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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 6279762" data-attributes="member: 151">So, I've been running the 4E adventure "The Art of Deception" from Dungeon #217.  I think it's a cracking good adventure, quite honestly I consider it the best adventure I've run under 4E for my group, as it doesn't feel like a fixed carnival ride, but offers the players a lot of freedom to solve a mystery and conspiracy.  For those unfamiliar with it, the basic plot is [spoiler]that three Rakshasas have taken over key positions in a local town to secretly control it, but the players threaten to discover this and reveal it/confront them.[/spoiler]  So based on that, Rakshasas are important to the plot.So I was looking over the 4E Rakshasa and found him perfectly servicable in the versions presented in the module.  One thing I was expecting but never saw was any sort of vulnerability.  This harkened me back to AD&D, when I remember they had a vulnerability to crossbow bolts.  I also remember the episode of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0621537/" target="_blank">Kolchak: The Night Stalker where a rakshasa appeared</a>.  As I was typing this, I quick checked the SRD for 3.5 and realized that version didn't have it, either (heck the 3.5 version has DR 15 good and piercing, which seems the exact opposite of being vulnerable to good crossbow bolts).  I then hit wikipedia for the mythological basis only to discover that really, muco of what I thought I knew about them was EGG streamlining most of their qualities from the Ramayana and Mahabarata.  The vulnerability to crossbow bolts, though, I haven't seen other than a specific killing of one specific Rakshasa.  I'm not even sure where the reverse-hands and felinoid aspects originate from for them.Regardless, I was kind of hoping that 4E's Rakshasas have some form of vulnerability.  My players are coming into conflict with them, but they are otherwise just combatants with a couple of illusory tricks under 4E.  Does anyone have any suggestions for a vulnerability or way to unmask their illusory powers somehow that would be a fun thing to suggest to my players?  I'd like to encourage more than just straight-up punching until he reverts to his natural form.</blockquote>

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