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Have you ever seen something unexpected from Pathfinder? It seems more straightforward than 3.5 Dungeons and Dragons. I'm trying to create some crazy bad guys to surprise people in a Pathfinder game and I'm looking for ideas.
Here are some ideas:
Black Antoid
Pit Bull Slug
Ramblin' Evil Mushroom
Insane Cultist
Mole Playing Rough
Putrid Moldyman
Violent Roach
Slimy Little Pile
Ranboob
Smilin' Sphere
Evil Mani Mani Statue
Enraged Fire Plug
Great Crested Booka
Evil Asp Hieroglyph
Tangoo
Demonic Petunia
Wild 'n' Woolly Shambler
Starman Deluxe
Wetnosaur
Major Psychic Psycho
Electro-Swoosh
Bionic Kraken
Ultimate Octobot
A friend of mine swears up and down he ran a Planescape campaign where the BBEG was a sandwich.
A generator for this kind of thing
Or if you prefer rolling on a chart
Example: Squirrel-Summoning Law-abiding Monster from Another Campaign Setting
Otiluke's Irresistable Steamy Scientologist
Asphyxiating Garishly coloured Gazebo
Polite Questionably platonic SOUL (yours, specifically)
Flash-Frozen Pixelated Cyborg
Sewer-Dwelling Smash-Hit-Single Recording Valkyrie
A friend of mine swears up and down he ran a Planescape campaign where the BBEG was a sandwich.
I remember in highschool, in one adventure we faced a giant pizza monster...
A friend of mine swears up and down he ran a Planescape campaign where the BBEG was a sandwich.I remember in highschool, in one adventure we faced a giant pizza monster...
The calzone golem?
A friend of mine swears up and down he ran a Planescape campaign where the BBEG was a sandwich.I remember in highschool, in one adventure we faced a giant pizza monster...
I recall in high school we faced a Giant Kumquat. We never let him GM again. :-)
Have you ever seen something unexpected from Pathfinder? It seems more straightforward than 3.5 Dungeons and Dragons. I'm trying to create some crazy bad guys to surprise people in a Pathfinder game and I'm looking for ideas.
Here are some ideas:
Black Antoid
Pit Bull Slug
Ramblin' Evil Mushroom
Insane Cultist
Mole Playing Rough
Putrid Moldyman
Violent Roach
Slimy Little Pile
Ranboob
Smilin' Sphere
Evil Mani Mani Statue
Enraged Fire Plug
Great Crested Booka
Evil Asp Hieroglyph
Tangoo
Demonic Petunia
Wild 'n' Woolly Shambler
Starman Deluxe
Wetnosaur
Major Psychic Psycho
Electro-Swoosh
Bionic Kraken
Ultimate Octobot
I see somebody's been playing Earthbound. Nice reference.
As far as things unexpected, you might consider looking at the Seeds of Sehan arc from Dungeon magazine (issues 145-147). Lots of crazy stuff in that one. As far as pathfinder modules go, the Harrowing's really nice and surreal.
Don't be afraid to reskin monsters and/or use templates. A quickling (Bestiary II) with the Giant template and a few levels of monk could make for a fun hit and run type speedster martial artist, for example.
Likewise, how you describe/foreshadow the monster and the situations you put it in can make it seem exotic. Here's an example from my home game. Just a while ago I ran a low-level homemade adventure with a crazy wine brewer that had been driven out of business by a greedy merchant. In revenge, he turned to alchemy to brew something foul. However, the brew turned him into something of a beastman whose hunger made him pray upon the local domesticated sheep herds. The locals thought it was the work of werewolves. In game terms, the wine brewer was just a low-level alchemist with the feral mutagen. Typically his MO was hiding and sending out a spider swarm (via a vomit swarm extract) to chase out the sheep and then pick one or two off at his leisure.
The party usually set up a stake out guarding a local farmer's herd. The sudden appearance of a spider swarm really threw off the party, so it really left them scratching their heads. Only when they managed to track the creature to its lair (took several stake outs to get a fix on it) and saw the alchemical/winebrewing gear did the party learn of the truth- that the "werewolf" wasn't really one at all.
So yeah, just by using some misinformation and an air of mystery can you inject some fresh weirdness into your game.
The calzone golem?A friend of mine swears up and down he ran a Planescape campaign where the BBEG was a sandwich.I remember in highschool, in one adventure we faced a giant pizza monster...
I had a DM run that adventure once.
I was like "What the Hell?" Almost dropped right out of that game because I thought he was just wasting our time, putting us on for a lark.
I felt a little bad when I found out it was actually a published free adventure, but not that bad since he still chose to run it.
Played around with these abit and started to really get worried when I rolled up the Hypocritical Traditional SUV and the Unmoveable Bubbly Kangaroo. Although I might just use that Kangaroo...
The calzone golem?A friend of mine swears up and down he ran a Planescape campaign where the BBEG was a sandwich.I remember in highschool, in one adventure we faced a giant pizza monster...
No this was the result of one of our group who tended to run very lighthearted adventures, and another who had some pretty bizarre eating habits. In high school the latter was insanely picky about what he ate, bread, ketchup, plain pasta...thats pretty much it. So at dnd, we would almost always order a pizza, and he would scrape all the cheese toppings and sauce off of his slices. Basically eating moist bread. One of the other members (the lighthearted dm) decided that a monster made up of all the discarded pizza toppings and cheese had warped into the game world and attacked the pizza scrapping player. Hilarity ensued as the dm described a whole series of pizza based attacks. Not exactly immersive story telling, but it was pretty darn funny.
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The calzone golem?A friend of mine swears up and down he ran a Planescape campaign where the BBEG was a sandwich.I remember in highschool, in one adventure we faced a giant pizza monster...
SOMEONE'S been watching spaceballs :D so is pizza the hut a good villain?
Probably the tooth-bear.
Might I suggest going back to the Castle Greyhawk adventure for the GINGERBREAD MAN and woe be unto you if you fail to get the +5 Mithril bread-knife before hand.
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I once fought a monster the upper body of an immensely obese woman with a swallow whole attack and a lower body shaped as a couch.
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I once fought a monster the upper body of an immensely obese woman with a swallow whole attack and a lower body shaped as a couch.
Nice...
At one time, i could see that my players were getting bored, so i had Lady Gaga attack them. I gave her all kinds of deadly sonic and fear based attacks...we had fun with that one.
