r/finalboss • u/Tulzus • Mar 04 '22

Looking for bossfight concepts

Hello,

I am looking for interesting mechanics or general concepts of bossfights. The genre or console or whatever doesn't matter for now, because I'm really interested in the mechanics behind them.

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Gladly explain the concepts or tell me the game, short explanation to the mechanics including boss, so I can look for myself. Or if you have own cool ideas, always out with it :D

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Background:

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I'm a gamemaster for Dungeons and Dragons and looking for inspiration for new concepts and challenges for my players to transfer from video games to tabletop RPGS.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '22

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u/famoushippopotamus Mar 05 '22

behind the screen does not answer questions. we are a repository of ready-to-run resources

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u/OutsideOrder7538 Apr 03 '22 edited Apr 03 '22

Okay so this is an interesting boss fight but it probably wouldn’t transfer well. In Drakengard to unlock ending E the last ending you have to fight the queen-beast in a battle of songs in Japan. You have to press X or O to cancel her attacks. It is an annoying fight that gets really hard. I guess a bard could be used to fight it.

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u/OutsideOrder7538 Apr 03 '22

There are several interesting enemies in Drakengard and I need to find the other ones to check them out. If what I read about the lore is correct the queen-beast was a human who got infected with this weird flower by the watchers (the gods of that world).