The Gaming Den

Here's dinner. Farfetch'd Small Magical Beast, CR 1/2 (CR 1 when wielding a leek) 14 11 11 2 9 6 1d6 (3 HP), Init +0, Speed 20' Fly 30' (Average) BAB/Grab: +1/-1 -Bite +4 (1d3+3) or Leek +5 (1d4+5) AC: 11 (+1 Size), Flat 11 Touch 11 Fort +0 Ref +0 Will +1 Feats: Weapon Focus (Leek) Skills: Sense Mot...

Juvenile Copper Dragon MM1/SRD. "CR 9", level 11 in Tome, sure. Hey it's only Medium so it doesn't have "fitting in a tavern" problems! But it has "True Dragon" problems and doesn't have an alternate form. Alchemic Dragon This is inspired by the Tumbaga Dragon in PF (a...

Juvenile Cobalt Dragon Dragon Magazine #356, page 25. "CR 9", level 11 in a Tome game. Do I need to reiterate the bit where dragons have loads of good hit dice, and good stats? Insidious Influence Cobalt has a lot of interesting properties. It's magnetic. It is in some really blue compoun...

Juvenile Hex Dragon Dragon Magazine #343, page 38. "CR 8", level 10 or so. These ones are actually a bit easier to fit in the world due to Alternate Form and Graceful Flight, but there's still a lot of the normal dragon stuff going on. Accursed Wyrm Hex Dragons have some cool powers where...

Juvenile Blue Dragon MM/SRD. CR "8", level 10 in a Tome-level game, probably 11-12 otherwise. It's a Large dragon with 15 great hit dice and great ability scores, obviously there are problems. Also we're dealing with the Dragon Age problem. Desert Ghost We're actually leaning into the ill...

Okay, so we're going to have some True Dragons. Originally I didn't want to do this because "Yeah you keep advancing in age categories as a dragon, that's how they advance. Except it's in sudden chunks, based on age and not adventuring. So even the obvious thing doesn't actually work." But...

Warforged Titan Eberron Campaign Setting, page 302. CR 8, level 9. It's Huge. It's a Construct. It doesn't have thumbs. It barely has sentience. Don't worry, we're fixing some of these. Giant Mech I LOVE GIANT ROBOTS! YOU LOVE GIANT ROBOTS! WE LOVE GIANT ROBOTS! CHICKS DIG GIANT ROBOTS! This actual...

This one also took a lot of time and effort but it appeals to me for reasons. Munagola (Executioner Devil) Pathfinder, here . CR 11, level 11 9 (see below). Brutal Paragon The Munagola has your standard Devil stuff, and then after that they have- wait, did my notes disappear? Okay, so uh, they have ...

This week, the party explore upwards a little, met by some shouting: it turns out that a Marut - the enforcers of the finality of death - is hovering around a keep, demanding the undead in there be destroyed! So the party briefly conversed with them, before instead conversing with the devil inside w...

I spent too much time on this but I enjoyed myself so there we go. Red Abishai Fiendish Codex 2, page 110. CR 8, level 9. Regeneration that needs Good aligned weapons/spells to beat. Super Tiamat Red Abishai are usually either wardens and torturers in the Nine Hells (to be fair, most people there ar...

Seel Small Magical Beast, CR 1 11 14 15 2 16 6 1d8+2 (6 HP), Init +2, Speed 20' Swim 40' BAB/Grab: +0/-4 -Gore +3 (1d4) AC: 16 (+1 Size, +3 Natural Armour, +2 Dex), Flat 14 Touch 13 Fort +2 Ref +4 Will +5 Feats: Weapon Finesse (B), Ability Focus (Headbutt) Skills: Hide +10 Special Attacks: Headbutt...

Lilitu Fiendish Codex 1, page 43. CR 12, level 14. Abyssal Sponsor The Lilitu isn't just an upgraded succubus. She has piles of great abilities - all of her ability scores are good, there's good Spell Resistance, four sting attacks with reach and poison, some good spell-like abilities, Cleric spell...

Ravid MM1/SRD. CR 5, level 5. The animation ability as written is way too annoying to have "on screen" all the time, so they should only be played in games of level 6+ where they take a level of the following class to reign it in. Animator Ravids like to float around the place almost aiml...

Drider SRD/Monster Manual. CR 7, level 8. Blood Seeker If you want your Drider to continue casting spells like a Sorcerer, Wizard or Cleric, then here's what you do: take levels in one of the prestige classes that progresses Sorcerer, Wizard or Cleric casting (or indeed take levels in the base clas...

The party have cleared out the dungeon now. They discovered a temple of bones, dedicated to the spider queen Haachama, and somehow managed to communicate with her drow followers, despite the followers being ardent believers in the language of Haachama. This was a bloodless conversation, and whereas ...

Onix Huge Magical Beast [Earth], CR 6 26 18 19 3 11 4 6d8+24 (51 HP), Init +4, Speed 50' Burrow 30' Climb 30' BAB/Grab: +4/+24 -Bite +8 (2d6+8) and Tail +5 (2d8+4 plus Grab) AC: 24 (-2 Size, +12 Natural Armour, +4 Dex), Flat 20, Touch 12 Fort +11 Ref +9 Will +2 Feats: Power Attack, Great Fortitude,...

Krabby Tiny Magical Beast, CR 2 15 10 11 4 5 5 2d8 (9 HP), Init -1, Speed 10' Swim 15' BAB/Grab: +2/-4 -2 Claws +6 (1d3+2) AC: 20 (+2 Size, +8 Natural Armour), Flat 20, Touch 12 Fort +3 Ref +3 Will -3 Feats: Improved Natural Attack (Claw) Skills: Perform (Dance) +2 Special Attacks: Water Gun, Metal...

Yeah, spells and spell-likes.

Back on Track (The game was a bit short this time, because I started late due to voting.) The party went back to town so that one person could be raised, and the other reincarnated in a burst of flame, now as more of a fire-demon sort of thing. They rested up, and then went back... where they disco...

A very special episode We all enjoy some fun and games here, but sometimes the fun stops and there's a serious side. And that happens when people fail Fortitude Saves. So anyway, the party finished desecrating the temple of Subaru, then looted the rest of the destroyed town, before letting the evil...

Magnemite Tiny Construct, CR 2 5 10 11 8 13 16 2d8 (9 HP), Init +0, Speed 5' Fly 15' (Clumsy) BAB/Grab: +1/-10 -Slam +3 (1d3-3) AC: 20 (+2 Size, +8 Natural Armour), Flat 20, Touch 12 Fort +5 Ref +3 Will +1 Feats: Great Fortitude, Weapon Finesse (B) Skills: Search +4, Disable Device +4, Spot +6 Spec...

So I'm running the new game, and it started as a joke but I realised that the ideal system for how deities work is simply "a group of vtubers", and this makes a good template for the divine side of things in every game. Some of this is simply "how about the designers draw upon the soc...

The party managed to broker a sort of peace deal between the three communities, and made their way out, with no intention to visit them again. They instead checked out the nearby town that had been ravaged by the shockwave and dust storm. There were a great many giant bugs that attacked, spitting ac...

GULPIN DEEZ NUTS! Gulpin Tiny Ooze, CR 1 13 10 15 4 15 10 1d10+3 (8 HP), Init +0, Speed 10' BAB/Grab: +0/-8 -Slam +3 (1d3+1) AC: 13 (+2 Size, +1 Natural Armour), Flat 13, Touch 12 Fort +4 Ref +0 Will +4 Feats: Improved Toughness Skills: Survival +6 Special Attacks: Yawn, Drool Special Qualities: Po...

The Wildshape feats basically work the same as the way Wildshape works in your game (some iteration of the core rules, or "replace your character sheet" or whatever), except they give you access to different types. But no spellcasting from the creature. So if Wildshape in your game uses th...