Now, I need all your ideas on how to turn braxat even more deadly. How you use them in your campaign?
My player are hunting 3 Braxat in the Windbreak Mountain west of Nibenay. They must capture one alive and bring it in Nibenay for the Gladiatorial game (If they succeed, I plan to have a strike party of veiled alliance attacking to free the braxat while the PC are traveling with it in the city to the coliseum.:D )
Now, I need all your ideas on how to turn braxat even more deadly. How you use them in your campaign?
You could give it a single class level in barbarian or fighter maybe psychic warrior. Barbarian gives you rage whie fighter gives you a feat and heavy armor. Braxat/Fighter1 wearing fullplate armor has an AC of 28.
Add in some combat gear perhaps a barkskin potion or a wild talent that lets you use level 1 powers and you could get that AC into the low to mid 30s. A barbarian braxat could have a potion of bulls strength and when it rages thats +8 strength with the potion for +4 to hit and another +6 damage. You could also give it a better weapon than a great club.
Braxats also have 17 intelligence and a wizard or psion could be an idea. As a non associated class it only adds +1 CR for every 2 level you give it so a Braxat/Wiz12 or Braxat/Psion 12 is only CR18.
Any Braxat with class levels could also use the elite stat array or roll for scores so while an average Braxat has 31 strengh an elite one could have 38 not counting items like gauntlets of ogre power or bulls strength potions and effects. 46 (+17 to hit/+25 damage) strength if its a barbarian raging and has a bulls strength potion.
I need role-playing and tactic idea, not dice-rolling idea.
Btw, I play second edition.
I need role-playing and tactic idea, not dice-rolling idea.
Have them throw darts and use haste on them. 1d3 damage but you can throw 6 of them for the braxats strength bonus.
Braxat with dart? wtf?
Darts were the best weapon in 2nd ed if you had a strength bonus to abuse. At level 1 you could throw 3 of them or 4 if you were specialized in them IIRC.
Gauntlets of Ogre power + weapon spec is +8 damage with them. A mid level fighter could throw 5 of them per round or 10 if hasted. If they all hit thats 5d3+40 damage. Darts done more damage than longswords. Twinked out I think you could get it up to 7-8 darts per round and it was even better ifyou had combat and tactics and were a grand master in darts as you got an additional attack and +3 to hit and damage on top of your strength damage.
You could give it a single class level in barbarian or fighter maybe psychic warrior. Barbarian gives you rage whie fighter gives you a feat and heavy armor. Braxat/Fighter1 wearing fullplate armor has an AC of 28.
Add in some combat gear perhaps a barkskin potion or a wild talent that lets you use level 1 powers and you could get that AC into the low to mid 30s. A barbarian braxat could have a potion of bulls strength and when it rages thats +8 strength with the potion for +4 to hit and another +6 damage. You could also give it a better weapon than a great club.
Braxats also have 17 intelligence and a wizard or psion could be an idea. As a non associated class it only adds +1 CR for every 2 level you give it so a Braxat/Wiz12 or Braxat/Psion 12 is only CR18.
Any Braxat with class levels could also use the elite stat array or roll for scores so while an average Braxat has 31 strengh an elite one could have 38 not counting items like gauntlets of ogre power or bulls strength potions and effects. 46 (+17 to hit/+25 damage) strength if its a barbarian raging and has a bulls strength potion.
this is one of the reasons why i am glad i have shelved my 3.x crap. Braxat can not and should not be able to wear armor. it would be like having a thri-kreen in armor.
Btw, I play second edition.
I need role-playing and tactic idea, not dice-rolling idea.
do you have the updated info on the Braxat or the original info from the 1st DS box set? i am at work and don't have it on hand, to see, but i think the new braxat info has some differnt psionic abilities than the Original one.
as afar as RPing issue's, concidering the braxat can only be dmg'd by metal (although i would allow dasl in my campain), a loose braxat would probably wreal all sorts of havoc as it tried to make its way to the main gate for escape, and i am sure it wouldn't think twice before using it's breathweapon either in this situation, and it's full array of psionic powers.
and although unlikely as it is, you could always have a few braxat show up to try an drescue it?! :D although they are very solitary creatures, but you never know ;)
Darts were the best weapon in 2nd ed if you had a strength bonus to abuse. At level 1 you could throw 3 of them or 4 if you were specialized in them IIRC.
Gauntlets of Ogre power + weapon spec is +8 damage with them. A mid level fighter could throw 5 of them per round or 10 if hasted. If they all hit thats 5d3+40 damage. Darts done more damage than longswords. Twinked out I think you could get it up to 7-8 darts per round and it was even better ifyou had combat and tactics and were a grand master in darts as you got an additional attack and +3 to hit and damage on top of your strength damage.
They sure were. That must be why Wizards can't use them in 3.x. /grumble.
Allowed wizard weapons from the SRD
club, dagger, heavy crossbow, light crossbow, and quarterstaff
My player are hunting 3 Braxat in the Windbreak Mountain west of Nibenay. They must capture one alive and bring it in Nibenay for the Gladiatorial game (If they succeed, I plan to have a strike party of veiled alliance attacking to free the braxat while the PC are traveling with it in the city to the coliseum.:D )
Now, I need all your ideas on how to turn braxat even more deadly. How you use them in your campaign?
I am not sure what tactics the braxat may prepare for your PCs. Since the party is hunting the braxats and not the other way around, the braxat may not be ready for the PCs. That does not mean you could not spice up the encounters in some ways.
Maybe as the PCs are stalking one of the braxat it is stalking its own prey. Could be that the braxat was after something dangerous like a gaj or wyvern, that comes to investiage and joins the fight between the PCs and the braxat. Or it could be something less aggressive but still dangerous. A pack of wild crodlu that panics causing a stamped.
Or a tribe of humanoids, say tareks shares territory with the braxats. The tareks offer the braxats gifts of food and such to placate them, so that the braxat never hunt the tareks. But at the same time the tareks like having the braxats there as a threat against anything else that may move into the area. So the tareks will not like the idea of the PCs taking away "their" braxats.
You could vary the braxat's psionic abilities, so each has different abilities.
In 2nd edition, are they strong enough to throw boulders down on the PCs from a high perch? I don't remember.
Could one be a shaman with simple clerical abilities?
Of course at the end of the day, I have no idea how your PCs are going to bring the braxat back to a city with that acid breath weapon able to destory anything they are bound up in. But that the PCs' problem. :D
I am not sure what tactics the braxat may prepare for your PCs. Since the party is hunting the braxats and not the other way around, the braxat may not be ready for the PCs. That does not mean you could not spice up the encounters in some ways.
Maybe as the PCs are stalking one of the braxat it is stalking its own prey. Could be that the braxat was after something dangerous like a gaj or wyvern, that comes to investiage and joins the fight between the PCs and the braxat. Or it could be something less aggressive but still dangerous. A pack of wild crodlu that panics causing a stamped.
Or a tribe of humanoids, say tareks shares territory with the braxats. The tareks offer the braxats gifts of food and such to placate them, so that the braxat never hunt the tareks. But at the same time the tareks like having the braxats there as a threat against anything else that may move into the area. So the tareks will not like the idea of the PCs taking away "their" braxats.
You could vary the braxat's psionic abilities, so each has different abilities.
In 2nd edition, are they strong enough to throw boulders down on the PCs from a high perch? I don't remember.
Could one be a shaman with simple clerical abilities?
Of course at the end of the day, I have no idea how your PCs are going to bring the braxat back to a city with that acid breath weapon able to destory anything they are bound up in. But that the PCs' problem. :D
an animal like muzzle.
They sure were. That must be why Wizards can't use them in 3.x. /grumble.
Allowed wizard weapons from the SRD
club, dagger, heavy crossbow, light crossbow, and quarterstaff
Even if they could the rate of fire rules have been changed anyway so they're still no good. IIRC one of my games had a dart grandmaster in it who wore a girdle of giant strength and had a haste spell going. 18 attacks per round or so for 1d3+10 or 13 or something ridiculess. PCs weren't happy.