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>implying my mom isn't Colossal size
Fiend Folios, friend.
I was actually planning to get that rulebook.
I think the first Folio is 3.0, but there are also Fiendish Codices, I guess? Maybe those would be better.
A Worm That Walks should do your thing.
Isn't a worm that walks usually a spellcaster, though? What edition is this?
Also, happy birthday IA.
Sorry, you're right.
...a worm that walks is one of the three overarching multi-campaign villains.
The other two being a balor and a lich.
When in doubt just slap 4-5 class levels on a monster. Or just throw in some mooks. Give an ogre some monk/fighter levels and a pair of kobold rogues to help him out and you can generally make things annoying for your players.
Addendum - if you really want your players to hate you, add a conjurer wizard to the previous trio. Have them toss out cheap summon monsters and terrain effects to make shit difficult for players, and maybe teleport them and some of the other baddies away when they look like they are losing.
If a lich is one of the big bosses, you could get some variety of death knight for this miniboss.
A really important thing is the "scary" factor. From an adventurer's perspective, a strong variant of undead or high-leveled kobolds won't be so scary.
If you don't think kobolds can't be scary you obviously have never read about Tucker's Kobolds. And that is part of the trick, they look like harmless little lizards, but with the ogre hitting like a freight train, them dealing out a ton of sneak attack damage and bouncing over the map and a wizard making it difficult to get around you have a fight that is actually challenging for your players beyond a monster that screams scary.
I'd suggest a beholder, but that might be too unoriginal to be creepy.
Kobolds are also really crunchy cooked with a wizard's Meteor Swarm and some BBQ sauce.
^A beholder is...really cheesy.
1 - your characters are around level 10.
2- using a direct damage spell, especially meteor storm. What the hell is wrong with you?
Oh, just take an atropal or something like that. I mean, an aborted god-fetus psychopath is creepy enough, right?
An Atropal is way too powerful for level-10 characters (going by base stats, at least). It would be pretty cool, though.
You can always try artificially lowering the monster's stats a tad, and/or removing some feats and special attacks.
I was going for "too powerful than the PCs", actually, but only slightly. An atropal is too powerful for that purpose: I was thinking 2-3 levels above the PCs.
Like they'd be chased around this enclosed space repeatedly, forced to run/defeat lesser monsters to get stronger until, just as they have the opportunity to be rid of said enclosed space, BAM! The monster comes out of nowhere, the PCs and monster have this big climactic showdown.
Props to whoever gets where I'm stealing this from.
^^ He could. It could be, like, the undead fetus of a lesser god or something.
^ Wouldn't an enclosed space that forces constant fighting leave them too little room to regenerate resources?
You have sustainable fighting and unsustainable fighting. Sustainable fighting is likely low-leveled stuff that can be dealt with without spells or healing items or such. Unsustainable fighting is when your party has to go all out and you expect half your party to be unconscious at the end but somehow pull out a win out of all that.
You can litter the path with lower-level battles that the players can deal with more easily.
Scheduling classes for next year is actually kinda fun.
Programmer gets a guy fired because she overheard him making dongle jokes with a friend, snapped a photo, uploaded it to twitter (without giving him any warning) and publicly shamed him, resulting in him being fired. The guy has three kids and a wife to worry about.
EDIT: I have removed all potentially offensive content from this post (I hope).
> using "feminist" as an insult
> ragefage
> "The only consolation is that the bitch was fired herself."
Reddit's thataway, dude.
Hmm, I didn't mean for it to come off that way, but you're right - that came off as remarkably sexist. Sorry about that. I'll go and edit it to make it more neutral.
Anyway, much as she horribly overreacted to the jokes the guys were making (and her blog post is kind of hilarious in the degree to which it treats the matter as srsbsns) I really don't think it's fair to blame her for the fallout. She reported the people to PyCon staff, who dealt with the matter appropriately, and then made a blog post explaining why she felt the need to do so. I doubt she wanted or expected the guy to get fired.
Should she have been self-aware enough to realize that it was going to explode? Yes, absolutely. But it's not her fault that the guy got fired, and the mountains of racist and sexist comments and death threats she's been getting on Twitter are much worse than anything she personally did. The fault here is with the corporate guys who decided that firing people over this was a reasonable course of action.
>"Anonymous has reviewed the situation and rendered judgment using their collective wisdom and experience"
How are you enjoying your /lgbt/, anon?
Also, it's hilarious how the companies pretend that they fired these employees on any other grounds than "negative impact on our company by association".
Plus the "who was worse off" is a useless red herring. SJW callout culture and the misogyny within the programmer community constitute two different issues.
>I hope this follows her around for the rest of her life.
No. Public shaming for minor shit is stupid, regardless whether or not it's a hilarious reversal. It's using a cannon on a gnat and it fosters the internet mob mentality of both SJW and MRA.
Kill corporations and the problem is gone. :P
Seriously though, some of the other guys and gals at Marks21 have great knowledge of the gender question, and I'll make sure to ask them what they think of this. I can't really form a solid opinion on all this yet but, for one, I don't like this Adria figure, she looks more like a corporate kiss-up than an idealistic activist to me - trust me, I am active in that scene, and I know a genuine activist when I see one - they are usually way more modest and less flowery and over-the-top in their rhetoric. Her blog post reeks of fakeness.
Can you tell by the pixels?