I know we all hate the ghosts and wraiths and generally all the incorporeal undeads that don't take any damage from your beloved sword, and drain your ability stats and heal themselves up afterwards, so that little damage you managed to deal them means nothing.
But they are nothing compared to their evil elder brother; the corporeal undead. My characters usually do pretty well until they meet the feared corporeal undead. I now have 5 death/near death experiences with undeads, but none with other creature types.
It may be that undeads are always filled with diseases and other kinds of fortitude saves. i always blow my fortitude saves. I could be Lord Constitution, the Superstitious Barbarian of The Great Fortitude and still blow every single fortitude save. They also have a habit of lying perfectly still waiting for adventurers to go near them, and then make a full attack and outright kill the poor human. Sometimes they disguise themselves like humans with only a little pale skin. The guy you thought was a wizard, was suddenly ghoul dropping its quarterstaff and mutilating the poor human(this happened to my character last night). Now I think I will always carry a scroll of detect undead, so they can't do this to me anymore.
How about you? What are your most hated enemy and what do you do to counter them(if you do anything).
Wendigo.
i have my party so scared of that will save they will not leave with out checking there gear for food to burn to appease the wendigo.
note the only thing they ever faced was the "Dream Haunting" that's it, they never even seen one. but they dread the idea of me grabbing up another one of there character sheets before saying "roll for initiative"
also they rolled so low on there knowledge roll they are pretty sure they are every where.
Swarms. My Carrion Crown group lives in mortal fear of the things. Our last fight with a ridiculous tick swarm ended with the rest of the party urging me to throw a flask of alchemist's fire at the party paladin - who was unconscious and dying - before the ticks sucked him dry. It was awful.
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How about you? What are your most hated enemy and what do you do to counter them(if you do anything).
Paladins. They burn your homes, your books, your apprentices, your property, your artwork... I've found that the best way to deal with these headache-inducing nuisances is to attack their mount as they're traveling alongside a ravine or cliff (rolling boulders also works); the horse goes downhill, takes the rider, and breaks his or her leg. Sure they might be able to heal themselves...after getting out from under over half a ton of horse-carcass.
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Trolls, as it seems fire is never around when the Trolls are.
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Pugwampi. G*$@#!n Pugwampi. 'Nuff said.
Swarms. Most Def. Swarms.. only certain things can hurt them (and you're always short on them when they are required) and you can't really outrun them...
Another swarm-hater here. Always end up in a party without AoEs to deal with swarms, somehow. Looking at my parties now, I'm:
> a Witch without AoE spells with a Gunslinger and Monk
> a Vitalist with a Magus and Monk
> a Summoner with a Wizard and Monk
My Kingmaker group (where I'm GMing) consists of a Magus, an Oracle with no AoE spells, and a Barbarian. The PbP I'm running has a Magus, a Bard, a Gunslinger, and another Oracle with no AoE spells (seeing a few patterns here?).
Only one of these groups is equipped to handle swarms.
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Yar.
Gnomes.
~P
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The board monster. It eats my pos----
Stirges. I have never had a group playing in my campaigns who did not hate the things.
Meenlocks are a good second.
Dopplegangers. Always get tricked by them into doing something legally compromising and usually against the wrong npc.
lol...I used dopples against a player who was really being a pain to everyone.
Other than that I would have to say Quicklings...painted up as clowns.
My GM from a few years back...*shudder*