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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ErikSalaan" data-source="post: 1896189" data-attributes="member: 3157">Successful BBEG Combat Example ThingieOK, this is how my best BBEG scenario played out:Party has 'brownie points' (for doing Out of Game stuff like bringing food or having a really good one-liner).  Brownie points are basically action points.Pre-end fight: Smallish dungeon with 3rd level Clerics of Venca, and some treasure they missed.Party: All Level 6-71 Elven Wizard (Blow things up specialist)1 Elven Sorceress (Was a Mindbender, but she didn't do mindbending right.)1 Human Bard (Lots of Cure Potions, so she was a mock-cleric as well)1 Half-Orc Barbarian (Meat + Strength of 22ish before Rage)1 Human Rogue (crazy rogue)1 Dwarf Ranger (Good beats and has a war-dog)VS.1 10/10 Wizard/Cleric of Venca BBEGI pre-buffed him with Haste, Mirror Image, Blur, Stoneskin, Bless.  He has a few instakill spells as well as several 'stall' spells.1 Half Dragon (Black), 14 Ranger (Archer)Just a beatstick and bodyguard to BBEG.1 Human Druid (Evil)Didn't do much...Sooooo.Early rounds:  The BBEG targeted the mage first, knowing her charm spells could affect out the Bodyguard, so he casts an instakill on her first, and succeeds.  She uses brownie point to stay alive instead of dying.The Bodyguard fires his first arrows into Evoker Elf, and wounds him enough to kill him.The Druid gets KOed by a massive beating by the fighters.The party surrounds Bodyguard and pounds the crap out of him.  Evoker and Sorceress get healed by Bard, but lose their initial rounds.Mid Rounds: BBEG casts mass damage spells (anti-good, such as Unholy Blight) and Will Save spells vs. fighters while Bodyguard uses breath weapon on fighters.  Dwarf ranger and rogue goes down during this.  Half orc beats the Bodyguard.  Bard goes around and helps the ranger and rogue while barbarian goes after BBEG.  Many action/brownie points were used to not die.Late rounds involve many Magic Missles by PCs and enough beats on the Stoneskinned, Blurred BBEG relying only on his Unholy Knife +3 because the fighters were too close for him to make a 5ft. adjustment for him to cast.This was a very climatic end fight.  The party barely got out of it alive, and used ALL their action/brownie points.  The biggest, most important thing for BBEGs to do when fighting the last fight (to end the story) is to buff like crazy and have at least 2 bodyguards equal or better than the average party level to balance BBEGs skills out, at least with my EXP.The party unit is much more resourceful than they seem, at least with my group.  Having 5 or greater EL is a good idea for end battles...Of course, my games are on crack, so take my advice with a grain of salt. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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