THE ONLY WAY TO KILL THIS THING IS TO STAT IT
>>46234826
NO!
>"If it has stats, then we can kill it!"
THAT is the powergamer's motto!
To stat the enemy is to begin to know the enemy!
If you know the enemy and you know yourself, then in one hundred battles you shall not lose a single one!
>>46234826
>KILL THIS THING
Why? I don't see any reason to. They're just dancing around in the water.
>>46234826
Okay
-10 HP
>>46235087
There are heads in the bag. She's a voodoo specialist and that "dance" ties your body to the heads in the bag. Next thing she does is submerge them and watch you drown in fresh air.
Finally! higher resolution footage of the Japanese Tsunami Monster.
Its tom bombadil out for his monsoon shopping.
Size/Type: Large Magical Beast
Hit Dice: 5d10 (27 hp)
Initiative: +3
Speed: 20 ft. (4 squares), fly 60 ft. (poor)
Armor Class: 14 (+1 size, +3 Dex), touch 14, flat-footed 11
Base Attack/Grapple: +5/–1
Attack: Bite +9 melee (1d4–2 plus petrification)
Full Attack: Bite +9 melee (1d4–2 plus petrification)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Petrification
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision
Saves: Fort +4, Ref +7, Will +2
Abilities: Str 6, Dex 17, Con 11, Int 2, Wis 13, Cha 9
Skills: Listen +7, Spot +7
Feats: Alertness, Dodge, Weapon FinesseB
Environment: Temperate plains
Organization: Solitary, pair, flight (3–5), or flock (6–13)
Challenge Rating: 3
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 6–8 HD (Small); 9–15 HD (Medium)
Level Adjustment: —
>>46234826
What sound does this being make?
>>46239430
>OKI OKI OKI oki oki oki OKI OKI OKI
To actually speak on OPs topic, I quite agree. As a GM, you don't need to stat every character, you can just make up relevant difficulties, dicepools and related stuff on the fly.
You can also encourage players to find different ways for players to kill adversaries than to engage them in battle. Drop a boulder on them, poison them, set up their rivals/authorities to do the job, etc. Unless the adversary is important to the GMs plot, they shouldn't even need to roll to see if the adversary dies.
"Rocks fall, everyone dies." can be used on the enemy too.
>>46239430
>swigidy swoogidy
>>46234826
that actually is sort of spooky
>>46235087
>>46242422
That river is over 8 feet deep.
>>46234826
>>46239321
Good idea. Since we should be pretty good at fighting owlbears by now, this should be an easy fight if we stat it as an owlbear.
>>46234826
Orphan, is that you?
>>46234826
Actually, that's an interesting idea for a quest: immortal bad guy wanders land, unable to be defeated because he stole his own metaphysical stat_allotment and the heroes have to go on a journey across multiple planes of existence in order to make him mortal again.
>>46234826
Er, what is that?
>>46245947
I think it could be a fey beast that prances along the shore. It waits for young people to play in the beach after dark, drags them into the water, and then dances on their heads until they drown. It mutilates its victims, collecting some grim trophy like finger or a foot, then places it in a bag that is carried with the monster at all times. It is said that the spirit can only pass into heaven once its bags are filled to the brim with viscera. For the sake of appeasing these monsters, villages by the coast will often chop up livestock and leave the remains at the beach as an offering.
They are typically reported skipping and hopping near beaches. Perhaps such fey are the vengeful spirits of revelers who died from carelessness.
>>46245947
Dark magician back passing though this fold of space. It has hollowed out it's own soul making it light as a feather so that it may run on water.
It's bags likely hold lumps of alien organic matter. The weight and consistency of such material helps to balance out the magicians own chi, giving it an anchor to our realm.
