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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 7016736" data-attributes="member: 6802951">That is a definite option for an end boss battle. However I do not think that its the only option. Its good for creatures like Demons and other might-makes-right creatures where the party will dismantle the organisation as they fight their way in, often get a long rest, and then go confront the BBEG as it makes its last stand alone. For something like that, you want a creature capable of endangering some party members in a solo fight.For a situation like CoS however, where Strahd rules over his minions through personal authority and supernatural influence, he doesn't have to be able to outfight all of his minions at once. Moreover, the final confrontation with Strahd is unlikely to occur with a fully-rested party facing Strahd alone unless Strahd has seriously goofed, or the party has seriously out-thought him. The climactic big-boss battle is more likely to be the desperate party on low resources after fighting their way to the site of the final confrontation against Strahd and allies.Strahd is generally capable of holding his own against a party in that kind of fight. Not at all weird. Vampires are indeed known to be nigh-indestructible - but with severe weaknesses. It would be weirder, I believe, to have a vampire laughing off sunlight and radiant damage from the magical sword prophesied to destroy them. CoS doesn't subvert the standard traits of that monster type at all: it enhances both Strahd's vampire traits of indestructibility and his vampire weaknesses to very specific things.</blockquote>

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