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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Synchronicity" data-source="post: 4869679" data-attributes="member: 10070">Last Thursday, we had the final session of our War of the Burning Sky game. Most of the session was taken up battling Leska at the Heart of History. The fight against Leska took three hours. And my players loved it. They loved that she felt like a dangerous spellcasting bad guy, but that she didn't try for cheap wins with 'save or you're screwed' spells. She just kicked out enough damage to have a five-person party on the back foot for almost the entire fight. We use alternate death and dying rules while makes it damn hard to actually kill PCs, so I adjusted her spell list to use some Spell Compendium spells. This isn't something I'd recommend if you're using standard rules even without enhancement, she's quite capable of killing the entire party.It was also the largest, most involved fight with a last boss I've ever had to run, and I've run the final bosses of both Age of Worms and Savage Tide. At the start of the fight I sat down, scanned her buffs, looked at how many spell effects she'd have running and for one moment thought 'This is too much. I can't do this.' After that panic-stricken thought, I took it one thing at a time, and it seemed to go ok. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />For an example of the amount of work required, my notes on Leska's turn looked like this;1. Check for adjacent enemies. DC 33 Ref or 10d6 electricity. [no action]2. Throw 2x5d6 lightning bolts, DC 33 Ref. [free action](Both of the above effects are from the lightning ring SC spell.)3. Attack with mage's sword.4. Desertion of the Blade. Will save.5. Move ball lightning [move action] (Another SC spell)6. Cast quickened spell7. Cast quickened spell8. Cast quickened spell9. Take standard actionIt was a hell of a lot of work. But I'm glad I did it.So, in short, kudos to the writers of WotBS. The quality was great all the way through, and Leska's the most memorable final foe that my players have seen in quite a while. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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