Problematic Bard

Quick fun question for yall: What are your top 3 favorite enemy types to use in games? And do your players know to expect them?

My top 3 favorite enemies are always:
1) Undead
2) Regular humans or humanoids
3) Plants

My players know there will always be undead somewhere lol

Oct 13, 2018 at 11:44pmWeb
Show threadProblematic BardOct 13, 2018
It's a little ironic because I prefer to play PCs / use Npcs that use a lot of mind effecting abilities, which don't work against undead Or plants, so I punish myself a lot of the time
Show thread​ Riley ​Oct 14, 2018

@Miru My favoured enemies tend to be:
1)Humanoids
2)Dragons
3)Beasts

My current group of players probably don't know that, cuz I've only been GMing for them for a little while, but after more than one adventure that should end up pretty clear. 😂​

Show threadQuinnOct 14, 2018

@Miru 1) Abberations
2) Outsiders
3) Constructs

I think my players can expect the first two, constructs are a bit more low key but I do love them.

Show threadLarge Print Edition (Delia~!)Oct 14, 2018

@Miru my favorites (although i've never properly GM'd before) are

1. Outsiders (especially devils in PF, but i'd love to do aliens one day)
2. Abberations
3. regular ol' Humanoids

if i get to GM a session or two, uh, i guess get ready folx

Show threadQuinnOct 14, 2018

@drolltergeist @Miru

Powerful synergy.

Show threadLarge Print Edition (Delia~!)Oct 14, 2018
@Quinn @Miru well, uh, y'know, ah, man's the real monster, buddy
Show threadQuinnOct 14, 2018

@drolltergeist @Miru

Not all Humanoids.

Show thread​ Riley ​Oct 14, 2018
@drolltergeist I've always wanted to run a campaign where the party are just helping one side of the Gith or the other fighting in the Astral plane. It can be very science fantasy, and Gith are very alien.
Show threadLarge Print Edition (Delia~!)Oct 14, 2018
@artisticfennec perfect, especially because it's a reason to have the PCs fight at least one mind flayer
Show thread​ Riley ​Oct 14, 2018
@drolltergeist It's very like, space fantasy too, since the Gith inhabit the Astral plane. Travelling the Astral planes on an Astral Vessel. Just really cool.
Show threadLarge Print Edition (Delia~!)Oct 14, 2018
@artisticfennec i'm imagining a gummi ship from kingdom hearts and loving it
Show thread​ Riley ​Oct 14, 2018
@drolltergeist I love it. I've always pictured it as large sailing ships, floating through the silvery mist of the astral plane, catching the mist in their sails.
Show threadLarge Print Edition (Delia~!)Oct 14, 2018
@artisticfennec that's so cooool
Show thread​ Riley ​Oct 14, 2018
@drolltergeist Thank you!!! 😊​Now I just really wanna run it. But I'm already in the midst of a plot.
Show threadLarge Print Edition (Delia~!)Oct 14, 2018
@artisticfennec oh that's the worst. i'm working on a thing for our players' pathfinder campaign that involves my favorite part of PF: the Plane of Shadow
Show thread​ Riley ​Oct 14, 2018
@drolltergeist Ooh, that sounds really fun. Never had a chance to play pathfinder yet, but anything titled Plane of Shadow. 😂​ If I get bored of the current campaign I can always have an alien abduction with the Gith stealing them away to help in their efforts.
Show thread​ Riley ​Oct 15, 2018
@drolltergeist I forgot! Tome of Foes actually has images of these ships!
Show threadThorgrit AnvilvorgeOct 14, 2018

@Miru Hm, with my group, the risk is always if I include sapient characters, they'll try to find their motivations and help them rather than mindlessly reducing their HP to 0 in order to get XP and loot. That said,

1. Undead
2. 'Monster' humanoids (orcs, goblins, kobolds)
3. Humans/dwarves/elves

Show threadProblematic BardOct 14, 2018
@thorgrit
I'm a huge fan of trying to solve humanoid problems (I don't know how deep my players are on that, but they don't care a lot for their exp or loots) so I feel that.
Show threadRafu 🇮🇹 Oct 14, 2018
@thorgrit @Miru Why is that a "risk" I wanna know?
Show threadSpace·Time Will TellOct 14, 2018
@thorgrit @Miru That's the kind of risk I like around my table :)
Show threadMike RaichelsonOct 14, 2018
@Miru
1. Humans/humanoids (typically with difficult or contradicting goals to theirs or their employers).
2. Aberrations (especially if they let me merge in some Cthulhu mythos stuff which most of my players never actually pick up on).
3. Umm...I don't know.
Show threadMike RaichelsonOct 14, 2018
@Miru I have had players from multiple campaigns before say that they know I'm always going to make some sort of "standard enemy" seem really sympathetic (orcs driven to pillage because the elves destroyed the ecosystem of their land), and "standard interactions" into things that are troublesome (high elves attached to a caste system that makes them serious jerks to anyone that doesn't fit into that cleanly).
Show threadCygwulfOct 14, 2018
@Miru
1. Kobolds. Seriously fun when you play them like the cagey devious little b@@@ they are supposed to be. Never a toe to toe fight with then.
2. Undead. I can get my smart scary villan and shambling horde all at the same time
3. Fae. Glamours and illusions galore
Show threadSpace·Time Will TellOct 14, 2018

@Miru 1) An enemy who's directing everything safely from the comfort of a tea house.
2) A drunk family member, who you you have to deal with without violence, regardless of how much violence they target at you.
3) Well, a family member in general.

I'm as nasty as @Cygwulf's kobolds :)

Show threadCiarán O'BrienDec 7, 2018
@Miru Humans mostly, I've a big "the greatest monster was us all along" streak. Also a Big Fan of eldritch gribblies that don't always obey the cause/effect mechanics players come to expect, especially if there are good rules for fear and sanity. Faeries in Changeling, Demon Lord or Exalted are Lovecraft tier horrors and I love them for it.
Show threadGorathDec 7, 2018
@Miru
Undeads 😄 And then others. I also generally love to use humanoids combined with their magical monsters as enemy on games. 😄
Show threadTomoDec 7, 2018

@Miru
1. Normal people in abnormal situations.
2. Selfish people
3. Just plain bad people.

I never understood the thing with monsters. In my games there are always people behind monsters. People use them as a strange kind of weaponry.

Except when there are dragons. But in my games dragons are a force of nature. Fighting them is like fighting wind. Sure you can, but it's pointless.