Hello. I am just wondering if anyone has advice about using beasts in DnD games, or making them more prominent and threatening towards the players. Maybe a small quest about stopping a beast from eating livestock or people? I just want a way to use animals in my setting.
At the least, such threats IMO, i.e. regular ole animals, are geared toward low level PCs. To make them more threatening, don't tell the players what the creature is, give it a theatrical description and let their imaginations work against them. :-)
Are you looking for story hooks so you can use them? I'm sure we can come up with some.
Are you feeling that they're too easy? Look for different statblocks. You can always rename them so they're fighting the statblock of a powerful creature but they're told that they're fighting a tiger or something.
Or are you after ways you can describe them so they seem more menacing?
If you're more specific, we can give more useful advice.
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The core problem with beasts as enemies is that they're nonsentient so they're unlikely to have clever plots or diabolical schemes. Fortunately, there is a simple solution: evil druids.
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Hello. I am just wondering if anyone has advice about using beasts in DnD games, or making them more prominent and threatening towards the players. Maybe a small quest about stopping a beast from eating livestock or people? I just want a way to use animals in my setting.
So what's stopping you? :D
At the least, such threats IMO, i.e. regular ole animals, are geared toward low level PCs. To make them more threatening, don't tell the players what the creature is, give it a theatrical description and let their imaginations work against them. :-)
What's the obstacle?
Are you looking for story hooks so you can use them? I'm sure we can come up with some.
Are you feeling that they're too easy? Look for different statblocks. You can always rename them so they're fighting the statblock of a powerful creature but they're told that they're fighting a tiger or something.
Or are you after ways you can describe them so they seem more menacing?
If you're more specific, we can give more useful advice.
Want to play D&D? Try the following resources first (each section withing vertical bars is a clickable link to find the resource).
|The free Basic Rules.|
|Some free short adventures| and |some more here too.| |Here is a series of encounters, some of which link together form a mini-adventure|.
They are mostly short adventures intended to be completed in one or two sessions (each session being a few hours long).
The core problem with beasts as enemies is that they're nonsentient so they're unlikely to have clever plots or diabolical schemes. Fortunately, there is a simple solution: evil druids.