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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caliban" data-source="post: 705229" data-attributes="member: 284">You assume that the target has the best save in every category, has a 30 Con, has a luckstone +5, which does not exist in the core rules, and is immune to his primary school of spells.Sure, if you  cheat you can make something that has a 50/50 chance of living past the first spell.  Bravo. Now try something that's actually in the core rules + FRCS.  LOL.Let's check the MM.Old Blue Dragon, CR 18. +21 Fort Save.  Even with a Ring of Resistance +5, it's dead on anything less than a 19. Great Wyrm Red Dragon, CR 25.  +32 Fort Save, SR of 32.  Add a +5 Ring of Resistance, and it saves on an 8 or better.   The wizard ignores it's Spell Resistance, and still has a 35% chance of killing it with one spell.   Of course, the wizard could soften it up with an Enervation or Energy Drain first, and then use a Save or Die spell.  (This assumes that the dragon doesn't kill the wizard during the first round or two.)   So a creature that is CR 25 might be able to prove a serious challenge for the 18th level wizard.   A creature that is supposed to be a challenge for four 25th level characters.</blockquote>