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<blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 3308194" data-attributes="member: 13703"><p>I ended up using most of the spells that you suggested. The Sorcerer and Cleric combats ended up being 2 seperate combats. The Sorcerer didn't fare so well. Once his meat shields were taken down he went down pretty quickly without much of a fight. He managed to <em>Slow</em> one PC and hot another with <em>Magic Missile</em> but that was about all he did. Getting hit with a <em>Fireball</em> didn't really help him much. He had <em>Stoneskin</em> cast on him but he still didn't have enough hit points to survive more than a couple of hits. I was pretty unsatisfied with the combat but I don't think that it was due to his spell selection.</p><p></p><p>The Cleric fight was a bit more challenging. She dropped an <em>Unholy Blight</em> on most of the party at the start of the combat and managed to survive 2 Fireballs and a Snowball Swarm thanks to Fire and Cold Resistance 10 (she was a Half-Fiendish). She also managed to make all her saves. Unfortunately her allies weren't so lucky and most of them were taken out by the AoE onslaught. Her one down point was missing with her Smite Good attack. This would have done +9 damage and could possibly have killed one PC. In the end she was surrounded by 3 of the PC's and taken out by the Cleric. This was rather fitting as she was a recurring villain that had just escaped the Cleric's grasp last time. I think the fight ended with 2 or 3 PC's in single digit HP's.</p><p></p><p>Olaf the Stout</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Olaf the Stout, post: 3308194, member: 13703"] I ended up using most of the spells that you suggested. The Sorcerer and Cleric combats ended up being 2 seperate combats. The Sorcerer didn't fare so well. Once his meat shields were taken down he went down pretty quickly without much of a fight. He managed to [I]Slow[/I] one PC and hot another with [I]Magic Missile[/I] but that was about all he did. Getting hit with a [I]Fireball[/I] didn't really help him much. He had [I]Stoneskin[/I] cast on him but he still didn't have enough hit points to survive more than a couple of hits. I was pretty unsatisfied with the combat but I don't think that it was due to his spell selection. The Cleric fight was a bit more challenging. She dropped an [I]Unholy Blight[/I] on most of the party at the start of the combat and managed to survive 2 Fireballs and a Snowball Swarm thanks to Fire and Cold Resistance 10 (she was a Half-Fiendish). She also managed to make all her saves. Unfortunately her allies weren't so lucky and most of them were taken out by the AoE onslaught. Her one down point was missing with her Smite Good attack. This would have done +9 damage and could possibly have killed one PC. In the end she was surrounded by 3 of the PC's and taken out by the Cleric. This was rather fitting as she was a recurring villain that had just escaped the Cleric's grasp last time. I think the fight ended with 2 or 3 PC's in single digit HP's. Olaf the Stout [/QUOTE]
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