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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8661958" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Well, the 17th level Wizard thing was an off the top of my head example, I can’t say exactly how I would run Vecna outside the context of a campaign where I was actually running him. But, like, out of combat I’d probably have him be able to do what I need him to be able to do - I might look at what PC casters are capable of at what levels as a general yardstick, but at the end of the day, he isn’t a PC caster, so his capabilities aren’t going to be bound by the rules for PC casters. In combat, I would most likely run it according to the stat block. Maybe a modified version of the stat block, like if I wanted him to be able to use some spells that aren’t on there or whatever. If he had the chance to prepare for the battle and I wanted to have him do some preparation before hand like pre-casting buff spells or whatever, I’d probably knock a few uses off of some of his combat spells to kind of emulate the fact that he used up some of that juice already. Well, personally I don’t really like that these non-spell magical abilities are exempt from anti-spell features like counterspell, so I would probably house rule them to count as spells for the purpose of these features, except in the case of things like dragons’ breath weapons where it’s obviously a part of the creature’s nature rather than them manipulating the weave or whatever. But that’s kind of dodging the question, so to try to give an answer that I think satisfies the intent of the question, my answer to “would my PC think to do [insert strategy here]?” is pretty much always “if you want them to.” If you suspect you’re going to go up against an NPC that’s resistant to X, I’m totally fine with you recruiting other NPC allies who have unique abilities that get around resistance to X. Seems like smart play, assuming you’ve taken steps to verify your assumptions about your enemy being resistant to X and your potential ally having a way to get around that resistance.</blockquote>

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