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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 8396375" data-attributes="member: 463">Ran my 5th session of current 4e campaign on Wednesday, up against the first real BBEG, and the PCs lost! There were 4 PCs (3 players, Fighter Wizard Warlord, & the buildmeister Wizard player doubling up playing the backup Slayer) at level 4. The Brawler Fighter wearing Black Iron armour & Vryloka Inspiring Warlord both had good Necrotic resistance. They were somewhat drained after fighting through 6 easy-ish encounters with the BBEG's undead minions, before meeting the level 6 Solo Controller Vampire Lord (292 hp!) and his 2 minion 10 elder vampire spawn. The minions didn't last long but they gave the VL a round or so of distraction, as intended. I'd rebuilt the VL* from 2008 standard to 2010 MM3+ norms, so his defences & regeneration were reduced somewhat, but his damage was well up; at worst he could do three minor action mace attacks for d8+7, standard action necrotic ray attack 2d10+6 (worth doing despite the opp atts) he could create Desecrated Ground for 1d6+6 necrotic damage & self healing 10 at the start of each round; he could potentially blood drain for 28 dmg & heal 28, but by far his biggest power was domination gaze on the Slayer. After about 3 rounds he'd taken 230 damage without doing very much, but then he got the measure of the PCs, began Action Pointing, dominating the Slayer and turned the buildmeister's fell creation against her <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> - the fight went on ca another 5 rounds but the dice went cold for the players; with the desecrated ground & some blood drains the VL's damage never went over 230; by the time the Slayer & Warlord were down for good and the Fighter & Wizard fled the VL 's damage tally was down to 197. It was a close fight but them's the breaks.*spoiler [ISPOILER]Barthus from Scepter Tower of Spellgard[/ISPOILER]</blockquote>

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