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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 672515" data-attributes="member: 2">Well, it's a combination of excessively optimized twinkiness (I'm not kidding here) and good tactics. I'm got a fun NPC with a prime ability score jacked higher than I'd normally allow, which is going to create an interesting (but not necessarily deadly) encounter.Hmmm. You folks have been so kind to me, I should return the favor. Just remember: this stuff is secret from my players, so please no alluding to it elsewhere on the boards.So please meet Nulloc Toadbringer, drow mercenary and absolute Genius!  He's not just smart; he's eerily, scarily smart, a combination of a tome and some magic and a whole lot of natural talent.  Nulloc, unfortunately, is an egocentric bore.  He dreams up improvisational plans to actions that his enemies haven't even considered yet, then boasts about them to his enemies in the middle of combat.  He bemoans the fact that the rest of the world is so stupid, and yet can't seem to stop congratulating himself for his own successes. He loves reassurance, worship, and reinforcement of what he considers his own best traits.As a transmuter, he makes it a point not to kill his foes. Instead, he generally polymorphs them into large white toads and then captures them in sacks, taking them out to play with and torture whenever he feels the need for some company.  So what we have here is a twinked out drow-elf wizard who is a master of tactics and dirty tricks, who is probably going to get the drop on our heroes while his whole spell array is active, and boasting three chained polymorph other spells (3 x 15 people per spell) with pretty high DCs.  By the end of the surprise round, I suspect that most of the group will be toads, and I know of only one PC for sure who can shapeshift out of it.  I think the group can still kill him - a lot of them have spell-like powers that should still function - and the victory is going to be sweet for them. Nothing's more fun than killing a big jerk.  Ribbit.  <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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