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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 5457704" data-attributes="member: 20323"><p>I DMed a group of 6 players with a very similar role composition actually.</p><p></p><p>Split the party, maybe have two areas they need to access simultaneously.</p><p>Artillery on perches. Even worse if the battle start at range.</p><p>Threaten the back line with lurkers.</p><p>Minions that can absorb opp attacks for standards making the fighter sweat. Or a creature like the Tiefling Shadowblade where taking an opp attack on it makes you blind or something.</p><p>Cover blocking LoS making it harder for swordmage to teleport to rescue allies.</p><p>Sending a monster after the shaman's companion.</p><p>Waves of minions from multiple directions making the wizard and ranger sweat.</p><p>Keep a soldier with marking attacking the ranger but don't make it one of the high value targets (a lower level standard will do).</p><p>Skirmishers that focus on flanking the rogue to return the favor of CA striker damage. A bonus if they have ability to grant CA to other monsters or have other ways to get it themselves.</p><p></p><p>For undead specific stuff...</p><p></p><p>Skull Lord. Nuff said.</p><p>Spectral Tendrils.</p><p>Wraith spawning artifact (when a PC is first bloodied).</p><p>Minions whose powers stack like Hanged Ones.</p><p>Terrain dealing necrotic damage/bolstering necrotic attacks.</p><p>Devices which allow PCs to phase momentarily so they can pursue phasing undead or bypass insubstantial (though it vagrants insubstantial to all other monsters for the PC who is phased/in ghost world). But make some risk like they are or may be weakened when returning to the world. Think ethereal plane. Great if combined with a puzzle.</p><p></p><p>Happy hunting <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=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 5457704, member: 20323"] I DMed a group of 6 players with a very similar role composition actually. Split the party, maybe have two areas they need to access simultaneously. Artillery on perches. Even worse if the battle start at range. Threaten the back line with lurkers. Minions that can absorb opp attacks for standards making the fighter sweat. Or a creature like the Tiefling Shadowblade where taking an opp attack on it makes you blind or something. Cover blocking LoS making it harder for swordmage to teleport to rescue allies. Sending a monster after the shaman's companion. Waves of minions from multiple directions making the wizard and ranger sweat. Keep a soldier with marking attacking the ranger but don't make it one of the high value targets (a lower level standard will do). Skirmishers that focus on flanking the rogue to return the favor of CA striker damage. A bonus if they have ability to grant CA to other monsters or have other ways to get it themselves. For undead specific stuff... Skull Lord. Nuff said. Spectral Tendrils. Wraith spawning artifact (when a PC is first bloodied). Minions whose powers stack like Hanged Ones. Terrain dealing necrotic damage/bolstering necrotic attacks. Devices which allow PCs to phase momentarily so they can pursue phasing undead or bypass insubstantial (though it vagrants insubstantial to all other monsters for the PC who is phased/in ghost world). But make some risk like they are or may be weakened when returning to the world. Think ethereal plane. Great if combined with a puzzle. Happy hunting :) [/QUOTE]
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