5 Foot Step wrote on Jun 24
th, 2014 at 1:44am:
What did you expect? Dragons and Demi Liches for every trash mob?
Dunno, maybe some creativity, or failing that, flick through the 10,000 DnD monsters published over the last 20 years or so?
Epic wolves/rats/spiders etc are just lame.
The dire bears I didn't mind - I can imagine really tough bears. More werecreatures - they can plausibly be any level.
I would have preferred vorpal rabbits to rats, if only for the laugh factor and the nod to Monty Python.
Looking for high level challenges, what about Githyanki, an Aboleth hive, Chimera, Hydras or humanoid spell casters (but make them more challenging than the current 2 spells and unlimited SP)?
Liches and Death Knights are always great at evoking an "oh shit" response from players.
Various automatons like golems could be made more powerful and be plausible.
You could spend an hour in the old monster manuals and easily have a 5 page list that you could start culling down.
Instead we get epic animals, kobolds everywhere and harpies re-used in E3BC - because when I saw that it fit right in the genre. I get there are budget constraints, but they have to inject something new?