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<blockquote data-quote="Lord_Blacksteel" data-source="post: 5152379" data-attributes="member: 53082">Alright I like what I see so far so I'll be a little more specific. My encounter areas are using +0 to +2 for most battles but as the big bad in my 1st level area I'm using the ubiquitous Young White Dragon. Not too tough but it should cap things off nicely.I have a series of areas of escalating levels that the group will pass through ending up at 10th or so when they &quot;storm the gate&quot; to open up the big bad guy's castle. I want to make the Gate Boss a Beholder, so we're looking at a lvl 13 controller vs a 10th lvl party. It seems like it would work to me but I haven;t run much yet in 4th, so I am open to advice.Within the castle I expect the party to hit 11th and start their Paragon path before they meet the final boss. They might even be 12th depending on whether I add another level to the castle or not. I would really like to use a Dracolich for this as it ties in very well with the background, but the MM version is a Lvl 18 solo, so I'm concerned that he might be a little too much for them, but I do want it to be a big fight. Is a DracoLich (possible downlevelled a bit) a reasonable match for a 5- man party at 11th or 12th level?I'm sketching this in now so I can do some foreshadowing and hinting during the climb through Heroic. It will be quite a while before they get this far. I know there are some options for level adjustments but I'm unsure of how much adjusting might be needed to make this threatening but not an automatic TPK.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord_Blacksteel, post: 5152379, member: 53082"] Alright I like what I see so far so I'll be a little more specific. My encounter areas are using +0 to +2 for most battles but as the big bad in my 1st level area I'm using the ubiquitous Young White Dragon. Not too tough but it should cap things off nicely. I have a series of areas of escalating levels that the group will pass through ending up at 10th or so when they "storm the gate" to open up the big bad guy's castle. I want to make the Gate Boss a Beholder, so we're looking at a lvl 13 controller vs a 10th lvl party. It seems like it would work to me but I haven;t run much yet in 4th, so I am open to advice. Within the castle I expect the party to hit 11th and start their Paragon path before they meet the final boss. They might even be 12th depending on whether I add another level to the castle or not. I would really like to use a Dracolich for this as it ties in very well with the background, but the MM version is a Lvl 18 solo, so I'm concerned that he might be a little too much for them, but I do want it to be a big fight. Is a DracoLich (possible downlevelled a bit) a reasonable match for a 5- man party at 11th or 12th level? I'm sketching this in now so I can do some foreshadowing and hinting during the climb through Heroic. It will be quite a while before they get this far. I know there are some options for level adjustments but I'm unsure of how much adjusting might be needed to make this threatening but not an automatic TPK. [/QUOTE]

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