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Old 03-02-2018, 02:03 AM   #45
johndallman
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Default Re: Difficult monsters

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Originally Posted by Kromm View Post
Of course, sometimes the most difficult monsters are the lamest ones with good tactics. Has any one actually tried having delvers deal with many times their number in orcs who set traps, shoot from behind barricades, and have a few shamans who've prepped the battlefield with Glue, Grease, etc. as Castle Doctrine (Monsters, p. 7) proposes? It can be nasty.
Not in DFRPG. I did it in low-level D&D a bit too effectively: a character on his first trip as an adventurer who was rescued, barely alive, from under a burning pitch-soaked net decided that adventuring was too dangerous and went back to working as a tavern bouncer.
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