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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fanboy2000" data-source="post: 6382915" data-attributes="member: 19998">FWIW, he's not that much of a recurring villain. As scripted/intended he shows up at the end of Episode One, fights a PC, and goes off with the rest of the raiding party. His appearance in Episode Two is almost entirely up to the DM. In Episode Three, he's one of the Monsters/NPCs you fight in the dungeon and it's assumed you defeat him. The adventure has Eight Episodes. I'm DMing the adventure for my FLGS's Encounters sessions. When I read it in preparing for the adventure, I was livid. I hated it with a blind seething passion typically reserved for Microsoft Products. (Sorry, I had to install Window's 8.1 on my laptop recently, I'm still sore....)Anyways, I talked to a friend about my problems with the adventure. His advice for the Cyanwrath (hate the encounter, love the name..."green-blue wrath" ha ha!) was to establish Cyanwarth as a big bad guy prior to the encounter. So, at least it wouldn't seem so out of the blue (I just go that...) and dumb. So that's what I did. The PCs were coming back from the Mill and I decided that, while they were sneaking, they'd come upon the prisoners from later on being taken to Cyanwrath and we'd have him established. Well, one of the PCs use the fact that they were hiding to take out the guys with the prisoners. This turned into a surprised round, which turned into a full combat. Cyanwrath rolled poorly and was badly damaged when he finally took his turn, where he dropped two PCs to 0 hp. Awesome! The PCs managed to overcome him.But you know what the best part was? They hadn't fulfilled the prisoner mission yet. They used Cyanwrath to fulfill the prisoner mission! Roleplaying him was fun.</blockquote>

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