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<blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 5183743" data-attributes="member: 2">I believe his words were &quot;Do you not even remember all the people whose graves you robbed?&quot; And then Dr. Caldwell stabbed him in the face, which sort of shut down the conversation.I wanted the &quot;guy changing into a werewolf&quot; feeling as this cultist priest invited an agent of his God into him. To do this I used two sets monsters: one set of stats for the cultist priest (a lvl 9 human hexer, I think) and the human minions, and then after they'd died I broke out stats for a lvl 8 solo demon (a bar igura) and three canoloths. Everything else was special effects, except half the damage they'd inflicted on the initial cultist continued on to the bar igura. That seemed fair.I really liked the feel of this, and I'll use it in the future for possessions.I'll note here that the party is now one controller, one leader, two ranged strikers and two melee strikers. Their damage output is prodigious.As a direct or indirect result of the PCs' actions roughly 25K out of 40K people in Bressail escaped before the Imperial Colossus leveled the city. That's pretty good. If they had never found out that Duke Tordon had cowardly fled, the military would have never ordered the gates open, and no one would have found out that the gates were seized by mercenaries until it was too late. Less than 10K people would have escaped in that case. Of course, now many thousands of city folks are unarmed and defenseless in the fields around the city, ripe for corralling by the imperial marines swooping in to deliver the traditional punishment for rebellion. The PCs have urged their friends and family to flee to Mudtunnel. It isn't sexy, but it is defensible.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Piratecat, post: 5183743, member: 2"] I believe his words were "Do you not even remember all the people whose graves you robbed?" And then Dr. Caldwell stabbed him in the face, which sort of shut down the conversation. I wanted the "guy changing into a werewolf" feeling as this cultist priest invited an agent of his God into him. To do this I used two sets monsters: one set of stats for the cultist priest (a lvl 9 human hexer, I think) and the human minions, and then after they'd died I broke out stats for a lvl 8 solo demon (a bar igura) and three canoloths. Everything else was special effects, except half the damage they'd inflicted on the initial cultist continued on to the bar igura. That seemed fair. I really liked the feel of this, and I'll use it in the future for possessions. I'll note here that the party is now one controller, one leader, two ranged strikers and two melee strikers. Their damage output is prodigious. As a direct or indirect result of the PCs' actions roughly 25K out of 40K people in Bressail escaped before the Imperial Colossus leveled the city. That's pretty good. If they had never found out that Duke Tordon had cowardly fled, the military would have never ordered the gates open, and no one would have found out that the gates were seized by mercenaries until it was too late. Less than 10K people would have escaped in that case. Of course, now many thousands of city folks are unarmed and defenseless in the fields around the city, ripe for corralling by the imperial marines swooping in to deliver the traditional punishment for rebellion. The PCs have urged their friends and family to flee to Mudtunnel. It isn't sexy, but it is defensible. [/QUOTE]

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