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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1228378" data-attributes="member: 151">You want a request?  Oh, I'll give you one. <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" /> I'm still waiting to spring the Fellsoul on my party (along with his accompanying band of temporary allies)...because this week, they're ready to strike against the Githyanki Queen herself.  They're battling their way through her palace, and have just finished defeating a bunch of beasties, including a Phane from the ELH. Here's the challenge, then.  I'd like the Queen to have an interesting ally for the PCs to face as they near her phylactery.  Perhaps the guardian of the phylactery itself.  My dilemma is that the queen consumes any Githyanki who grows strong enough (i.e. 17th level), which is a problem when the party isa group of 3 21st/3 22nd level characters.  The queen herself is a CR 25/26 encounter, but part of the design here is to wear the party down.  So finding a creature to challenge them either means making it a powerful undead monstrosity (i.e powerful gith with a template) which only works so well, because a templated 16th level wizard is STIL just a 16th level wizard, spell-wise; a construct (haven't done this yet) or a non-gith monster, usually an outsider ally.  What I need, then, is a powerful creature that can challege a group of this power level. How's that for a request? <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" /></blockquote>

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