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<blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 5959611" data-attributes="member: 6669048">She's an 11th level sorcerer with a 30-something Charisma and &quot;Dispel Magic&quot; on her spell list. I'm not worried about that specific spell. It's also the Decanter of Endless Water they want to buy combined with the Bowl of Commanding Water Elementals and spamming Create Water and all the other wacky water-based ideas.This is a 100 year old vampire who's been playing political chess with Strahd von Zarovich for her entire life. She abused the rules on ghost and tried to create vampire-illithads. She's going to have at least three different ways to negate the running water vulnerability assuming they exist. I've got about three hours to work on finding them and the Pearl above is option 1. First, I want to have my legal brief prepared in advance when the table's Rules Lawyer tries to talk me out of it since that's someone ambiguous. Second, I want to find at least two other ways to negate that vulnerability (she has three different ways to survive being in direct sunlight too...the fourth one I passed on was having Gloves of Storing just to keep a massive parasol in). I'm not trying to hamstring the players (they're taking a big players vs. DM attitude about it and leaving me out of their email and Facebook strategy sessions), I'm just trying to present the NPC as a legitimate challenge and play her character. If she knows she can be killed by a piddling 3rd level spell or a combination of 1st and 2nd level spells, she's going to have devoted a good bit of time into getting around it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Abstruse, post: 5959611, member: 6669048"] She's an 11th level sorcerer with a 30-something Charisma and "Dispel Magic" on her spell list. I'm not worried about that specific spell. It's also the Decanter of Endless Water they want to buy combined with the Bowl of Commanding Water Elementals and spamming Create Water and all the other wacky water-based ideas. This is a 100 year old vampire who's been playing political chess with Strahd von Zarovich for her entire life. She abused the rules on ghost and tried to create vampire-illithads. She's [I]going [/I]to have at least three different ways to negate the running water vulnerability assuming they exist. I've got about three hours to work on finding them and the Pearl above is option 1. First, I want to have my legal brief prepared in advance when the table's Rules Lawyer tries to talk me out of it since that's someone ambiguous. Second, I want to find at least two other ways to negate that vulnerability (she has three different ways to survive being in direct sunlight too...the fourth one I passed on was having Gloves of Storing just to keep a massive parasol in). I'm not trying to hamstring the players (they're taking a big players vs. DM attitude about it and leaving me out of their email and Facebook strategy sessions), I'm just trying to present the NPC as a legitimate challenge and play her character. If she knows she can be killed by a piddling 3rd level spell or a combination of 1st and 2nd level spells, she's going to have devoted a good bit of time into getting around it. [/QUOTE]

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