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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 909575" data-attributes="member: 1288">Heh.  Remembered one I wanted to mention earlier...King Kalath:  For the record, I'm not sure I remember his name exactly; this was way back when in a 2nd edition campaign.  But it was something like Kalath.  Anyway, King Kalath was...A kobold.Not a big bad fighter kobold either, at least not to start with.  Just a kobold.  Initially, he had a very little faculty with magic, and that was it.  In 3rd edition, he'd probably have begun with only a single wizard level, with maybe another one of fighter or rogue tacked on.Kalath was the leader of an enormous horde of villains--humanoids, mercenaries, undead, even a few demons.  The party laughed their butts off when they first snuck in to HQ and saw Kalath take the podium for the first time.  They killed him with a single arrow shot and moved on.And then he showed up again.  And they killed him.  And he showed up again.  And...You get it.You see, in an earlier campaign set in the same world, the heroes had finally managed to destroy a lich who'd been a major thorn in their sides.  But they didn't get all his servants.  One of those servants, one of the most minor, was Kalath.  And Kalath, after the death of his master, got into the lich's spell books, and tried to use a ritual way over his head to make himself powerful.The result?  Purely by accident, Kalath made himself just about unkillable.  Or rather, he could be killed, easily.  But each time, he'd spontaneously rise from the dead--not as an undead, basically resurrected--and he was now immune to whatever killed him.  Thus, he could be killed by a sword, but only once.  He could be killed by a long fall, but only once.  And so forth.He began as a joke so far as the party was concerned.  By the end of the campaign, he was immune to so much stuff the party had a hell of a time trying to defeat him.The most frustrating thing about this is that I can't for the life of me remember how they finally destroyed him.  I can think of several options I'd left open for them, but I don't recall how they actually did it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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