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<blockquote data-quote="Phoebasss" data-source="post: 8069776" data-attributes="member: 7025876"><p>How do you feel about legendary actions? Because my inclination is usually to give legendary actions to boss characters, and to give them special abilities that make the players work for their victory. I could do that by drafting a level 1 wizard, selecting an archetype, and going up the levels, and giving them legendary actions as well, but I think that would get me something not as interesting for the PCs to play into. A lot of my PCs are very well read and recognize almost every spell from the PHB and Xanathar's just by effect description. So it's going to provide a better &quot;wow&quot; effect if this archmage has some powers they haven't seen before. Something he invented while living up in his tower doing his thing. Utilizing only abilities the PCs are already aware of is a surefire way to bore my PCs. They've read every piece of unearthed arcana and spell-like effect on a monster stat block. Sometimes its good for NPCs to have something unique, even if its something the PCs can't do because the system doesn't support it.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Phoebasss, post: 8069776, member: 7025876"] How do you feel about legendary actions? Because my inclination is usually to give legendary actions to boss characters, and to give them special abilities that make the players work for their victory. I could do that by drafting a level 1 wizard, selecting an archetype, and going up the levels, and giving them legendary actions as well, but I think that would get me something not as interesting for the PCs to play into. A lot of my PCs are very well read and recognize almost every spell from the PHB and Xanathar's just by effect description. So it's going to provide a better "wow" effect if this archmage has some powers they haven't seen before. Something he invented while living up in his tower doing his thing. Utilizing only abilities the PCs are already aware of is a surefire way to bore my PCs. They've read every piece of unearthed arcana and spell-like effect on a monster stat block. Sometimes its good for NPCs to have something unique, even if its something the PCs can't do because the system doesn't support it. [/QUOTE]

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