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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 3374944" data-attributes="member: 35909">First off, how does your "boss" fail to have either a slashing weapon of any kind or a monster strength score?  Failing this, what about spell-casting?  He was a cleric, right?  Even clerics of Kord get spells!  Concentration 15 is fairly easy to make.  I suppose the party probably just readied attacks to shoot him, in which case, good for them!  As you yourself described him, he got exactly what he deserved for facing the entire party head-on without more numbers.  There's nothing horribly broken about Tanglefoot bags.  At low levels, they're pricy,twice as much as a first level spell scroll!  At higher levels, it's just not worth the action in combat to use one.  I suppose for a while, levels ~ 4 - 8, they may be pretty sweet.  So what?Sorry to go on a rant here, but it's still somewhat related to your banning question.  Why are so many people accepting of magic being able to do literally anything, yet balk in disgust when more mundane things are allowed to be cool?  In this case, it's alchemy, something that never even (successfully) existed in real life!  By the flaws you described, wouldn't a casting of ray of enfeeblement (clerics have the touch AC of a barn!) bring him down even more easily, as he had "no strength score"?  How about a handy fireball for a save he'd have no hope of making?  If that insta-killed him, is it ok because it's magic?</blockquote>

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