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[Krafus]

Maybe Xykon just wants to kill as many high-ranking paladins as he can before being defeated and forced back into his phylactery.

Y'know, Xykon's entrance reminded me a bit of General Grievous in the Clone Wars 2 cartoon, when Grievous smashed through the window into Palpatine's office and proceeded to butcher the guards.

 

[DreadArchon]

In game terms, Xykon is toast. There are over thirty paladins in one room with levels approaching 10 - 13. in some cases. 20+ or not, with the Protection from Evil, (And in some cases in 10' radius due to Holy Swords), spells, stackable divine magic and Lay on Hands, Immuneity to Fear, Immunity to Poison adn the general undead, kill it attitude that paladins have been known to swagger around with, IRL, Xykon becomes a pretty shine in a piece of jewlery.

Of course, that may be the whole point, what better way to distract your enemy than to make them believe they've won.

Mordenkainen's Disjunction. (Or, hell, Gate to summon a Dream Larva, he's high enough in level.)

(Or even Stone Shape to get rid of the floor!)

 

[Someone]

There are at least 40 paladins there. That's around 2000 points of Lay on hands, being conservative, or around 1000 if Xykon makes all the saves and the guard has some means to dispel his Overland flight.

 

[Allegro]

The Sapphire Guards entire existence is based around protecting the thrown. I would assume they would have spent a few hundred years considering exactly how to protect the thrown with called celestials and antimagic fields and the likes. But since they are lawful stupid I expect a Paladin blood bath.

 

[questing gm]

Using sharp ends to wack Xykon isn't going to work very well like Roy...

 

[Kurotowa]

The Sapphire Guards entire existence is based around protecting the thrown. I would assume they would have spent a few hundred years considering exactly how to protect the thrown with called celestials and antimagic fields and the likes. But since they are lawful stupid I expect a Paladin blood bath.

You're assuming a supply of high level characters that hasn't been shown to exist. Lord Shojo had just one court wizard able to cast Teleport, after all.

 

[Jdvn1]

the 2 hooded figures in there could be Miko and Nale.

edit: besides the next book to be released is all about Xykon and Redcloak and their badassitude

Gosh, and I thought I was clever for seeing one cloaked figure and thinking, "Miko's here?!"

 

[Jdvn1]

... Not a single bludgeoning weapon in the lot of them.

(except for Monks' hands, if those are monks)

 

[Voadam]

I like the paladin with the eyepatch in the lower left, a bit of a sad expression there.

 

[Ry]

What's going to be really funny is when he Raises the first two-dozen lower level paladins.