The Thayan Menace
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A Party Rout With Clout
I had a fairly good session yesterday, but my main villain really stuck it to the party.
Check him out:
Mustapha Xaod, Male Spectral Mage (Mulan) Nec5/Red3: CR 10; Medium undead (incorporeal); HD 8d12; hp 61; Init +6; Spd 30 ft., fly 30 ft. (good); AC 14 (+2 Dex, +2 deflection), touch 14, flat-footed 12; Base Atk +3; Atk / Full Atk +5 melee (paralysis, incorporeal touch); SA paralysis (Fort DC 16); SQ corporeal manipulation, enhanced specialization, item link, madness, specialist defense +2, spell power +1 (casts as 9th level caster), turn resistance (+2), unnatural aura; AL NE; SV Fort +2, Ref +4, Will +8; Str –, Dex 14, Con –, Int 17, Wis 12, Cha 14; for more details on spectral mages, see the Magic of Faerun (pp. 189-190).
Skills: Concentration +13, Craft (Alchemy) +7, Craft (Carpentry) +7, Hide +10, Intimidate +13, Knowledge (Arcana) +14, Knowledge (Religion) +10, Knowledge (Thay) +5, Listen +3, Profession (Mortician) +6, Spellcraft +14, Spot +3.
Feats: Alertness, Blind-Fight, Combat Reflexes, Eschew Materials, Extend Spell, Improved Familiar, Improved Initiative, Scribe Scroll, Sudden Maximize, Tattoo Focus (Necromancy).
Languages: Common, Abyssal, Draconic, Rashemi, Thayan.
Spells Prepared (4/5+1/4+1/4+1/2+1; save DC 13 + spell level): 0 – acid splash, detect magic, prestidigitation, touch of fatigue*; 1st – cause fear*, detect undead, mage armor, ray of enfeeblement* (x3); 2nd – false life*, fog cloud, mage armor (extended), see invisibility, Tasha’s hideous laughter; 3rd – dispel magic, hold person, rage, vampiric touch* (x2); 4th – bestow curse*, enervation*, lesser geas.
Mustapha cast a sudden maximized enervation at Caelin; then paralyzed him, taking him out of the fight.
The spectral mage then cast lesser geas at Isis and told her to kill her entire party. Isis, being a Thayan knight, automatically failed this save and started attacking everyone (beginning with a succesful coup de grace on Caelin). Eventually she was brought down by the remaining three party members.
Kesia was paralyzed by Mustapha and finished off with a vampiric touch coup de grace.
Ra'faz and Zax ran away.
Fortunately, Haffrung was somewhere else for this session.
I guess it's time to think about restructuring the campaign.
I had a fairly good session yesterday, but my main villain really stuck it to the party.
Check him out:
Mustapha Xaod, Male Spectral Mage (Mulan) Nec5/Red3: CR 10; Medium undead (incorporeal); HD 8d12; hp 61; Init +6; Spd 30 ft., fly 30 ft. (good); AC 14 (+2 Dex, +2 deflection), touch 14, flat-footed 12; Base Atk +3; Atk / Full Atk +5 melee (paralysis, incorporeal touch); SA paralysis (Fort DC 16); SQ corporeal manipulation, enhanced specialization, item link, madness, specialist defense +2, spell power +1 (casts as 9th level caster), turn resistance (+2), unnatural aura; AL NE; SV Fort +2, Ref +4, Will +8; Str –, Dex 14, Con –, Int 17, Wis 12, Cha 14; for more details on spectral mages, see the Magic of Faerun (pp. 189-190).
Skills: Concentration +13, Craft (Alchemy) +7, Craft (Carpentry) +7, Hide +10, Intimidate +13, Knowledge (Arcana) +14, Knowledge (Religion) +10, Knowledge (Thay) +5, Listen +3, Profession (Mortician) +6, Spellcraft +14, Spot +3.
Feats: Alertness, Blind-Fight, Combat Reflexes, Eschew Materials, Extend Spell, Improved Familiar, Improved Initiative, Scribe Scroll, Sudden Maximize, Tattoo Focus (Necromancy).
Languages: Common, Abyssal, Draconic, Rashemi, Thayan.
Spells Prepared (4/5+1/4+1/4+1/2+1; save DC 13 + spell level): 0 – acid splash, detect magic, prestidigitation, touch of fatigue*; 1st – cause fear*, detect undead, mage armor, ray of enfeeblement* (x3); 2nd – false life*, fog cloud, mage armor (extended), see invisibility, Tasha’s hideous laughter; 3rd – dispel magic, hold person, rage, vampiric touch* (x2); 4th – bestow curse*, enervation*, lesser geas.
Mustapha cast a sudden maximized enervation at Caelin; then paralyzed him, taking him out of the fight.
The spectral mage then cast lesser geas at Isis and told her to kill her entire party. Isis, being a Thayan knight, automatically failed this save and started attacking everyone (beginning with a succesful coup de grace on Caelin). Eventually she was brought down by the remaining three party members.
Kesia was paralyzed by Mustapha and finished off with a vampiric touch coup de grace.
Ra'faz and Zax ran away.
Fortunately, Haffrung was somewhere else for this session.
I guess it's time to think about restructuring the campaign.
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