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<blockquote data-quote="Marimmar" data-source="post: 252601" data-attributes="member: 1789">Redeeming myself a bit...Before everyone thinks I'm a wimp as DM, here are some things I came up with in one of my campaigns.The party is up against the Cult of the Dragon and those guys are tough. They're fighter types all have mage or cleric support, they all round around with greater magic weaponed arrows. The cult clerics use scrye to find out the party's location and hunt them down, enemy wizards usually haste themselves and cast double empowered lightning bolts. So far it's all pretty balanced since the party's wizard is more occupied with surviving ranged spell and +3 arrow attacks instead of killing the enemy. But this is already lower high-level campaigning where the enemy is well prepared and has lots of resources to draw from.I actually almost destroyed the party with a single cult wizard although the CR only indicated a 25% loss of resources. I ain't proud about it but it's a strong indicator of haste being too powerful because a single high level spell is already powerful but two high level spells can kill off a party.~Marimmar</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marimmar, post: 252601, member: 1789"] [b]Redeeming myself a bit...[/b] Before everyone thinks I'm a wimp as DM, here are some things I came up with in one of my campaigns. The party is up against the Cult of the Dragon and those guys are tough. They're fighter types all have mage or cleric support, they all round around with [i]greater magic weaponed[/i] arrows. The cult clerics use [i]scrye[/i] to find out the party's location and hunt them down, enemy wizards usually [i]haste[/i] themselves and cast double empowered [i]lightning bolts[/i]. So far it's all pretty balanced since the party's wizard is more occupied with surviving ranged spell and +3 arrow attacks instead of killing the enemy. But this is already lower high-level campaigning where the enemy is well prepared and has lots of resources to draw from. I actually almost destroyed the party with a single cult wizard although the CR only indicated a 25% loss of resources. I ain't proud about it but it's a strong indicator of [I]haste[/I] being too powerful because a single high level spell is already powerful but two high level spells can kill off a party. ~Marimmar [/QUOTE]

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