Multi-part bosses

One common complaint about 4th edition is that combat can be a bit of a slog. Solos, in particular, are notorious for this problem. But sometimes, you just really want a big, climactic fight against one really nasty enemy.
What’s a DM to do? As always, we take out the one tool every DM should know [...]

Setting Seeds: After the Forges

The world of Thrae is not like most others. It is a barren land, still on fire from a war generations past, where the living huddle in small enclaves to hide from extermination.
When mortal artificers designed the first creation forge, it was heralded as a triumph of magical ingenuity. For the first time, sentient beings [...]

Friends & Foes: Warforged Octopus

Warforged Octopus

Description
The light from two ominously-glowing reflect off the assorted metal plates covering this creature’s bulbous head. Long, cable-like tentacles trail behind it.

Warforged Octopus
Level 7 Elite Soldier

Large Natural Magical Beast (aquatic, living construct)
XP 600

Initiative +8
Senses Perception +5, darkvision

HP 166; Bloodied 83; see also warforged resolve

AC 25; Fortitude 23, Reflex 21, Will 18

Saving Throws +2

Speed swim [...]

Friends & Foes: The Warforged Lifeboat

Fuller Murdoch wasn’t born with that name. In a sense, he wasn’t born at all, actually. though you probably shouldn’t try to convince his parents of that. Fuller, you see, is a warforged, but one in an unusual predicament. In addition to his warforged personality, he also has the mind of a former comrade-in-arms permanently [...]

Races with Flavor: Gods of the Warforged

In the far realms beyond the stars, there exists an entity of entropy and decay. Ever-hungering, the thing known as Unicron devours entire planes of reality. Luckily for most, even its awesome power is unable to cross the expanses that seperate the worlds of logic and causality from its realm of madness and impossibility. Unable [...]

Friends & Foes: The Forgotten Soldiers

While traveling in the Mournlands, the players come across a troop of warforged standing motionless. The warforged are fully aware, but have been standing in the same spot since the mourning (which they survived, but do not remember) since they lack orders.
A male-personality warforged named Hammer is the leader of the troop, and his standing [...]