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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Leatherhead" data-source="post: 6973926" data-attributes="member: 53176">Bodaks are a great ally for the Devourer. A Bodak will help kill off any  target trapped in the ribcage with it's AoE, drastically speeding up the turn-around on creating new undead. Also the fact that they are different creature types means that you can't just drop down a Turn Undead to hose the encounter.Don't forget to throw in a bunch of living cultists as well, the Necromancer makes a powerful two-fold ally for the Devourer. Once it goes down (because the PC's will target the Spellcaster first) it can come back as a Wight, healing the Devourer in the process. Cult Fanatics come back as Ghouls, and Regular Cultists come back as zombies, which make for exceptional damage sponges. And everyone that a Devourer eats allows the fiend to shoot off another Soul Rend, making it a particularly nasty siege engine of sorts.For maximum evilness: Consider adding a Skeleton Warhorse to the encounter. You may be asking "Why? Skeleton horses don't have the staying power of a zombie in a high level fight, and thus won't be nearly as useful!" Well the answer is simple. The Skele-horse isn't used to fight, it's used to draw a meat wagon. Tended by other skeletons (preferably armed with bows  to offer a spattering of ranged support) and some Acolytes, the meat wagon is loaded up with some of the recently knocked out victims of the undead horde. These poor captured souls have Spare the Dying cast upon them, so that they stay "Fresh" long enough to be made into a sacrifice for battle, where the Devourer will pop them like the PC's pop potions in a boss fight. This gives the PC's a horrible dilemma, do they kill the captured people themselves to make the fight significantly easier, or do they slowly engage in a war of attrition that may end up killing many of the captured (and possibly themselves) anyway?</blockquote>

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