One of my favourite boss battles I ran for the Murk campaign, a giant murk-corrupted elk. The party first encountered in the forest at day and spent a while following it around to a magic pool kind of thing. They stuck around to watch the sunset with it and then… uh oh, oh no, it transformed. 2020-02-09
The thing had a lot of parts, as you can see, and I can’t quite remember how it all worked. I think the tentacles were all one-hit kills but would regenerate after a turn. Unless removed with fire. I was proud of how the players handled it. They were overwhelmed at first but, luckily, the elk never left the safety of the spring it was on and the party could escape. They came back the next day for a rematch and had an amazing victory thanks to the patterns they learned.
There were two ways to kill it, reducing either the body or the core to 0HP. The body was a kind of, reliably easy enough to hit but had lots of HP. The core was heavily defended but, if they could get through to it, didn’t have much HP at all. This whole set up was inspired by how large bosses are handled in the Grandia series and I think breaking bosses into parts really solves a lot of issues with legendary actions etc. If I ever DM again I def want to play with this design philosophy.
This is what happens when you get a bunch of dk lovers in one server.
Based on that one post that I’ll link back later when I’m not stuck at work lol. You know the one
@tevruden @lorthemar-theron your boys are fun to draw(rassian voice) ….. i can’t do it.
A dragontaur boy! Part centaur part dragon, you know?
I’ve got a few more on the way that I had a lot of fun with.
fu2 server was talking about dragon genders and that “gender transed” dark souls image was mentioned so I made this quick edit and thought “oh fr tumblr would probably also enjoy this” so here we are. free to use however you want if you so please
Aurumvorax
Once a proud and fearsome red dragon, he was stripped of his power and his wings and made to “do good”, while sealed within a small, plushie body… thankfully, he can summon a vestige of his former glory! …even if it’s very restricted…
He’s an angry little guy, prone to ranting when he feels disrespected, but he’s ultimately harmless. He also can’t bring himself to admit that he’s kinda enjoying being such a little guy people like to pick up and hold. While he still has evil draconic tendencies, the vessel is enchanted to make him follow the Code of Conduct, meaning he can’t act on his impulses.
In PF2e, Aurumvorax is a toy poppet summoner, whose dragon eidolon is himself!
With the new update, I think we need to bring this back
half a decade later and i need to bring this back AGAIN
You’re getting dangerously close to this again @staff @photomatt
