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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 3211307" data-attributes="member: 5948">D&D gives you all sorts of out-of-the-box options.Cursed mentor has been mentioned (mark of justice could also be handy...), and I suppose crippling/laming/blinding/amputating limbs is also a possibility, though you'll have to explain why the mentor has never been able to get this magically fixed.Other than that, someone mentioned the mentor being a ghost (though you'd want to be a bit careful there - it could be even more overpowering).  How about the mentor being an intelligent magic item?  A brain in a jar?  A really off-the-wall one could be to make the mentor an evil creature that's infected with 'good' lycanthropy - the mentor will only be helpful during the full moon in its hybrid/animal form, and could well be working actively against the PCs the rest of the time.  But is sounds like you've already developed the mentor character and would find it hard to apply any of these ideas retrospectively.  So how about making the mentor do all the drudge work?  Perhaps the location the mentor wants to explore is hideously dangerous and magically unstable - random magic manifestations, planar rifts, etc, etc.  If the mentor has to spend most of his spells warding the party with things like dimensional anchor, protection from energy, and the like just so they can survive, he'll be a lot less dominating (especially if you don't give him too much in the way of destructive magic items).  Perhaps he wants to cast a time-intensive and draining spell like vision, legend lore or the like, and the PCs will have to guard him while he does it.  Or you could even have him cast Contact Other Plane, cheat so that he fails his save, and then make the PCs protect their catatonic/insane mentor in the wilderness for a while...</blockquote>

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