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<blockquote data-quote="Geeknamese" data-source="post: 7141916" data-attributes="member: 6785999">It's a tough fight. But a 1-20 campaign ending with a TPK is seems rather a shame. I know that the Lich has been scrying them and watching their tactics but I would, myself, run it with as little metagaming on the DM's part as possible. For instance, he Rogue seemingly so lucky as to barely escape breath weapons in the nick of time. Tymora must love him. I play it that way instead of having the lich know the metagame knowledge that the rogue has evasion so he can escape with a saving throw so I will prepare this for him instead.Secondly, I consider the fun of the game a great story and epic feats and encounters. I don't get any fun out of squashing my PCs and ending a 1-20 campaign that way. So for this Lich, if it's really an obviously TPK encounter, I'd err on being a little lenient upfront and give them a head start. For instance, this is the Inmortal Lich Queen of so and so, the most powerful Mage in the world...well, if that's the case, she might see the PCs as insignificant peons and take them slightly a little too lightly at first then slowly with realization, she starts to amp up the heat. But hey, can't wait to hear what happens <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Sent from my iPhone using EN World</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geeknamese, post: 7141916, member: 6785999"] It's a tough fight. But a 1-20 campaign ending with a TPK is seems rather a shame. I know that the Lich has been scrying them and watching their tactics but I would, myself, run it with as little metagaming on the DM's part as possible. For instance, he Rogue seemingly so lucky as to barely escape breath weapons in the nick of time. Tymora must love him. I play it that way instead of having the lich know the metagame knowledge that the rogue has evasion so he can escape with a saving throw so I will prepare this for him instead. Secondly, I consider the fun of the game a great story and epic feats and encounters. I don't get any fun out of squashing my PCs and ending a 1-20 campaign that way. So for this Lich, if it's really an obviously TPK encounter, I'd err on being a little lenient upfront and give them a head start. For instance, this is the Inmortal Lich Queen of so and so, the most powerful Mage in the world...well, if that's the case, she might see the PCs as insignificant peons and take them slightly a little too lightly at first then slowly with realization, she starts to amp up the heat. But hey, can't wait to hear what happens :) Sent from my iPhone using EN World [/QUOTE]

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