Brainstorming: Level 5 Solo Primordial

[Keenberg]

In my group's previous session, the pc's boarded a ship and fought and defeated a group of 3 NPCs which will be recurring enemies. In the next game I want to pit the party against the ship's owner. Here is my vision of her.

Irena Swiftwater is a wealthy and sharp-witted woman who has gained a fortune as the leader of the Merchant's Guild of Fallcrest. She passes herself off as an average businesswoman, reader of fortunes,and crafter of minor charms. But she constantly must hide her alter-ego from the public.
She is the direct descendent of powerful primordials. She is somehow exerting an extremely unheard of level of control over the chaotic nature of her primordial heritage... until now!

• Flight - I'll be giving her flight and a fly-by attack, but she'll probably just be casting.
• Spells - I want to give her various elemental spells to complement her primordial nature.
  • Fire
  • Lightning/Thunder
  • Cold
  • Would necrotic be reasonable for a primordial?
• I want to make her level 5 since she's being pitted against 4 character who just hit level 3. Could I go even higher without ensuring a TPK?
• Adds - as a solo I think she should be able to spawn minions.
  • Living Sparks and Ball Lightnings with dangerous auras which allow for many small attacks. Any player in the aura is subject to an attack at the beginning of the minion's turn and at the end of their own turn if they have not moved out of the aura.
    • How fast should she spawn these, and in what numbers to not be OP?

These are my preliminary ideas. Please feel free to help me develop actual powers for them. Or suggest some ideas of your own!

 

[Mesh Hong]

A level 5 primordial solo you say?

I have taken a look at your description and designed an appropriate threat that includes most of your wish list. It has been a long time since I have created such a low level creature so you will need to give it a sanity check vs. your group but hopefully it should give you some ideas.

For the record I have given her MM1 HPs with MM2 defences (my own personal preference), if you wanted her a little easier to dispatch then you could reduce her HPs to 184 / 92. Also her type is skirmisher but she is really a skirmisher / artillery / controller, but I don’t see a problem with that for a plot solo.

Irena Swiftwater Level 5 Solo Skirmisher
Medium Natural Humanoid XP 1,000

Initiative +6 Senses Perception +9
HP 232; Bloodied 116; see Spark of Life, Summon Sparks
AC 19; Fortitude 16, Reflex 18, Will 18
Resist 5 acid, fire, lightning, cold, poison
Saving Throws +5
Speed 6, fly 6 (clumsy)
Action Points 2

Dagger Slash (Standard; at-will)
Attack +10 vs. AC; 1d6+4, this attacks deals 2d6+4 damage against a
target granting Irena combat advantage

Elemental Fury (Standard; recharge ) ♦ fire, lightning
Primary target; attack +10 vs. AC; 1d8+4 damage; hit or miss Irena may
shift 2 squares and make the following melee attack against a secondary
target; attack +8 vs. Reflex; 1d10+4 fire damage; hit or miss Irena may
shift 3 squares and make the following ranged attack against a tertiary
target; attack +8 vs. Will; 1d6+4 lightning damage; on hit target is slowed
(save ends)

Fly By Attack (Standard; at-will)
Irena flies 6 squares and may make the following attack at any point, this
movement does not provoke opportunity attacks for flying away from the
target; attack +10 vs. AC; 1d10+4 damage; on hit secondary attack +6
vs. Fortitude; on hit target is knocked prone and dazed (save ends)

Elemental Bolts (Standard; at-will) ♦ fire, cold
Range 10/20; primary target; attack +8 vs. Reflex; 2d6+4 fire damage;
secondary target attack +8 vs. Fortitude; 2d6+4 cold damage

Thunderous Blast (Standard; recharge ) ♦ thunder
Burst 3; enemies only; attack +8 vs. Fortitude; 1d10+4 thunder damage;
on hit target is pushed 3 squares and knocked prone

Spark of Life (Free) ♦ summon, when first bloodied
When first bloodied Irena summons 4 Living sparks (see separate stat
block), these appear in any free square within burst 2 and act on initiative 5

Summon Sparks (Move; recharge ) ♦ summon, while bloodied only
While bloodied only; Irena summons 2 Life Sparks, these appear in any free
square within burst 5 and act on initiative 5

Unmaking (Standard; encounter) ♦ psychic
Area burst 3 within 15; enemies only; attack +8 vs. Will; 3d6+4 psychic
damage; hit or miss creates a zone, any enemy zone this new zone
overlaps is dispelled; all enemies entering or starting their turn inside the
zone take 3 psychic damage; minor action to sustain the zone

Alignment Unaligned Languages common
Skills Bluff +10, History +11, Insight +9, Streetwise +10
Str 12 (+3) Dex 15 (+4) Wis 14 (+4)
Con 10 (+2) Int 18 (+6) Cha 17 (+5)
Equipment rune scribed dagger, leather armour


Life Spark Level 3 Minion
Small Elemental Animate (lightning) XP 0 (summoned)

Initiative 5 Senses Perception -2
Static Field (lightning) aura 1; Any creature entering or starting its turn
inside the aura takes 2 lightning damage
HP 1; a missed attack never damages a minion.
AC 17; Fortitude 13, Reflex 16, Will 15
Immune lightning
Speed 4 (hover)

Buzzing Slam (Standard; at-will) ♦ lightning
Attack +6 vs. Reflex; 4 lightning damage

Overload (Free) ♦ lightning, on death
On death Life Spark explodes in a shower of sparks; close burst 1; attack
+4 vs. Reflex; 4 lightning damage; on hit target is dazed (save ends)

Bobbing About
Life Spark naturally hovers and cannot be knocked prone

Alignment Unaligned
Str 3 (-3) Dex 17 (+4) Wis 5 (-2)
Con 5 (-2) Int 3 (-3) Cha 14 (+3)

Please note that while Irena is immune to the Life Sparks lightning attacks it is still possible for her to be dazed by their Overload attack. Clever PCs might realise this and use it to their advantage.

Anyway I hope this gives you some ideas.

 

[Omertalvendetta]

I know... isn't Mesh Hong the bomb... I wanna be like him someday... I'm trying to make monsters everyday, and get some practice to perfect such a talent....