NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nasma" data-source="post: 612989" data-attributes="member: 4505">The following is just a random idea I had to keep the defenders on their toes.  My apologies if it has already been suggested, already been done, or has some obvious flaw that I have missed.Have a relatively easy group attack the party just before they leave for the comfortable castle, or whatever its exact name is.  When the attackers are all dead the regular looting reveals that the leader has a magical sword.  This sword is high enough in magical power to be kept, but not powerful enough to arouse suspicion, maybe +3.  All in all exactly what the leader of the attackers would be expected to be carrying.What the defenders don't realise is that the sword is actually a high level wizard who has shapechanged into this and has had nystal's undetectable aura or similar cast silently and stillly (?) on him to complete the illusion.  When, hopefully, he is taken into the castle, and into the wall that the party uses to stop attackers getting in, he drops himself off the dwarf, or whoever, that is carrying him and casts a silent, stilled improved invisibility so that he will not be found when the shapechange's duration wears out.  He then waits for the group to go to sleep, secure in the knowledge that nothing can attack them in their safe haven.The method that he uses to attack the party could be anything, from a few symbols of hopelessness carefully carved around the place to something as simple as a meteor storm along with a few fireballs, thus taking advantage of the fact that the entire group is stuck in such a small area.  Or perhaps a symbol of sleep, just in case anyone wakes up and then a few delayed blast fireballs.  The wizard could even planeshift out before the mayhem begins, leaving the party to nurse their wounds and fight off a few summoned creatures.Their would be quite a few oppurtunities for the plan to fail of course, from the person identifing the sword succeeding in his, undoubtably hard, will save, to the dwarf searching everywhere for his lost weapon, though I suppose that could be fixed with an illusiory sword taking the wizard's place.Again, please point out the flaws in this plan that I have missed, or suggest any ways in which it could be improved.</blockquote>

Verification