading this later.
~Love The Flabulator!?!
Yes, I couldn't resist. The Malgoth is to cool to be left alone even after a 3-part. Anyway, to make the epictastical stat block (CR 22) I added some extra arms and a 2nd head (demon lords are better that way) and added it to a half demon human barbarian 10 fighter 5 and gave him a double headed 24d6 breath weapon (reflex 30) then a whole mess of spell like abilities and DR/SR. He had good saves exept reflex and I made his one weakness ice and made him immune to almost everything else.
He can spend a turn to posses (spl?) anyone (Will 25) and anyone under his control gets all his spell like abilities and +5 insight bonus on damage/hits and weapons are treated as one size catagory larger (those are previose abilities of the shard)
So... ya, he was nasty with those speed keen short swords and 200+ up damage per turn. And also Flabulator, I would have killed you from that crit if I didnt have fate points in my game! lol
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The boss who was the boss was Strahd von Zarovich. I don't know if you guys know who he was, maybe you do. The module was I6-Ravenloft; like 1983 or something; he was this billy bmf vampire with level 10 magicuser (wizard now). I played the crew through Castle Ravenloft, they beat him, moved on to bigger and better things...
Then I saw in this cheesy B-movie from the 1960's about the return of Dracula; one of his fanboys gathered up his ashes, put them in a coffin, dumped a whole lotta blood on the ashes and "poof" Dracula Returns!
So what's good for Dracula, I figure...
So whilst my group has beaten the giants in G1 through G3 and is in the middle of D1 Descent into the Depths of the earth, on their way to a certain infamous Drow city, who shows up?
Strahd. Only now Strahd has with him what my one of my players sarcastically named the Strahd Squad--his Daughter(hey, Dracula had a daughter; why not Strahd?) a buff vampiress fighter, an anti-paladin, a mummy cleric of Set, and Lassiviren the Dark(an assassin from the Rogue's Gallery--hey, he don't care who's gold he takes...)So they fight those guys in an epic showdown, whoop up on them, and what do you know, Strahd assumes gaseous form and scoots off. One of my players was like, "of course Strahd got away." But the other guys were like, "that was bad! Hey, man, you should make him like...get another Strahd Squad up or something."
The recurring villain that everyone loves to hate was born.
Yep, I've heard of him...
My Dad was a fan of Ravenloft brfore and mentioned this vampire magic user who was exactly like Dracula and almost all but invincible...
Yep, I've heard of him...
My Dad was a fan of Ravenloft brfore and mentioned this vampire magic user who was exactly like Dracula and almost all but invincible...
Your . . . dad . . . oh lord I feel old now . . .
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Yep, I've heard of him...
My Dad was a fan of Ravenloft brfore and mentioned this vampire magic user who was exactly like Dracula and almost all but invincible...Your . . . dad . . . oh lord I feel old now . . .
I can't WAIT til my son and daughter are old enough to game. As it is I have to hide my dice so they won't choke on them.
But, yeah. I remember pc starting age, saying "dang, can't wait til I'm 18." Now it's like "dang, wish I was still 27."
In an attempt to keep the thread on track, my favorite boss was Mephisto the half-fiend elven wizard. He had a butt load of minions called Mastars, which were made by shoving a magic key into any humanoid's back. The group eventually killed him with the magic weapons from White Plume Mountain, and went off to hunt down his drow apprentice.
Of course, I couldn't let my major bad guy go down just yet, so his general, Malacca the black mastar ranger, got together Mephisto's bits and pieces and returned Mephisto to "life" as a lich. Since one of my players has played through the adventure I'm running now, The Tomb of Horrors, I figured I'd better add a twist. Mephisto the lich and his drow apprentice sent a group of their own to make an ally of the demilich.
Have fun.
The boss who was the boss was Strahd von Zarovich.
Good call.
I'd have to say that I would consider Dragotha from Into the Worcrawl Fissure as the "King of All Bad-Assness." He's a classic, yet still new, and the sheer power of his attacks and the options at his disposal, compared to the party level he is to be encountered at, is just awe-inspiring. It really is. I haven't run him yet, but I would absolutely love to get a chance to maul some PC to bonemeal with this MF.