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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DaveStebbins" data-source="post: 1701418" data-attributes="member: 1427">Give the creature a damage reduction which the PCs can't bypass without help from the pixies. The pixies know the creature's weakness, but aren't strong enough to exploit it without the PCs, and the PCs can wail on the creature all day without doing much damage, unless aided by the pixies. Give it DR 10/pixie dust or something. That way, if the PCs charge into a battle and finally realize they're doing squat, they can try to back out to the pixies to get their weapons dusted. The pixie dust duration should be short, minutes at most. Don't allow the PCs to move around all day pre-dusted, it should be something they do just before the battle (if they do well enough to find the creature), or they have to spend time during the battle to do it (if the creature finds them). Spellcasters covered with pixie dust would have a +10 to beat the creature's SR (SR 21 or so), so they might get a spell in once in a while on their own, but should usually get past SR with pixie help.  The foreshadowing thing can be great. I once had low-level PCs travelling through a swamp. They heard a loud and nasty battle a short ways away. Even though it wasn't far, by the time they got there, all that was left was the body of a huge spider which had been torn apart. That night, they heard the bog wump circling their camp in the bushes, beyond the range of their sight and quiet enough that they could never pinpoint it. The players were going crazy trying to decide what to do. Finally, since it didn't attack them, they decided not to go looking for trouble. It was an uncharacteristically smart choice. They never did meet the bog wump, but after the climactic encounter, when it looked like the BBEG had fled and gotten away after they beat him and his underlings up pretty good, they found his body outside, his face frozen in a look of terror. Knowing they had forced him to flee and seeing that the bog wump had finished him off the players started high-fiving, then they had the PCs get out of there as quickly as they could. -Dave</blockquote>

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