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Horrific Appearance (Su): All qlippoth have such horrific and mind-rending shapes that those who gaze upon them suffer all manner of ill effects. A qlippoth can present itself as a standard action to assault the senses of all living creatures within 30 feet. The exact effects caused by a qlippoth’s horrific appearance vary by the type of qlippoth. A successful Will save (DC 10 + 1/2 the qlippoth’s Hit Dice + the qlippoth’s Charisma modifier): reduces or negates the effect. This ability is a mind-affecting gaze attack.
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Nothing good ever shambles.
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It's rare, but a good GM is the scariest thing.
Who do you think is the scariest?
I have found the Iathavos to be the scariest. First, everyone in the party has to make a DC 30 will save every round in order to not be feebleminded and permanently blinded. Then, if it grapples someone they have to make a fort save to not be engulfed by the creature and turned into a qlippoth. To make things worse, it either nausiates you(if you fail your save) or sickens you if you make your save, which makes it more likely you get feebleminds or qlippothed.
I encountered one of these once. A few bad rolls later and our monk was now a mass of floating intestines and the wizard was feebleminded and blind. Scary monster.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/qlippoth/qlippo th-lathavos
A DC 30 save is not that hard to make by the time you run into them. I would expect for it to be dead before I fail those saves.
Its a gaze attack. If you go to the rules for gaze attacks, you have to save against it each round AND the monster can spend a standard action to force you to make another save.Actually the dc30 will save is a standard action for this creature.. so if its doing that you're not getting attacked.Who do you think is the scariest?
I have found the Iathavos to be the scariest. First, everyone in the party has to make a DC 30 will save every round in order to not be feebleminded and permanently blinded. Then, if it grapples someone they have to make a fort save to not be engulfed by the creature and turned into a qlippoth. To make things worse, it either nausiates you(if you fail your save) or sickens you if you make your save, which makes it more likely you get feebleminds or qlippothed.
I encountered one of these once. A few bad rolls later and our monk was now a mass of floating intestines and the wizard was feebleminded and blind. Scary monster.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/qlippoth/qlippo th-lathavos
Gaze attacks are automatic. The creature can use a standard action for an additional gaze attack against one target...
Okay, looking at the rules for the gaze attacks, and the ability the creature has... this still is a standard action for it to "present itself" which then triggers the gaze rules.. so again.. it still isn't attacking when this ability goes off =p
Man.
This, hands down.
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Ok, not the most powerful or the absolute scariest, but I have noticed with much humor that oozes, slimes, puddings seem to unnerve our little group the most. We run into them so infrequently that when one shows up everyone is wracking their brain trying to remember what works on what type and what special attacks they have. Always worth a few rounds moment of panic/worry. =)
Mechanically speaking? Swarms. I've lost count of the number of times we've encountered a swarm that we were ill-prepared to handle.
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Ooo yeah, the swarm/ooze combo I ran yesterday was pretty rough for the party.
How about a swarm of oozes
6 paladins, each with Shield Other cast on another one of them, and selective channeling.
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Not yet statted, this description of Chemnosit's autocannibalism ability from AP 24's article on the spawn of Rovagug puts Chemnosit at the top of my list:
The confused tales of those unhinged and hobbled few who have borne witness to Chemnosit's gaze and survived describe enduring the depths of final famine, feeling their very minds falling away as a hunger unlike any other overtakes them completely, until their desperate need to consume surpasses the very need for survival. Some scholars of the Clockwork Cathedral in Absalom categorize the disturbing results as “autocannibalism”—the victims tear into their own extremities, devouring still-warm hunks of their own bodies until, stuffed full of their own flesh, they vomit.
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Red Jester because, ya know, it's a clown; it's a zombie clown and it can throw a Deck of Many Things at you.
It's only CR 10!?! Are you s$*~ting me?
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Ooo yeah, the swarm/ooze combo I ran yesterday was pretty rough for the party.How about a swarm of oozes
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Red Jester because, ya know, it's a clown; it's a zombie clown and it can throw a Deck of Many Things at you.
Meth last time I faced that I've gotton gain a major weapon and next card was defeat the next monster and gain a level.
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The real monster is peer pressure.
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Having just ran Carnival of Tears recently, I have new respect for:
Dark Ice Brownies (a 1d6 dex touch 1/day, mirror image, working in teams= scary)
Quicklings (massive speed, hard to hit, spring attack plus using poison, sadistic as all hell)
Red Jester because, ya know, it's a clown; it's a zombie clown and it can throw a Deck of Many Things at you.
How is that thing NOT Chaotic Evil?
Oh, they're Third Party Material. If they were in Golarion canon, one of the devs would slap the Chaotic Evil label on that in an instant.
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Scariest monster? Anything that uses tactics to it's advantage.
Tuckers Kobolds man
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For me, it must be the Worm-that-walks : as dangerous as a high level wizard + tons of immuunities. And it looks ugly !!
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Scariest monster? Anything that uses tactics to it's advantage.
Tuckers Kobolds man
Kobolds using NPC classes are actually really scary for a low level party.
A kobold using the normal NPC array and has 5 levels of warrior is a CR 2 encounter.
It can have point blank shot, rapid shot, rapid reload on a light crossbow, and has over 30HP and a BAB of +5.
With those feats it can hit with +9/+9 for 1d6+1 per shot.
Or it could have rapid shot, point blank, deadly aim for a +7/+7 and 1d4+3 damage per shot.
+15 in stealth means that a low level party is going to have a hard time finding this guy when he doesn't want to be found.
The 2400 gold allowance for a 5th level warrior is going to pay for a bunch of nasty one use items and masterwork bows the above builds assume.
Now many parties will just roll over this guy anyways, but many more are going to be smarting after getting hit by it, potentially even PC deaths. Its not unreasonable to face this guy as a difficult encounter at level 1, and he can 1 round PCs at that level.
Of course the above is only possible because the NPC and Kobold CR rules are pretty useful for making enemies have inflated HP and BAB/abilities for their CR.
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I don't necessarily conflate challenging with scary.
A group of smartly played mercenaries can be challenging, but I won't be scared.
Now THIS scares the crap out of me. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a hosted image of the Bestiary picture, which is actually even creepier, but the Kelpie (ridiculous name aside) gave me nightmares the first time I saw it.
I dunno. It might be because of how much it reminds me of a certain other horse picture that traumatized me as a child.
Clusters of incorporeal undead (like shadows) are the ones that scare me:
-Nasty attacks
-Alien, murderous mindset
-Hard to kill. At least if played by a tactically-skilled GM.
THIS!! ^^
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Pugwampis. F#$!ing pugwampis.
I wouldn't say 'scariest.'
Definitely most hated...
I previous editions, I feared the Grell and the Carrion Crawler. Never once had someone succeed at all eight saving throws vs. paralyzation... Friggin' Night Below. We steamrollered that Shadow Dragon encounter, and then got TPK'd by some vastly weaker Grell.
Lately? Yeah, swarms, for the most part. You either have the exact thing you need, or you're screwed. That's poor design, IMO, and encourages cookie-cutter party design.
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anything that is evil and is or resembles a human child...."Come play with us Danny..."
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A Gazebo!
To me, in 3.5, it was stuff that dealt ability drain (though level drain was a close second). Didn't matter what it was, though incorporeal and high stealth made things that much worse. It was even more terrible if were relatively low level.
In Pathfinder, I'm not entirely sure.
Possibly one of the harder-to-keep-gone creatures. The Iachthavos comes to mind as others have stated.
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Anything with enough levels and Blasphemy
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Anything with enough levels and Blasphemy
You mean like an awakened half-fiend tyrannosaurus rex?
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Anything with enough levels and BlasphemyYou mean like an awakened half-fiend tyrannosaurus rex?
Ohh god... I want an excuse to use one now. Fun one is a half-fiend treant, nothing better then a plant with a chip on it's shoulder lol.
Now scary we have to talk mindflayer, I mean the things FLAY MINDS! Ohh and eat them.
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You mean like an awakened half-fiend tyrannosaurus rex?
Depends... is his visual acuity based on movement, and he'll ignore me if I just stand still? If so, I'm not worried!
6 paladins, each with Shield Other cast on another one of them, and selective channeling.
I want to do this!
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You mean like an awakened half-fiend tyrannosaurus rex?Depends... is his visual acuity based on movement, and he'll ignore me if I just stand still? If so, I'm not worried!
Grant's theory was bunk, if it had recently eaten anything the size of a goat or larger it just generally wouldn't be interested. Lol see if anyone else remembers that quote.
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Grant's theory was bunk, if it had recently eaten anything the size of a goat or larger it just generally wouldn't be interested. Lol see if anyone else remembers that quote.You mean like an awakened half-fiend tyrannosaurus rex?Depends... is his visual acuity based on movement, and he'll ignore me if I just stand still? If so, I'm not worried!
"I'm a vegetarian..."
Mite Witch
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Grant's theory was bunk, if it had recently eaten anything the size of a goat or larger it just generally wouldn't be interested. Lol see if anyone else remembers that quote.You mean like an awakened half-fiend tyrannosaurus rex?Depends... is his visual acuity based on movement, and he'll ignore me if I just stand still? If so, I'm not worried!
Also, according to the material, that trait came from the frog dna used to fill the gaps.
