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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 906031" data-attributes="member: 259">Another strategy against this bad boy:  empty a wand of melf's onto him.  That's 200d4 points of damage:  if 5% of the charges miss, it's 190d4 points of damage.  On average, that's 475 points of damage, enough to take it out nicely.Expensive, but a 5th-level wizard could take out a colossal scorpion single-handedly with a wand of melf's and a single fly spell, as long as the scorpion was in the desert and had nowhere to hide.  Heck -- a 1st-level wizard equipped with a wand of melf's and a potion of fly would do the trick.Edit:  Even cheaper:  get two wands of magic missile at 3rd level each.  Use one up, and use ten charges from the second, to do 420 points of damage on average, enough to take the scorpion down.  With the potion included, that's 3,450 gp worth of equipment to take out one monster, kind of spendy; on the other hand, this is a technique that allows a single first-level character to take out a CR 11 creature at no risk to herself.    It is completely reasonable for even a seventh-level PC to have these two wands and access to a flying scroll; if the PC creates the wands herself, the cost of the battle is only 1,350 gp and 40-odd XP.CR ratings aren't reliable, I think, because the battle's context is so important.  As you can see, what looks like a tough monster when you're a fighter is embarrassingly simple if you're a flying wizard.Daniel</blockquote>

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