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<blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 1495060" data-attributes="member: 1331">A smart Thayan seldom wastes resources. Why destroy a useful set of tools, when you could instead turn them to your own purposes?Assuming he knows the PCs are coming, I'd have him prepare to incapacitate rather than kill them. Prepare spells like hold person. Equip the minions with nets and saps, or instruct them to grapple en masse. Use poison or magic to reduce their ability scores to 0. (Scorpion venom works very well on low-Str wizards.)Once the PCs are all incapacitated, the BBEG can slap them all with lesser geas, forcing them to go and assassinate some Thayan rival of his. If they succeed, he comes out ahead. If they're killed or captured in the attempt, he doesn't even care, because they weren't his people anyway.Of course, if the nonlethal methods don't seem to work immediately, the BBEG should be prepared to kill off the one or two most dangerous PCs. He can dump the bodies out the side door with their geased friends.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AuraSeer, post: 1495060, member: 1331"] A smart Thayan seldom wastes resources. Why destroy a useful set of tools, when you could instead turn them to your own purposes? Assuming he knows the PCs are coming, I'd have him prepare to incapacitate rather than kill them. Prepare spells like [i]hold person[/i]. Equip the minions with nets and saps, or instruct them to grapple en masse. Use poison or magic to reduce their ability scores to 0. (Scorpion venom works very well on low-Str wizards.) Once the PCs are all incapacitated, the BBEG can slap them all with [i]lesser geas[/i], forcing them to go and assassinate some Thayan rival of his. If they succeed, he comes out ahead. If they're killed or captured in the attempt, he doesn't even care, because they weren't his people anyway. Of course, if the nonlethal methods don't seem to work immediately, the BBEG should be prepared to kill off the one or two most dangerous PCs. He can dump the bodies out the side door with their [i]geas[/i]ed friends. [/QUOTE]

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