Rejected Nordlondr Folk Templates

[corwyn]

Originally Posted by mburr0003

Take the Shirtless Savage Lens from DF Denizens Barbarian and slowly build to DR 5/12/14 (5 Hard Shell; 12 Everything, Tough Skin; 14 Crushing, Tough Skin).

I'm curious as to how you (or anyone here) would design encounters to challenge beasts like that without potentially one-shotting others with double digits less DR.

[DouglasCole]

Originally Posted by corwyn

I'm curious as to how you (or anyone here) would design encounters to challenge beasts like that without potentially one-shotting others with double digits less DR.

Armor divisors are *excellent* for this

[corwyn]

Originally Posted by DouglasCole

Armor divisors are *excellent* for this

That is true. Also, Dehydrate and Frostbite are great against my double-digit/20+ hp barbarian and wrestler. Unfortunately, it's also by far the easiest way to hit my high parry martial artist who isn't quite so virile.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by corwyn

I'm curious as to how you (or anyone here) would design encounters to challenge beasts like that without potentially one-shotting others with double digits less DR.

Just have more than one enemy; let them engage the siege beast while a horde of doomchildren swarm around.

[sjmdw45]

Originally Posted by corwyn

I'm curious as to how you (or anyone here) would design encounters to challenge beasts like that without potentially one-shotting others with double digits less DR.

Electric Jelly, Crushroom, Alfar Warrior (or any spellcaster with mind control spells really), pit traps or fights on a city wall 10 yards high or a cliff 10 to 30 yards off the ground, Jelly (a.k.a. Gelatinous Cube), horde pygmies or giant spiders or murder hornets or any monster that can do eye stabs with good accuracy.

[Anders]

Originally Posted by corwyn

I'm curious as to how you (or anyone here) would design encounters to challenge beasts like that without potentially one-shotting others with double digits less DR.

Wrestling, wrestling, wrestling. Can't fight if I tie you into a pretzel.

[mburr0003]

Originally Posted by corwyn

That is true. Also, Dehydrate and Frostbite are great against my double-digit/20+ hp barbarian and wrestler.

Yup, FP attacks that ignore armor and eyeshots are really the only things someone with that much armor fear. Okay Deathtouch, but it's a Barbarian so that's not as frightening what with all the HP they probably have... and that generally means the clothey came into touch range...

Originally Posted by Anthony

Just have more than one enemy; let them engage the siege beast while a horde of doomchildren swarm around.

Divide and conquer! My meatthug Barbarian was all about playing tag with the big guys while the rest of the party dealt with the mobs other foes.

Inversely when it was Boombrats, my meatthug tended to insult them (AOE Agro Pull!) and get them to swarm him and draw their vicious knives and explosions away from the more fragile party members. Because the average roll on 3d+3 was not enough to penetrate his armor and their explosions were laughable.

Originally Posted by Anders

Wrestling, wrestling, wrestling. Can't fight if I tie you into a pretzel.

Unfortunately Barbarian meatthugs tend to also be wrestlers. I mean not always, and the extra heavily armored Tankstrocity Knight might just have forgone Wrestling entirely...

[sjmdw45]

Originally Posted by mburr0003

Yup, FP attacks that ignore armor and eyeshots are really the only things someone with that much armor fear. Okay Deathtouch, but it's a Barbarian so that's not as frightening what with all the HP they probably have... and that generally means the clothey came into touch range...

Plus falling damage, constriction attacks from Crushrooms/etc., spectres, jellies, electric jellies, eyes of death, toxifiers, mind control, and possibly ice weasels.

[Harald387]

Originally Posted by corwyn

I'm curious as to how you (or anyone here) would design encounters to challenge beasts like that without potentially one-shotting others with double digits less DR.

"Mind control them and let the party figure it out", says the person who wrote the end boss for Hall of Judgment.

[sir_pudding]

Krabbadýr, and let the best cancer win.