
Dragonchess Player |

With Iron Gods ending, I've spent the last week or so playing around with an idea for "Continuing the Campaign" if the PCs don't make an effort to coopt/rehabilitate/take over the Technic League. If they ignore the organization, then someone else will take over:
Abrax-Vul, NE Male serpentfolk magus (hexcrafter) 7/cleric (separatist; Abraxas; Magic and Serpent domains; variant channeling - poison) 3/mystic theurge 6
Cybertech: cybernetic arm w/implanted +1 distance sonic pistol (+3 w/greater magic weapon, cast as magus), cybernetic legs, dermal plating mark III, frenzychip
Gear as an 18th-level PC

Mark Hoover |

Mite with levels in Witch. They have a vermin familiar. With the Familiar Folio options its a Mauler and Medium size. With Vermin Empathy she's got a small horde of other vermin exactly the same. There's no way to target the familiar.
Mites in general. Throw in some levels in Slayer; they're a rogue/ranger combo riding amid a pack of giant spiders. Tack on levels in oracle since they've got decent Wis; with the Nature mystery they've got a bonded mount.
The nice thing about all this verminy goodness is that the mite gets to use their Move action on worthwhile stuff like reloading their poisoned bolts in their crossbow. In the meantime most vermin have a Climb speed and some even have Fly. These things can be anywhere on the battlefield, make their attacks and then chill while your low to mid level fighter tries to figure out how to unload all that melee damage he has.
Finally, vermin empathy technically works on swarms. That's right... SWARMS....

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An Ethereal Filcher (remember them? Another awesome toy Wizards of the Coast apparently won't share?) with Rogue levels. Remember, they can shift between the Ethereal and Material Planes at will (more or less), and have 4 good arms...now picture every one of those arms holding a dagger, and with the know-how to perform Sneak Attacks.

SmiloDan RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32 |

Dragon barbarian! Rage and increase breath weapon DC. Might need that Moment of Clarity rage power....
Maralith arcane trickster? Greater invisiblity + tons of swords = sneak attack Cuisinart. Or ninja and Vanishing Trick. Or both...
But I think lower level examples are more fun. I just need to think of some....

Ian Bell |

Tacking antipaladin levels onto things can be a lot of fun. Keep a close eye on the CR of the resulting monsters. Since antipaladin levels don't count as a key class for anything, if you go based off of those results you can occasionally end up with some stuff that's way too powerful for the CR.
Redcaps are a fun choice for it. The succubus is a particularly absurd option thanks to the super high charisma.

Zourin |
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It's not so much a monster, so much as an oddity item.. but it's a critter.
A short backstory, I had a VERY paranoid rogue. Virtually every round, turn, room, bend, or five foot step, he would roll perception. Out of sheer boredom of this, I simply responded "You see a rock."
Everytime he rolled and there was nothing to see, i'd simply tell him "You see a rock."
He became suspicious, and leery. "Is this the same rock?"
"You can't tell."
He whips out a wand of Detect Magic.
"Is it a magic rock?"
"You can't tell."
A few hours later. "You see a rock."
"Is it the same rock?"
"Maybe."
Now he's completely weirded out that he's being stalked by this tiny rock.
This is enough to freak out just about any player by itself, but he was a good sport and one of my better players. I decided, on the fly, that it was a tiny, amorphous metal-based critter with the ability to imbue metal items with the properties of other metals or low level enchants that it has touched before.
Suffice to say, he was thrilled to have a new pet rock.