Rakshasa with Deflect Arrows

[FireLance]

1) If you are talking the 3.5 Rakshasa, it's not immune to all but the highest level spells anymore. It just has an annoyingly high SR.

2) I would think/hope the GM would know better than to slap this on a party that wasn't ready for it.

A combat-focused mage should always pack a couple of offensive Conjuration spells (which ignore SR) to deal with such opponents, or have a backup wand of acid arrow.

 

[MarauderX]

2) I would think/hope the GM would know better than to slap this on a party that wasn't ready for it.

My thought is they shouldn't be aware of it, nor ready for it specifically. They may know a BBEG is around the corner and have a rough idea it's a multi-level caster of some sort, but not necessarily a rakshasa.

Either way, having the party march up to it's lair to end the fight will be a drain on them and then have them face it. Add in Deflect Arrows and the fact that it won't die by a single crossbow bolt (via 3.5, that I am pretty sure the players aren't aware of, but I may houserule it back to 3.0 anyway) and it may be a bit nasty for them. Having already tricked out a tower with traps and other peons to face, it could be a rough journey for them that I will have to re-estimate for the party instead of reigning in the rakshasa's intelligence, abilities, and firepower.

 

[Orius]

Makes sense to me. If blessed crossbow bolts were fatal to me, I would make sure I had every defense available against them.

Damn straight.