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Message: <blockquote data-quote="firesnakearies" data-source="post: 4544510" data-attributes="member: 71334">I've really loved aboleths since Night Below in 2nd edition.  That was an awesome boxed set/adventure path.I ran a high-level, high-powered 3.5 game which featured several very tough bosses each in their own dungeon, and my extremely smart, optimizing players pretty much walked all over each of my carefully-crafted villains (an 18th level sorcerer formian queen, a 20th level half-fiend githzerai monk, a high-level barbarian storm giant were-roc, and the like) . . . until they fought the aboleth mastermind.  That fight was a total party wipe, and my players were dumbfounded at how utterly they were destroyed.Aboleths are scary.I'm really intrigued by this new Abolethic Sovereignty faction in the new Forgotten Realms.  I think that Bruce Cordell's new trilogy about them will be awesome, and will be the first Forgotten Realms novels I've bought in quite a few years.</blockquote>