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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 4588446" data-attributes="member: 812">That battle (which was actually MORE complex in real life than I was able to present here) is one of my shining moments as a GM. It took two full sessions to play out and everyone was utterly gripped throughout.Elena's player was actually playing Kimiko Torokan, so I didn't know how that was going to go. I was running Shang and Madame Yuek and Farouk (and there were a couple of other parties that I've left out of this telling). The statblock for the Demon Goddess at the start of the battle was massively intimidating, but to my surprise the Blood Council took her out of the fight immediately (I actually expected them to go after Shang first, but Elena's player had a real hate on for Madame Yuek by this point), so she never got to use any of her earth-shattering abilities (like, for example, the ability to deal 40 points of Constitution damage to everything within 800' as a free action). The emerald staff acted like a Mordenkainen's Disjunction, severing her connection to the Shadow Realm so she A) couldn't use any sorcery, and B) gradually had all her necromantic power stripped away from her until all that was left was her original mortal self.She's now basically like a 10th-level aristocrat (with perhaps another 10 levels of the Unbelievable Bitch prestige class, but those don't count).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 4588446, member: 812"] That battle (which was actually MORE complex in real life than I was able to present here) is one of my shining moments as a GM. It took two full sessions to play out and everyone was utterly gripped throughout. Elena's player was actually playing Kimiko Torokan, so I didn't know how that was going to go. I was running Shang and Madame Yuek and Farouk (and there were a couple of other parties that I've left out of this telling). The statblock for the Demon Goddess at the start of the battle was massively intimidating, but to my surprise the Blood Council took her out of the fight immediately (I actually expected them to go after Shang first, but Elena's player had a real hate on for Madame Yuek by this point), so she never got to use any of her earth-shattering abilities (like, for example, the ability to deal 40 points of Constitution damage to everything within 800' as a free action). The emerald staff acted like a Mordenkainen's Disjunction, severing her connection to the Shadow Realm so she A) couldn't use any sorcery, and B) gradually had all her necromantic power stripped away from her until all that was left was her original mortal self. She's now basically like a 10th-level aristocrat (with perhaps another 10 levels of the Unbelievable Bitch prestige class, but those don't count). [/QUOTE]

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