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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nightchilde-2" data-source="post: 1785341" data-attributes="member: 4109">I feel ya.  Man, do I ever.I got a better one for you.  I had a recurring villain plague the PCs for 12 levels before she finally made a move.  She was a very powerful lich, CR 25 (all epic and everything).  The PCs were 15th level.  My *plan* was to have her continue to recur until the PCs caught up with her in level and have an epic final showdown.  She was supposed to (and should have) whupped up on the PCs with this encounter, only to return later to finish the job.  I'd spent over a year (real time) building up just how bad this chickie had become.(I will note at this point that, throug the PCs own cleverness, they had managed to get the lich's phylactery, which she had hidden on the shadow plane INSIDE of her son (who had been turned into a vampire), but they perfectly figured out the clues and found the phylactery).Well, to make a long story short, one of the PCs won initiative and hit her with an arrow of undead slaying.  I rolled a 1 on my save.  The phylactery was destroyed soon after.  1 round, and she was 10 LEVELS higher than the party average.  If she (or her pit fiend bound servant) had had a chance to act, they would have been toast.Stupid clever players..... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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