41 minutes ago, JBento said:At which point you take out boars and put in bears. If your argument is "PCs get better once they rank up, and the enemies that challenged them don't challenge them anymore", then yeah, I agree. I'm not throwing run-of-the-mill kobolds at 10th level PCs in D&D, either.
Try putting in sharks. I was reading the mantis DLC sourcebook and dear holy kami those things are terrifying.
I mean, not exactly common*, but terrifying. An attacker with a ring rank of 4, martial skills of 3, and a Damage 6, Deadliness 10 attack against any bleeding target would be scary even if facing one didn't almost by definition mean you were unarmoured and fighting in entangling terrain....
* A friend of mine who served in the merchant navy says: "I don't have a phobia of sharks, because that means an irrational fear. I'm not scared of sharks attacking me in the alley behind the bar, for example. When in the water off the west coast of Africa with a cut on my ankle, I have a bone-deep, entirely rational, bloody terror of sharks ."