Ajin Ra Baqa (pf2e, legendary vanth)

During Empty Graves – which is a pf1e adventure path I am playing/converting to pf2e I decided to take some Nimble rules for boss monsters and turned the vanth encounter into a boss fight (I have 7 pcs). Worked well. Here is the “solo” version of the Vanth. Vanth Creature 7 Medium Monitor Psychopomp Recall Knowledge DC 23 […]

How to be a BOSS as a D&D Monster

I read the Glatisant whenever it comes in each month, creating a backlog of “to read” material that I work through over the next month (or two). A recent post about boss monsters (powerful solo encounters for any edition of D&D but specifically talking about 5e) from Rotten Pulp was pretty good. I was writing […]

Xenomorph Queen Boss Fight (Grendelqueen)

Check out the rollable (and cleaner) version on World-Anvil. This was a great encounter, brutal attacks and the ongoing status effects really shutdown a lot of the PCs ability. But the PCs (a 8 man party of level 8-12) won in the end. No small amount of inspiration was also taken from the Tyranids. Pharsis, the EverqueenCR: […]

Pharsis the Everqueen

Named after a Xenoblade Chronicles X super boss but based on the alien xenomorph queen, my PCs took on one of Pharsis’ progeny – a juvenile broodmother. Was a great fight as the PCs had no idea what they were facing. I had no prepared anything and because I figured she was a juvenile version […]

Temple of Elemental Evil – Final Battle

In my 5e mashup of Temple of Elemental Evil (Reincarnated) and Princess of the Apocolypse, my PCs ended up having to face Olhydra and the Prophet of Water in the Water Node. I hand-waived a lot of the water node to get the PCs right to the battle; my plan/thinking/expectation was for them to explore […]

Marlos Urnrayle (Updated Boss Version)

In my version of ToEE/Princess of the Apocolypse, I have a party of 12 characters (7 PCs, with 5 henchmen/followers) which means they can railroad most default encounters in published material like Princess of the Apocolypse. Here is an upgraded version of Marlos the Maeder (male medusa) – WolrdAnvil Link. In my game, he ended […]

Rethiarius the Sentinel

As part of the Expedition to the Barrier Peaks campaign, my PCs took on their first boss. 8 PCs and 4 Henchmen/NPCs with an average level of 6. The boss was a Rubik-like cube robot/mechanical entity called Rethiarius. Corrupted by a creature known as a Telepath (a reskinned mind flayer, inspired by Prey 2017). The […]

Adimarchus/Phaeros (Boss Fight for 5e)

During the early days of 3.5e I ran the Shackled City Adventure Path. I and my players really enjoyed this first Adventure Path, however, one thing I never liked was the final boss fight with Admiarchus. The way the battle was designed and the way 3.5e combat rules work it ended up just being a […]

Vampire King Boss Fight (5e)

I built this for Curse of Strahd some time back but never got to use it as my PCs voted not to play Curse. I dug this up as my PCs as part of my Clash of the Titans campaign when they went to visit the Blood King as a Halloween adventure, and, of course, ended […]

Looking Glass Knight

Inspired by the Dark Souls 2 Boss. For a low-level party. LOOKING GLASS KNIGHT Large construct, unaligned Armor Class 20 (Chrome Plate and Mirror Shield) Hit Points 60 (8d10 + 16) Speed 30 ft. STR 16 (+3) DEX 11 (+0) CON 14 (+2) INT 11 (+0) WIS 11 (+0) CHA 15 (+2) Damage Immunity Lightning Saving Throws […]