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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 5371312" data-attributes="member: 92511">This is going back a loooong time...but could, kinda be considered a take-off of a tv monster...Tiamat from the D&D cartoon. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I had a group that went to the Abyss, might even have been to face Tiamat or get/take something from her...I don't quite recall why they were there. (It was hundreds of moons ago)ANYwho, they were five "beings" who had been the last party to attack her in her own plane/lair. The battle had gone badly and with a wish spell the party sorceress (plain ole "MU" back then). In the critical final moment, last one standing, she wished "each party member had the power to face Tiamat."The wish was granted but, she had failed to say she wanted them "to DEFEAT Tiamat."So, they were each transformed into elemental incarnations of Tiamat's breath weapons. Individually, incredibly powerful and together a truly horrific force. But even with "A" power each, even collectively, they could not defeat the Dragon Queen and fell under her thrall.These five were returned to the Prime Material and sought out/destroyed any who would seek to gain access to Tiamat's Lair.I don't have stat specifics, but I'm sure you can work out some fun stuff based on the following:The fighter/leader gained the power of the Blue. A humanoid being of electrical energy. He could summon a long sword of pure lightning, hurl lightning bolts, force fields, fly (his lower-half becoming lightning, like Black Vulcan from the Superfriends. lol.), shocking grasp all day if he wanted to. Transform into pure lightning for teleportation-like movement.The rogue gained the power of the Green. She maintained a green-hued gaseous form. Capable of generating stinking clouds, cloudkills, flight, walls of (chlorine) "fog", solid (chlorine) fog and shifting her appearance, well did I mention the gaseous form? Kinda hard to pin down.A half-elf ranger was transformed with the power of the White. He had a "Frost Brand" style spear that could shoot shards of ice, cones of cold, superhard ice-body/armor (like Iceman from the X-men) flight on the cyclone of arctic winds that composed his lower half and ice storms.Another character gained the powers of the Black. Able to assume liquid (acidic) form. Throw balls of acid or create a rain-like area effect of the stuff. Create a "wall of sticking cloud" with the acidic fumes or a raising walls of actual acid to dissolve incoming attacks.And the poor elvin wizardess, who thought she had the trump card and cursed her party and herself for eternity, gained the power of the Red. A form of pure fire. Flight, walls of fire, pyrotechnics, fireballs as the day is long (20d6, as most of their main offensive abilities were, as I recall), etc. etc.Practically all of their powers except their "big guns" were at will. MY group had run-ins with each of them, individually or in pairs, over a long span of time. When each battle was going badly, the villains would retreat in such a manner that following was not really an option. A couple they ran into more than once. When my party finally got to Tiamat's level on the Abyss (many quests later), they faced all 5 at once.They were very very tough to beat. But I'd never seen my group so proud of themselves to defeat a (collective) "Big Bad" before. There was much cheering and rejoicing and, I daresay, the players thoroughly enjoyed them as villains. They had colorful nicknames for them: "that Fire Chick", "the Lightning Dude", there were others...more "colorful."     They were good fun...Gods, I haven't thought of them in years!Thanks.--SD</blockquote>

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