More monster manual. Bugbears are sneaky assassins and spies for the elves, ergo evil cat people? (As it turns out, that’s what I settled on: Bugbears are cat people.
Perhaps I should tag them Person (or People) to indicate that *charm person* will work. Or will it? Does a list of “people” monsters help?
Also, what about monsters that can be played? If you do play a bugbear, can you gain levels? Like, you just start as a third level fighter and go from there? It doesn’t sound so bad!
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From the old G+ archives, way back: 2015-01-31.
Yesterday the three player characters befriended five drows, who were on the way to collect tribute from some gnolls. A discussion ensues whether they should join forces and attack the temple of Belphegor guarded by a fire giant, two salamanders, two fire mephits, 36 goblins and one goblin priest. The elf priestess was unsure. After fighting off ten shadows, however, her respect rose. There were 14 gnolls. Random encounters indicated that the party met 8 more gnolls and 13 bugbears on the way to the temple. Previous encounters had already established that the bugbears were acting as drow spies. The rest of the session was: FIGHT!! 🙂 I love it when two encounter locations and a few wandering monsters produce an interesting story.
From a comment on G+, same day:
I mostly remember Gnolls from that one podcast where one of the hosts played a gnoll and ate fallen foes or something similar. It felt very Nethack to me. 🙂
– Alex 2021-07-23 11:17 UTC