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Message: <blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 6698300" data-attributes="member: 12377">The wizard in our group has established that the somatic component of counterspell is flipping the bird.  ;}To answer your question, I use two techniques:One is to surround the enemy with an overwhelming number of minions at all times. Give the villain a bad@$$ honor guard and fortifications, and he or she can interact with the PCs a LOT without a fight breaking out. Really deadly powers (disintegration rays, for example) also scare players really well. In short make the villain appear SO dangerous that the players, favoring self-preservation, try to AVOID conflict. ...Then, if, after careful planning, they get the villain alone, and gank him hard, it will feel triumphant rather than anticlimactic.Two is to foreshadow my opponent as just having some magical extra-hard-to-kill powers. A lich phylactery or vampire misty escape are some classic examples. 5E has a lot of these actually. Canonically, if you kill an extra planar creature on a different plane, it re-forms on its home plane. Creatures like rakshashas and aboleths explicitly get reborn to harass the players repeatedly. Good times.</blockquote>