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Here are a hundred Encounter Activities for those malevolent mutts: the horrible Hellhound. Pretty situational monsters, with a very unusual HD spread. Perhaps they come in...
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Those ghastly Ghouls! Feel free to tune down the gore if it’s not to your tables’ liking or if it doesn’t mesh with your style of play. I kind of prefer to make mine gross and...
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Tremble with terror from the relentlessly encroaching Gelatinous Cube! I was awfully surprised I was able to come up with enough for a d100 table for these Monsters (seeing as...
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Undersea adventures can be somewhat difficult to adjudicate, but should your game find itself beneath the waves, here are one hundred Encounter Activities for any Merpersons...
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Another Humanoid with their own language! Ogres provide a good challenge to lower-level parties, and in droves they can make for some fun encounters. I often wonder what the...
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This is my fiftieth Monster, and what better way to celebrate the half-century mark than scuttling back to give the Giant Centipede their due! Being only about a foot long...
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These overlap quite a bit with other automata like Golems or gotcha! Monsters like Gargoyles, but with a few interesting differences: First each is specifically aligned, which...
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One Hundred Hydra Activities! The first twenty can also be used to give your many-headed monster a little extra oomph since the mythology associated with them can sometimes...
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Dunsian Gnoles almost seem like they slot better as Bugbears, so I often use Gnoll statistics as a stand in for a variety of different Beast Men, sometimes even...
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How about an encounter table for our fire-fearing forest friend, the Treant? Just as with Dryads, it really works wonders to pair them with some kind of specific species. If...
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By my math, I’m now officially 33.3% through! Here’s a table for the Vampire! Draining two-levels with a touch is something every hardened Player should fear, and it’s vital to...
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Rapidly encroaching on a third of the way through! I’ll celebrate with a monster I enjoy: Gargoyles. It should go without saying to anyone familiar with them that Gargoyles can...
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Another back-fill entry: Our scuttling, snapping friends the Giant Crab!
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Giant Fishes! I decided to do five tables of twenty for these ponderous piscine opponents. Worthy of many an exaggerated tale of the one that (thankfully) got away, hopefully...
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Decided it might be best to combine Djinni and Efreeti since there’s quite a bit of overlap in these types of Encounters. While I always enjoy getting to flex my brain in order...
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I’m not sure if it was the tactics and advice outlined in B2 that first made me decide to go with a more militarily focused Hobgoblin, but I’m pretty sure it was the depiction...
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Still hopping around the list a bit. Just in time for Leap Day, here’s a table for those batrachian behemoths: The Giant Toad!
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To celebrate the completion of a quarter of the monsters, I decided to skip around a little bit for a change of pace. Here are one hundred Encounter Activities for some more...
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Four for the price of one (well, technically twelve if you count all the types), this entry provides statistics for the different power levels of Elemental (Lesser,...
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Driver Ants! These Myrmicine Monsters are easy to model, as Ant Behavior is something most people are familiar with. Although thankfully not present in the hundreds of...
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I’m temporarily skipping over the regular Dragons for now. Their role as titular Monsters means I need to do them proper justice, and I’m still deciding if I want to do an “All...
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Oh, dear do I love a good Doppelgänger-based encounter. They’re purpose-built for infiltrating the factions of both friendlies and foes alike with their complex, duplicitous...
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Circling back to plug one a few holes that have cropped up in the list: Here’s a d100 Encounter Activity table for a frequent-flier dungeon pest of mine: The lowly and skittish...
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Here’s a Monster entry that hasn’t aged too well. It really shines a steady light on the whole “armchair history buff” roots of the hobby. Dervishes are quite obviously based...
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Poor Polyphemus! I always felt a little bad for that blinded bloke. It does seem that most Monster Manual entries for the Cyclops can trace its origins to this mythological...
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Puddings, Oozes, and Slimes, oh my! I had a ton of fun helping Alex with creating some tables for his excellent Hex Describe for procedurally generating these types of...
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When I’m populating Random Encounter Tables for Swamps, Bayous and Marshes, Alligators and Crocodiles definitely receive pride of place on the lists. Both as moody set-dressing...
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Another flying foe, Cockatrices overlap a bit with the baleful Basilisk, but are a little less fearsome. Fortunately for clever Players, it takes physical contact (not just a...
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Those horrid Chimeras! I always must fight the urge to pronounce them is “Chim-uh-ra” instead of the correct “Ky-mer-a.” There ought to be a word for words you only learned...