I am playing with five level six characters. Two are spellcasters, the rest are melee. I need to find some good monsters for them to fight in-between bosses, and am not sure what I should use. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Without any actual information about your campaign/adventure setting, I'm more than likely to give you misplaced advice on what specific creatures to populate your encounters with. That said, I might suggest that the Monsters utility here on DDB can be filtered by the current environment that your party is in. For example: Forest. You can also narrow your search to limit the CR, Size or Type of creature that you may eventually use. Doing this as a method of seeing what might be found in a particular environment can help give Inspiration to your encounters.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” - Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad
For frustration, make a medium encounter but only use flying ranged monsters (can't be more specific as said above, we don't know where they are!). 4 melee characters will have to work out a plan, whilst the magic users will not want to blow spells on a low difficulty encounter!
Have them being stalked, always just hearing something behind them. After a lot of worry and searching, they find a magical kitten who can turn invisible when he wants to play, who has been stalking them for fun.
How in-between are we looking for here? Do you want to soften them up before a boss, or are these encounters going to be between long rests (and so have no lasting effect on the adventurers)?
Stirges. They are annoying, flying little SOBs. Make sure that the PCs take damage when the attached stirge is hit. And the possibility of damage when the stirge is missed.
Gelatinous cube. Can be placed most anywhere.
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I am playing with five level six characters. Two are spellcasters, the rest are melee. I need to find some good monsters for them to fight in-between bosses, and am not sure what I should use. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Without any actual information about your campaign/adventure setting, I'm more than likely to give you misplaced advice on what specific creatures to populate your encounters with. That said, I might suggest that the Monsters utility here on DDB can be filtered by the current environment that your party is in. For example: Forest. You can also narrow your search to limit the CR, Size or Type of creature that you may eventually use. Doing this as a method of seeing what might be found in a particular environment can help give Inspiration to your encounters.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” - Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad
For frustration, make a medium encounter but only use flying ranged monsters (can't be more specific as said above, we don't know where they are!). 4 melee characters will have to work out a plan, whilst the magic users will not want to blow spells on a low difficulty encounter!
Have them being stalked, always just hearing something behind them. After a lot of worry and searching, they find a magical kitten who can turn invisible when he wants to play, who has been stalking them for fun.
How in-between are we looking for here? Do you want to soften them up before a boss, or are these encounters going to be between long rests (and so have no lasting effect on the adventurers)?
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Stirges. They are annoying, flying little SOBs. Make sure that the PCs take damage when the attached stirge is hit. And the possibility of damage when the stirge is missed.
Gelatinous cube. Can be placed most anywhere.