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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8173496" data-attributes="member: 42856">Well, in case we no longer get answers over the week-end, as a though exercise and saying that a defeat of the Bastion of Law wouldn't count against the OP, here's a setup...The Bastion is somehow a LE follower of Bhaal, god of murderers. In exchange for his elevation to 20th level of Sorcerer granted through divine intervention, he vowed to take lives of random people to praise the Dark God. True to his word, as befit any sorcerer aligned with Mechanus, he prepared to accomplish his vow by taking the lives of passer-by on the road to Candlekeep, a place of no uncertain significance to the Dark One.In order to achieve his goal, who could make him confront beggars or kings, he needed to take extreme precaution. On the day before, fasting and napping ritually all the day, he cast Extended Wished Mind Blank on him and his simulacrum (2 SP) and Extended Etherealness on his simulacrum (so it would last 16h, until noon on the next day). Then he'd sleep and in the morning, go and sleep at the back of a horse-carried wagon for 4 hours, in order to create 16 SP worth of 1st and 2nd level spell slots.Around 10am, he'd arrive in the village and see Binky on the horizon. His strategy to off the day's quarry would be to use deception to pass, with the DMM simulacrum, for a couple of newlywed going to Candlekeep on their honeymoon. They'd ask Binky for direction, making sure they have his undivided attention as he explains that they really need to hold the map so the north is up...Then, on round one, the DMM would cast Harm, for a potential 14d6 damage (CON saves DC 19 for half), then the Bhaal cultist himself (having readied an action) would <s>Twin</s> Wish for a Sunburst spell (12d6 and blind, CON save DC 17 for half), then his simulacrum would drop out of etherealness and Twinned Desintegrate the star writer (10d6+40 or nothing, DEX save, twice), all the while praising Bhaal and chanting to consecrate their heinous attack against litterature. That's an average of  <s>283  </s>241 damage if all saves miss and no resistance is triggered and no contingeny, counterspelling or death prevention effect is triggered (but hey, chances are good the Deathstalker of Bhaal would meet a mere Level 1 Commoner on a road in the Candlekeep rural area. With some luck, it could kill a character.I am betting that such an opening, the more potent I can see to the best of my ability, will end in the defeat of ALL the NPCs described so far, irrespective of which of them is met first on the road. Edit: I was over-eager... Sunburst can't be twinned, because it doesn't target a creature but an area.</blockquote>

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