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<blockquote data-quote="Chibbot" data-source="post: 4155258" data-attributes="member: 63856">I'm very much looking forwards to the extended survivability of villains in 4e. Also looking forward to their having neat things to do throughout combat.I recently ran the last encounter in a game I started a while back, culminating in Geryon (deposed lord of the 5th layer of <s>the abyss</s>Baator) being summoned to the material plane by various loyal servants, and the PCs taking him down. They were pretty low level and substantially over-treasured, but I didn't want to kill them in a single round of combat (Blasphemy at will at caster-level 25 against 10th level PCs will do that), so I swapped his stats around a bit. Doubled his HP and dropped his AC by 10, lowered his saves significantly, and used less of the 3.x monster design style of &quot;guy with feats and spells&quot; and played it more in the 4e monster design style of &quot;monster with cool monster-specific powers&quot;. In the end the PCs actually managed to kill him, but it was pretty close.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chibbot, post: 4155258, member: 63856"] I'm very much looking forwards to the extended survivability of villains in 4e. Also looking forward to their having neat things to do throughout combat. I recently ran the last encounter in a game I started a while back, culminating in Geryon (deposed lord of the 5th layer of [S]the abyss[/S]Baator) being summoned to the material plane by various loyal servants, and the PCs taking him down. They were pretty low level and substantially over-treasured, but I didn't want to kill them in a single round of combat (Blasphemy at will at caster-level 25 against 10th level PCs will do that), so I swapped his stats around a bit. Doubled his HP and dropped his AC by 10, lowered his saves significantly, and used less of the 3.x monster design style of "guy with feats and spells" and played it more in the 4e monster design style of "monster with cool monster-specific powers". In the end the PCs actually managed to kill him, but it was pretty close. [/QUOTE]

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