Let’s face it – one of the scariest monsters to face for a large part of your adventuring career is trolls. They’re large, they have high physical stats and worse of all – they regenerate 5 hit points per round. This sort of near-invulnerability tends to lend itself to a level of fearlessness that is [...]
I’m sure many of you have seen the movie Pirates of the Caribbean. For the few of you that haven’t, the main “bad guys” are a pirate crew that have been damned by an evil curse, turning them all into some form of undead. Normally, they look like regular people. But when they’re exposed to [...]
The Wiz just posted another Monster Makeover aimed at the Beholder. As a PC, your first encounter with beholders are nothing short of terrifying. As a higher level PC, beholders aren’t as big a deal and quickly become a quick path to treasure. Take a good read through this monster makeover as it identifies and [...]
Wizards has been posting a series of articles titled “Know Your Enemy”. There’s been six published thus far. The articles give a quick blurb on 4 or 5 different monsters along with the appropriate Knowledge checks to find out various things about them. When we encounter “new” monsters in games that I’ve played the first [...]