The "Legend" Boss Fight
Hello! This blog post is based on some advice I gave someone on the 24XX-Cord pertaining to boss fights. When I was done writing my 2000 characters, I thought, "Hm, maybe I should just make a blog post about this." So, that's what I've done. Enjoy! HP - Trending Downwards Ever since I read the 16 HP Dragon , I was enthralled by the elegance of a monster with as little statistics as possible. However, we can go lower. For example, when I ran Prison of the Worm Queen by Chris McDowall (which I am still running an extension of, if you read my Part One play report ), the big boss of the module has around HALF of the 16 HP Dragon, having 8 HP and Armor 2 (basically -2 to damage, if you haven't read Into the Odd or Electric Bastionland , which, um, what're you doing here if so?). In my GMing career, I used to think of a boss as having 100+ HP and tons of attacks. About midway, I refined my range to 16 HP. Very recently, I lowered it to even fewer. Now, I think I...